Author Archives: Liz Nicholls

Concrete plans for a big upcoming season

Posted on May 12, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s no coincidence that the most influential and travelled show in Concrete Theatre history has a title with a question mark: Are We There Yet?. For the 28-year-old Edmonton theatre, devoted to exploring the thorniest social … Continue reading →

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Dungeons and Dragons, and other theatrical matters

Posted on May 11, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Nerd Alert: Saturday is Dungeons & Dragons night at Rapid Fire Theatre. Actually, every Saturday in May is Dungeons & Dragons night at Rapid Fire Theatre. Mark Meer, a veritable scholar of nerd-ly arcana, game theory … Continue reading →

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The Virgin, The Whore, Something In between: Northern Light announces a new season

Posted on May 10, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Next season Northern Light Theatre and L’UniThéâtre will share the premiere of a new play by Edmonton’s Cat Walsh, a playwright who specializes in the dark-unto-macabre end of the comedy spectrum. Trevor Schmidt’s production of Do … Continue reading →

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The Shadow knows: Collin Doyle’s Slumberland Motel premieres next season

Posted on May 9, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Stellar news for Edmonton theatre-goers! After 11 years of being an “exciting prospect,” Collin Doyle’s long-awaited Slumberland Motel will actually arrive on stage next season — at Shadow Theatre. Billed as “a road-weary comedy,” the 2006 … Continue reading →

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The two person, six gun, many power ballad musical: Bonnie and Clyde at Northern Light: a review

Posted on May 7, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Northern Light Theatre director/designer Trevor Schmidt is something of a wizard of witty theatrical transformations. With Bonnie & Clyde the two person six-gun musical, the Northern Light season finale, his proven ingenuity has a double challenge. … Continue reading →

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Hey, emerging audience! it’s a weekend to go out to the theatre

Posted on May 6, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s always anticipation in theatre, as there should be, about  “emerging” playwrights, directors, actors. There are whole festivals devoted to them, like the upcoming 2017 edition of Nextfest. Leave aside for another day the tricky question … Continue reading →

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Two people, 6 guns, a lot of music: meet the young stars of Bonnie and Clyde

Posted on May 3, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca We know them as historical celebrities, the bank robber stars of a Depression Era crime spree who made a spectacular exit from the world in a bullet-riddled Ford in 1934. But in the “two person six-gun” … Continue reading →

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Art: is the price right? A review of the Shadow season finale

Posted on May 1, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The centrepiece of Art, the Shadow Theatre season finale, is the quintessential modern provocation/sight gag: a big-ticket white-on-white painting by someone famous. “Modern art” is a perennially combustible subject. Trust me, you can’t be a reviewer … Continue reading →

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Prima viene la famiglia! Farren Timoteo’s Made In Italy, a review

Posted on April 30, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The centrepiece of Made In Italy is a long wooden dining room table. In the course of the funny, touching, many-character solo play by Farren Timoteo, its agile creator and star will sit behind it and … Continue reading →

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Keep making sense: Sense and Sensibility at the Citadel, a review

Posted on April 28, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the Citadel of an evening, you can overhear talk of annual incomes, real estate and mortgages, annuities and entailments, wills and estates, pre-nups. And, of course, renos.  And no, gentle reader, it isn’t in the … Continue reading →

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