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Review: To Be Moved
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “What’s one thing you couldn’t live without?” Anna (Zoe Glassman) asks Jeff (Kristian Stec) as their attraction blossoms before our very eyes — and ears. “Music!” he says instantly. Jeff is in the right show. There … Continue reading
Posted in Fringe 2017
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Braydon Dowler Coltman, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Edmonton theatre
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Random thoughts for your Edmonton Fringe adventure
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hard to imagine now, but there was a time (I’m pretty sure) when this fair hinterland burg was Fringe-free, Strathcona had greasy spoons and parking spaces, and theatre companies didn’t have names like SquirrelSuit, Moose Bite, … Continue reading
Posted in Fringe 2017
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bash'd: A Gay Rap Opera, Campus Saint-Jean Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Festival, French Quarter, Ghostwriter Theatre, Gordon's Big Bald Head, La Cité francophone, magic shows, Orson Welles
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Fringe review: Blood Countess
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Blood Countess (Stage 9, Telus Phone Museum) A whispering campaign echoes in the darkness in the atmospheric opening moments of Blood Countess. “Countess Dracula” the voices hiss. “The Countess is a witch!” Candles flicker across the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Blood Countess, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Elizabeth Bathory, Sharon Nowlan
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Fringe review: Wooster Sauce
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Wooster Sauce (Stage 14, Holy Trinity Anglican Church) “Now, touching this business of old Jeeves — my man, you know….” With this, Fringe veteran John D. Huston — in just the sort of spiffing white dinner jacket … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bertie Wooster, Edmonton Fringe, Jeeves, John D. Huston, Kenneth Brown, P.G. Wodehouse, Wooster Sauce
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Fringe review: Fruit Flies Like A Banana
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Fruit Flies Like A Banana (Stage 37, Suzanne Thibadeau Auditorium0 “Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.” This epigrammatic wisdom sets the tone for an exuberant show in which classical music goes rollerskating, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Festival, The Fourth Wall
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Fringe review: Shadowlands
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Shadowlands (Stage 5, King Edward Elementary School) This odd, enigmatic, ambitious little play by and starring Edmonton artist Savanna Harvey takes us behind the scenes (so to speak) in Life: life at the cellular level, life before … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Savanna Harvey
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Review: The Ballad of Frank Allen
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Ballad of Frank Allen (Stage 13, Old Strathcona Public Library) In the international register of theatre premises (small-cast musical comedy division), here’s an entry that should get its own citation: what if a tiny man lived … Continue reading
Posted in Fringe 2017
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Al LaFrance, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Fringe comedy, Shane Adamczak, Weeping Spoon Productions
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Fringe review: Picnics at the Asylum
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Picnics at the Asylum (Stage 9, Telus Phone Museum) The eccentric character who gets conjured in this personal memoir is loud, colourful, fun-loving, generous with his affections. He loves his kids; they adore him. He sings … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela L. Neff, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Fringe solo shows, Stella Productions
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