Author Archives: Liz Nicholls

Battle of the bone hunters: The Bone Wars is Punctuate!’s biggest show yet

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Bone Wars wasn’t always going to be theatre for grown-ups to take kids to. Far from it.    Punctuate! Theatre, after all, got its raison d’être, and exclamation point, tackling plays about the conflicted descendants … Continue reading →

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Cinderella: the Prince is having a ball! and also an election. A review

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Cinderella has always been the poster girl for the poor but upwardly mobile. Bide your time, miserable lackey: your dreams can come true. Karma’s on your side, long-term, if you’re oppressed by snarly step-relatives and a … Continue reading →

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Chris Craddock talks about Irma Voth: novel, theatre, and film meet onstage

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Naturally playwright/ actor/ master improviser/ filmmaker/ screenwriter/ “double-dad” Chris Craddock is relaxed at pre-12-hour rehearsal breakfast in Strathcona last week. Why wouldn’t he be? Surely, his life of late is a flat landscape of non-eventful tranquillity … Continue reading →

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The end of the line in Dublin by night: the poetry of Mark O’Rowe’s Terminus

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Irish triptych: Three brick gangways, with the sinister look of  autopsy slabs waiting for a body, up against three brick walls that tip forward and loom. Eerie industrial white noise as static in a dark theatre. … Continue reading →

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The resurrection of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Mayfield: a review

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a diverse T-shirt and jean crowd that drifts onto the Mayfield stage at the start of Jesus Christ Superstar. There’s even a swaggering older dude in a suit who strides in, and looks slightly sinister … Continue reading →

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Get your Fairy Godmother on the case: Cinderella is coming to town

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight. ca “Impossible, for a plain yellow pumpkin to become a golden carriage./ Impossible, for a plain country bumpkin and a prince to join in marriage….”  Impossible? Well, hang on … actually, there is a precedent. And you’ll see … Continue reading →

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Wanna tour night-time Dublin? Terminus takes us on a “metaphysical odyssey”

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Good storytelling isn’t just telling,” says director Jim Guedo. “A good storyteller makes you feel it’s happening in the present…. It’s in the now.”  And that ‘now’ gets darker, stranger, more brutal in the fantastical urban … Continue reading →

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9 parts of desire: a review of The Maggie Tree production

Posted on April 9, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca War can be survived (humans are extraordinarily resilient). But the experience can never be un-experienced. You’ll be carrying that thought with you out of the theatre when you see 9 Parts of Desire, the remarkable documentary/play … Continue reading →

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How Peter Pan got his groove: Peter and the Starcatcher at the Citadel

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “To have faith is to have wings,” declares says the earnest little smarty-pants Molly (Andrea Rankin) to a gaggle of skeptical onlookers in Peter and the Starcatcher. Faith, that is to say, in the theatre and … Continue reading →

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La Raccourcie: a father/son confrontation at L’UniThéâtre

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There are mysteries at the heart of La Raccourcie, the 1991 two-hander by Quebec writer Jean-Rock Gaudreault that opens at L’UniThéâtre this week, in French with English surtitles. It’s a father-son confrontation in the woods that … Continue reading →

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