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“I have become God”: Trevor Schmidt’s thriller Monstress premieres at Northern Light, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You enter the Studio Theatre through fog, and discover you’re in a mysterious chamber, glowing with jewelled colours and overhung with dozens of scissors, blades pointing down at us. The centrepiece, a slab that might be … Continue reading
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In a staccato barrage of scenes, a star is born: The Two Battles of Francis Pegahmagabow at Shadow Theatre, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the opening moments of Neil Grahn’s The Two Battles of Francis Pegahmagabow, to the strains of Rule Britannia, a top soldier is getting a military medal from the Prince of Wales. Seconds later, as Francis … Continue reading
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Who’s the real monster? Monstress, a new Trevor Schmidt thriller, launches the Northern Light season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Trevor Schmidt calls his latest play, launching the Northern Light Theatre season Friday, “my Lady Frankenstein show.” Playwright Schmidt, NLT’s long-time artistic director, has long been fascinated by the female perspective, female windows on the world, … Continue reading
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The Two Battles of Francis Pegahmagabow, a new World War I play by Neil Grahn, premieres at Shadow Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca He was “arguably the greatest soldier this country has ever produced,” as playwright Neil Grahn puts it. “And nobody knows his name….” Grahn’s new play The Two Battles of Francis Pegahmagabow, premiering Thursday to open the … Continue reading
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Heartbreaking and funny, Stars On Her Shoulders premieres at Workshop West. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Every once in a while you find yourself in the theatre fully absorbed in a world that’s both distant and utterly close at hand. And you laugh through tears. It happened for me at Workshop West … Continue reading
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Lethal power games as performance art: The Maids introduces a new indie theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s something exactly right about entering the theatre through an unmarked door, down the stairs and into a space that invites reinvention and expands before your very eyes. It’s a world ready and waiting for actors … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton indie theatre, Edmonton theatre, Jean Genet, Pendennis Building, Putrid Brat, U of A drama department
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Playwright Stephen Massicotte talks about Stars On Her Shoulders, his latest, premiering at Workshop West
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In 2002, a story of first love, a dreamscape looped against the horrific backdrop of World War I, changed the life of the graphic designer-turned-actor who’d “jumped into theatre cold.” as he puts it. Since its … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta Theatre Projects, Edmonton theatre, Mary's Wedding, Stephen Massicotte, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, World War I history
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Two actors, a passion, and a mission: Jean Genet’s The Maids, three years in the making, opens downtown
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the chiller of a play that opens October 25 in an eerie downtown basement, you’ll watch two sisters act out a dangerous, nerve-wracking, possibly lethal, role-playing game with each other — in a theatre of … Continue reading
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Bear Grease: an Indigenous makeover for the classic musical, at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Call it cosmic inevitability if you will. Or maybe an irresistibly cool idea whose time is overdue. But some shows can’t not be born. Bear Grease, the hit Indigenous makeover of that classic 1972 musical that … Continue reading
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Don’t look now, but who’s that behind you? The Woman in Black, at Teatro Live! A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Have sympathy for your audience!” roars The Actor (Geoffrey Simon Brown) emphatically at the start of The Woman In Black, the hit thriller that launches the Teatro Live! season at the Varscona. “Draw on your emotions … Continue reading
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