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Category Archives: Fringe 2017
Fringe guest review: Beau and Aero: Crash Landing
Beau & Aero: Crash Landing (Stage 3, Walterdale Theatre) by Todd Babiak An airplane crashes on the stage. Beau (David Cantor) helps his co-pilot Aero (Amica Hunter) to her feet and they do what any incompetent aviators would do. They … Continue reading
Posted in Fringe 2017
Tagged 12thnight.ca, A Little Bit Off, Beau and Aero, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Todd Babiak
Fringe review: Legoland
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Legoland (Stage 36, L’UniThéâtre) In this oddball, highly entertaining comedy by Victoria’s Jacob Richmond — which predates another oddball, highly entertaining Richmond, Ride The Cyclone — we meet the Lambs, two precocious home-schooled siblings from the … Continue reading
Jean-Paul Sartre makes his Fringe debut: a review of No Exit
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca No Exit (Stage 12, Varscona Theatre) In one way it’s the ne plus ultra of roommate plays: remember those completely incompatible losers you were trapped with for a whole term who are probably in jail by … Continue reading
Fringe review: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Effect of Gamma Rays On Man In The Moon Marigolds (Stage 3, Walterdale Theatre) At the centre of this ‘60s play (and 1971 Pulitzer Prize winner) by the American writer Paul Zindel, is a mom … Continue reading
Fringe review: The Superhero Who Loved Me
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Superhero Who Loved Me (Stage 28, The Playhouse) “Nobody expects an extra-dimensional portal to open in the world.” Generally true. And nobody expects to go home with a superhero, drink too much vino, and hear … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Blarney Productions, Chris Craddock, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Edmonton theatre, Wayne Paquette
Fringe review: The Apple Tree
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Apple Tree (Stage 12, Varscona Theatre) Contrary to popular Fringe belief, God is not a Scottish drag queen. He’s a man in a natty white suit, who lets there be light and then immediately repairs … Continue reading
Fringe review: My Love Lies Frozen In The Ice
My Love Lies Frozen in the Ice (Stage 3, Walterdale Theatre) by Todd Babiak Of all the stories to bring to life on a small stage consider this one: it is 1897 and Salomon Andrée is off to the North … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Dead Rabbits Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Todd Babiak
Romeo and Juliet … A Fringe review by Marc Horton
Romeo and Juliet: The greatest love story ever to be misunderstood in a junior high English class, mildly redeemed by Leonardo DiCaprio before finally coalescing upon middle aged reflection of a passionate early adulthood mistake (Stage 1, Westbury Theatre) By … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Edmonton theatre, Jake Hastey, Romeo and Juliet, Toy Guns Dance Theatre
The Exquisite Hour: a 12thnight.ca Fringe review by Todd Babiak
By Todd Babiak The Exquisite Hour (Stage 12, Varscona Theatre) Stewart Lemoine has written wilder comedies, with more intricate plots. His dialogue is sometimes more sparkling, more self-consciously ingenious. In other Lemoine plays, there are more laugh-out loud scenes. Lemoine … Continue reading
Posted in Fringe 2017
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Edmonton theatre, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro La Quindicina
