Category Archives: Previews

‘Just write your truth’: Songs To No One, a new audio song cycle from Dammitammy Productions

Posted on May 25, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In one way, of course, it’s been a suffocating year for artists. In another, an invitation to unusual breakout pathways of creativity. “It feels like I’m holding my breath,” Chariz Faulmino sings in the Rebecca Merkley … Continue reading →

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The journey of the outsider: The Ugly Duchess, streaming finale of the Northern Light Theatre season

Posted on May 19, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “That night I dreamt of the faraway land where the ugly women are loved by the blind men, the men that were the pincushions of cupid’s arrows….” The Ugly Duchess by Janet Munsil Direct to you from … Continue reading →

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Concrete Theatre’s Sprouts Festival grows new plays, online

Posted on May 16, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Edmonton’s Concrete Theatre, a company with a national profile in theatre-for-young-audiences, is into its mid-30s with a new pair of co-artistic directors — and in this strange pandemic time, the need to re-invent one of its … Continue reading →

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To be or not to be: Hamlet served six ways, from Thou Art Here Theatre

Posted on May 12, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The time is out of joint (I think we can all agree with Prince of Denmark on that). Isolating, infuriating, anxiety-making, rippling with hints of mortality and “the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh … Continue reading →

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New plays for big stages: Collider, the Citadel’s debut play development festival

Posted on May 6, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Line most often heard from Canadian theatre producers by playwrights labouring on new scripts. “Great, but could you make it smaller? How about three actors, better yet two, instead of five?” If ‘think small’ is the … Continue reading →

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Follow the ‘once upon a time’ through the fairy tale world: The Secret in the Wings at Studio Theatre

Posted on April 28, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Don’t let the ‘happily-ever-after’s fool you. Fairy tales are not, contrary to popular belief, a Disney invention, the have-a-great-life tag to rom-coms on a roll. The production that opens today online, in the Studio Theatre season,  … Continue reading →

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Transformations: what would it take to change the world? Catalyst Theatre enlisted three artists to ask the question

Posted on April 21, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “When you sign ‘new’ it means ‘to grow’.” — Chris Dodd, The Transformers: Regrowth Can something positive, something transforming emerge from a year of devastation? To imagine a better future for the world, who better to consult … Continue reading →

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A relationship between the lines: Something Unspoken, streamed by Northern Light Theatre

Posted on April 14, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It’s just that I feel that there’s something unspoken between us that ought to be spoken….” — Something Unspoken, Tennessee Williams         The 1950s Tennessee Williams one-act play that opens online Friday — the … Continue reading →

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Bonfire: the festival of new and flammable improv ideas, from Rapid Fire Theatre

Posted on April 6, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca How crazy is this? What if … you were quarantined in a room, and you had to improvise all by yourself — for an entire show? And you didn’t know whether anyone was watching or not? … Continue reading →

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Unwrapping an adventure: La Boîte Sensorielle delivers a box to your place

Posted on April 3, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Life can be full of surprises. You, my friend, are going to get a mysterious package delivered to your door. It’s wrapped; it has your name on it. But you mustn’t open it until  showtime a … Continue reading →

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