Category Archives: Previews

Clowning around … online: the 5th annual Play The Fool Fest goes digital

Posted on September 24, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Clowns work as well as aspirin, but twice as fast.” –Groucho Marx And for the major migraine that is COVID, it’s high time we had some. Clowns, that is. The only thing is, clowns thrive on real … Continue reading →

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Scenes From The Sidewalk: from the Plain Janes, a cabaret that turns theatre inside out

Posted on September 23, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Alienation 2020. The world seems upside down and inside out to you — and why wouldn’t it?. The laws of gravity have been cancelled. You’re either inside looking out (wistfully) or outside looking in (wistfully); no … Continue reading →

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Gordon’s Big Bald Head infiltrates movie history in Good Head, at the Grindstone

Posted on September 22, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca They are smart. And they are funny. But there is nothing cautious, or predictable, or even sane about the entertainment proposition that the deluxe improv troupe Gordon’s Big Bald Head offers the world. They own a … Continue reading →

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All That Binds Us: a new Azimuth Theatre creation ponders connection in a fragmented world

Posted on September 21, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Here’s a thought with special reverb in a world of fragmentation, enforced distance, separation, isolation: “People don’t want perfection; they want connection,” declares Reneltta Arluk, director of All That Binds Us, premiering Friday in a live … Continue reading →

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Look up! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s an opera singer on the roof: drive-in opera and other experiments from Edmonton Opera

Posted on September 17, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The thrill of live: it’s undeniable, yes, both for artists and their audiences who thrive on connection, the charge of closeness, of being part of a gathering. If we hadn’t fully realized it before, by default … Continue reading →

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Good Women Dance Collective launches a new season

Posted on September 16, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca They leap effortlessly across the frontier between dance and theatre as if it didn’t exist.  They’re into sharing; unusual musical and theatrical partnerships are their signature. At the centre of the new Good Women Dance Collective … Continue reading →

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Dance inspired by stage design: Mile Zero Dance’s season-opener is an experimental cabaret

Posted on September 11, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a sassy what-if? streak in the Mile Zero Dance DNA. And you’ll see it in action Saturday night in a new way when the new MZD digital season, De-Program, comes to life on Zoom. What … Continue reading →

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Impossible? EDMONten, a showcase of full-length 10-minute plays

Posted on September 8, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If we didn’t know it before, we do now, after six months of theatre trying hard and being ingenious on screen, size isn’t everything. (And as for duration, haven’t you asked yourself what’s happened to your … Continue reading →

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Playing With Fire: the Mayfield straps on the blades, live, with the Theo Fleury story

Posted on September 3, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The show that skates (really!) onto the Mayfield Dinner Theatre stage next week — live — is the story of a small-town prairie boy from a neglectful and chaotic family, who makes a big life-changing discovery. … Continue reading →

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We’ll meet again: Melanie Gall returns to active duty in her Vera Lynn show

Posted on August 28, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In her TV address of April, when Queen Elizabeth encouraged the British people to be strong and stay resolute in a new kind of Blitz, she was invoking the spirit of the wartime 40s — and … Continue reading →

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