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“Have you milked the mammoth?” Thornton Wilder’s The Skin Of Our Teeth, the wildest play of the season. A preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The weirdest, wildest play of the season — let’s be bold and call it in advance — is opening tonight on the Varscona stage. It’s not new, though it feels like it might be. The Skin … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bright Young Things, Dave Horak, Edmonton indie theatre, Edmonton theatre, Thornton Wilder, Varscona Theatre, Varscona Theatre Ensemble
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Bed and Breakfast: a hit comedy to open the Theatre Network season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The theatre repertoire has a fulsome measure of stories about gay kids who pull up stakes in their small-town lives and flee to freedom in the big city. In the hit Canadian comedy that opens at … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Blyth Festival, Canadian comedy, Edmonton theatre, Mark Crawford, Roxy on Gateway, Theatre Network
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Three Ladies: a ‘journey of healing’ to open the Fringe “Off Season”
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You might flee violence. But you can never escape trauma, says Lady Vanessa Cardona. The damages linger, and infiltrate your life, your relationships, your identity. “Trauma lives in the body.” Three Ladies, a new and intricate … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Fringe Theatre Off-Season, Remix The Ritual, spoken word poetry
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From the Fringe to Tudor-mania in the big wide world (via E-Town). Meet the creators of Six
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe, there were 3,398 shows. Only one of them continues to play to sold-out houses in the West End, and opens on Broadway in March. That would be Six The Musical, the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway musicals, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe, Edmonton theatre, Six the musical
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“Embrace your weirdness”: the world as seen by Girl Brain, coming to the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Overheard out in the real world — a cafe maybe, or a wine bar: Three women at the next table are laughing uproariously. “That’s a sketch!” floats your way through the air, like a winged mantra. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton comedy, Edmonton theatre, Girl Brain, House Series, Roxy Performance Series, sketch comedy
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What to see this weekend on E-town stages (don’t stay home)
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Time (a possible paradox). There’s never enough of it. It never stands still. It’s almost impossible to make a dent in it. You can move forward through it, but are you actually standing still? The show … Continue reading
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Tagged CUE, Edmonton theatre, Grand Poney, La Cité francophone, Mile Zero Dance, Nicole Moeller, Northern Light Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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The Particulars: the invasion of the minutiae. Punctuate! is back in town
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Poor Gordon. He has a complicated problem. His life, an infestation of minutiae moment to moment, is driving him crazy. Especially at night. The scratching of vermin in the walls. The chewing of insects in his … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Matthew MacKenzie, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, The Theatre Centre
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Crime plays: The Ballad of Peachtree Rose, a new thriller from Nicole Moeller, opens the Workshop West season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Who are the monsters?” That’s what playwright Nicole Moeller wonders. It’s what she’s always drawn to wonder in her plays, and the answer is never clear-cut. She asks again in the new high-speed thriller that premieres … Continue reading
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Tagged 12tnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Nicole Moeller, true crime, Vern Thiessen, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Writing for women of a certain age: meet Jen Silverman, the author of The Roommate
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Jen Silverman is the New York-based playwright/ screenwriter/ novelist who wrote the comedy The Roommate. Last produced at Chicago’s Steppenwolf in 2018, it’s the season-opener at Shadow Theatre. She made time in her schedule for some … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Jen Silverman, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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