Category Archives: Previews

It’s beginning to look a lot like …

Posted on December 3, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s mistletoe, a tree, and an against-the-odds nerd romance in the delightful holiday show currently running at the Citadel.  Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, has taken the initiative on seasonal entertainments, by transplanting us in the evergreen … Continue reading →

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Is history spinning forwards or backwards? Shows at Studio and MacEwan wonder about that

Posted on November 29, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It is a disconcertingly à propos moment in the space-time continuum for both the plays opening this week at Edmonton’s biggest theatre schools. You can easily make yourself dizzy wondering whether history is catapulting forward or … Continue reading →

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“The elephant in the room is … an elephant.” Conni Massing’s Matara opens the Workshop West season

Posted on November 29, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca That not one but two new plays by Conni Massing are premiering this season is noteworthy. That they open a  mere two weeks apart, the work of two different theatre companies, is more striking still.    … Continue reading →

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“My first happy play…” Nancy McAlear makes her Citadel directing debut with Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley

Posted on November 22, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It makes me … happy,” says Nancy McAlear, with a tiny hesitation and a smile of musing wonder — maybe about using that word.  Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, the larky romantic comedy of the holiday … Continue reading →

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Happy hour from Bright Young Things: meet the stars of Fallen Angels

Posted on November 22, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “My mind is a mass of corruption,” Noel Coward told the Evening Standard in 1925. “England’s solid-gold jazz baby,” as his biographer John Lahr described him, was responding to the selection of epithets dusted off by … Continue reading →

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The forgotten sister comes into her own: meet Mikaela Davies, star of Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley

Posted on November 21, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I grew up with the kindest, cleverest, and most beautiful elder sisters in the country; and with the loudest, silliest, and prettiest younger sisters in the country,” says Mary, in the romantic comedy that brings a … Continue reading →

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Enter smiling, glass in hand: the Varscona Theatre Ensemble season begins with Fallen Angels

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the effervescent 1924 comedy that opens Thursday on the Varscona stage, you will see two married women, bored with contentment and longing for passion, restore the zing of excitement to their lives. They levitate into … Continue reading →

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If you could live forever… Tuck Everlasting the musical at St. Albert Children’s Theatre

Posted on November 17, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If “the music!” is the answer, what is the question? It seems wise to consult musical theatre experts. Janice Flower and Jackie Pooke, director/artistic director and choreographer respectively, are on the phone explaining their attraction to … Continue reading →

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What A Young Wife Ought To Know: a 20s love story with a modern reverb opens the Theatre Network season:

Posted on November 14, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Ladies, you’ve come by it, have you? Can I ask, do you tell your Husbands…that you’ve come by it, or…do you….keep it from them….?”  — Sophie in What A Young Wife Ought To Know, Hannah Moscovitch In … Continue reading →

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Viscosity: Theatre Yes challenges preconceptions about big oil and the people who work it

Posted on November 6, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s not exactly a play, although there are actors. It’s not exactly journalism, although the monologues are transcribed (and edited) verbatim from interviews with real-life people. And you might resist calling it an exhibit, although you … Continue reading →

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