Category Archives: Previews

The body in motion: Expanse is back in the Chinook Series

Posted on February 5, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It starts with the body. As its name suggests, Expanse sets the body in motion in space — and celebrates what happens next. In the ever-expansive movement arts festival curated by Azimuth Theatre and returning to … Continue reading →

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The Citadel’s upcoming 54th season: local stars in an international galaxy

Posted on January 28, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The new logo is just the tip-off. Monday afternoon at Edmonton’s largest playhouse artistic director Daryl Cloran unveiled an ambitious upcoming Citadel season —  its 54th and his third as the architect of the company lineup. … Continue reading →

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From story to myth: Lake of the Strangers asks “how do we heal?”

Posted on January 21, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Lake of the Strangers, the solo play that premieres this week at the Backstage Theatre, you’ll meet two Indigenous brothers, 10 and seven, on a mission out in the natural world. “It’s their last summer … Continue reading →

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The Cardiac Shadow, a multi-disciplinary exploration of human resilience at Northern Light

Posted on January 17, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “We were the thermometers of these men. The mercury was in our veins, rising and falling with every heartbeat. Our bodies measured the temperature of death.” The Cardiac Shadow, Clay McLeod Chapman In the play the … Continue reading →

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The collapse of the blue-collar dream: Sweat, Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winner, comes to the Citadel

Posted on January 16, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “They don’t understand that human decency is at the core of everything. They squeeze us like a sponge, drain every last drop of blood out and then throw us away.” — Stan the bartender in Sweat, … Continue reading →

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Hell tour via the circus: Firefly Theatre’s Inferno

Posted on January 15, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Go to hell. That’s what Jocelyn Ahlf and Belinda Cornish have been wanting to do for years. And now they have. Firefly Theatre’s 14-performer workshop production of Inferno, that takes to the stage, and also the … Continue reading →

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Minerva, Queen of the Handcuffs: a woman trapped in a man’s world

Posted on January 14, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “In life you feel you’re trapped in a situation and there’s no out, no gap, no light. Everyone can relate to that feeling of being stuck, in some way…. There’s a real-ness to that.”  — Miranda … Continue reading →

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Hoist a pint, tell a tale: Cardiac Theatre’s KaldrSaga at The Almanac

Posted on January 9, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the dead of winter in dark northern cities, humans put on their boots and gravitate to pubs. There they congregate, hoist beer, and tell tales.  That time-honoured oral tradition is honoured in the play/ storytelling … Continue reading →

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They rise again: The Malachites are back with Macbeth

Posted on January 4, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “When shall we three meet again/ In thunder, lightning, or in rain?” chant the Witches in the opening moment of Shakespeare’s fleet, dark, violent Macbeth.  Or in snow? Yes, Malachite Theatre, a London/Canada collective whose mission … Continue reading →

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Merry Merry quite contrary: the Christmas spirit up against resistance, 4 festive shows on E-town stages this week

Posted on December 13, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Merry Merry quite contrary. Some are born with the festive spirit; some achieve it, and some have it thrust upon ’em. And sometimes, as you know, seasonal high spirits have to be released (or wrestled down) … Continue reading →

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