Category Archives: Previews

No one’s staying home this weekend: why would you? A wealth of choices on E-town stages

Posted on October 12, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca  At the U of A’s Studio Theatre, it’s back in the USSR with Lenin’s Embalmers, Vern Thiessen’s black and absurdist 2008 tragicomedy (imagined from a true story) about two competing Jewish biochemists landing the unenviable joint … Continue reading →

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A new artistic director and a new season at L’UniThéâtre

Posted on October 12, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the play that launches L’UniThéâtre’s 26th season tonight in a Nancy McAlear production, we meet a trio of characters who just can’t seem to help being pissed off — at daycare workers, at other people’s … Continue reading →

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The dystopian vision of Trevor Schmidt: a new season at Northern Light Theatre

Posted on October 10, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Frankly, I’ve always been more interested in women’s stories than men’s,” says Trevor Schmidt, his dander up on a break last week from rehearsals for Origin of the Species. The highly unusual feminist two-hander comedy by … Continue reading →

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Gertrude and Alice go sitcom, at the Grindstone

Posted on October 5, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Gertrude and Alice: They’re the famously eccentric American couple who held court as paid-up members of the glittering Parisian avant-garde of the ‘20s. And now, once a month, you’ll find Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, … Continue reading →

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Exploring space and time, with a dog: Jezebel, At The Still Point

Posted on October 5, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca On a break from rehearsal this past week, the cast of Jezebel, At the Still Point are hanging out in the Theatre Network green room. One of them — the one with the speaking role — … Continue reading →

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Pinocchio: a new production of an Alberta Opera original opens the Roxy Performance Series

Posted on September 28, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Seven years ago, a musical-writing duo with a string of sassy re-angled fairy-tale musicals for kids to their credit got their mitts on a different sort of adventure. It was free-wheeling and fantastical, crazily episodic — … Continue reading →

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Unlacing Shakespeare’s women: the Bard goes burlesque at the Capitol Theatre

Posted on September 27, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Think of them as the ultimate theatre buffs: reveals are their speciality. Send In The Girls Burlesque comes to the stage of Fort Edmonton Park’s vintage Capitol Theatre Friday and Saturday, in honour of Alberta Culture … Continue reading →

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The fine art of foolery: the return of Play The Fool, E-Town’s “festival of clown and physical comedy”

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Foolery, sir, doth walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.” – Twelfth Night III, i. Edmonton, we are about to have an outbreak — an eruption? an infiltration? invasion? effervescence? collision? conflagration? — … Continue reading →

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Once … upon a time: meet Ann Hodges, director of the cult film-turned-musical that launches the Citadel season

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Once … upon a time there was a winsomely offbeat 2007 indie Irish film, about the unlikely friendship between a Dublin street musician and a Czech immigrant. It was made for a dime (well, $150,000), shot … Continue reading →

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The exhilaration of chaos: Teatro revives the screwball Skirts On Fire as their 2018 season finale

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a scene that might have been lifted direct from the Teatro La Quindicina archive, a playwright and a leading man were in a tiny Strathcona cocktail bar last week discussing the essence of screwball comedy. … Continue reading →

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