Category Archives: Previews

“Grotesque fun” with Shakespeare: Macbeth Muet and the return of Surreal SoReal. A Fringe preview

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Grotesque fun,” says Jon Lachlan Stewart. “There’s a lot of laughs in our production. And then there’s not….” He’s talking about Macbeth Muet, a 60-minute version of Shakespeare’s swift and brutal tragedy that dismisses every Forsooth … Continue reading →

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Settle down class: the teacher is back, in a new version of Miss Katelyn’s Grade Threes Prepare For The Inevitable

Posted on July 17, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Imagine: someone loony enough to believe that some unobtrusive terrorist gunman could go into a school and …    It doesn’t exactly take a paranoid with an apocalyptic persecution fantasy to imagine “a worst-case scenario.” Reality … Continue reading →

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Leona Brausen plays Lady B: The Importance of Being Earnest at Teatro La Quindicina

Posted on July 12, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There will be a moment this evening when an actor who has spent a great deal of time in her career providing perfectly vintage handbags to the casts of period comedies will get the ultimate pay-off. … Continue reading →

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Found Festival 2018: surprising finds, unexpected encounters

Posted on July 3, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Found, the festival that’s all about the find — art and artists in places you never expected to run into them — is back this weekend in Old Strathcona for a seventh annual edition. It’s all about … Continue reading →

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Taking comedy and tragedy to the park: the Freewill Shakespeare Festival returns

Posted on June 21, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a vast expanse of theatrical distance between the two shows you’ll see alternating in the outdoor Shakespeare festival that opens tonight in the river valley. Tonight’s show is a comedy, and a farcical one at that; … Continue reading →

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30 summers of Shakespeare in the great outdoors

Posted on June 20, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca ‘Tis wondrous strange, but there was a time, now receding into the mists of the past, when Shakespeare (Will to his friends) didn’t camp out in the river valley every summer. When you couldn’t drift down … Continue reading →

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But hark, a new play! Thou Art Here at Freewill Shakespeare Festival

Posted on June 17, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “For the long and short is, our play is preferred….”  (IV, ii, A Midsummer Night’s Dream) In one of the most reliably hilarious (and heartwarming) sequences in all of Shakespeare, a co-op of serious and inept … Continue reading →

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The art of spontaneity enters a disturbing new dimension: The Society of Strange comes to Improvaganza 2018

Posted on June 13, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Unlikely. Improbable. Unpredictable. Improvaganza, the 10-day festival with bona fide global connections, expressly devoted to the adrenalized art of the spontaneous, is all of that. With The Society of Strange, arriving from across the pond for the … Continue reading →

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A marriage and a dinner party: The Gooseberry at Nextfest

Posted on June 1, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

The mainstage theatre lineup at Nextfest 2018 includes four productions of strikingly diverse and unusual inspirations and theatrical styles. 12thnight.ca talked to the playwrights. Meet Juniper Wisniewski, creator of The Gooseberry, a black comedy in which a dinner party is the … Continue reading →

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A convergence of paths en route to healing: Where do we Begin? at Nextfest

Posted on May 31, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

The mainstage theatre lineup at Nextfest 2018 includes four productions of strikingly diverse and unusual inspirations and theatrical styles. 12thnight.ca talked to the playwrights. Meet Lady Vanessa Cardona, Joanna Simon, and Roya Yazdanmehr, creators (and stars) of Where do we Begin?, a … Continue reading →

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