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Wanna tour night-time Dublin? Terminus takes us on a “metaphysical odyssey”
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Good storytelling isn’t just telling,” says director Jim Guedo. “A good storyteller makes you feel it’s happening in the present…. It’s in the now.” And that ‘now’ gets darker, stranger, more brutal in the fantastical urban … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Irish theatre, Mark O'Rowe, Wild Side Productions
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La Raccourcie: a father/son confrontation at L’UniThéâtre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There are mysteries at the heart of La Raccourcie, the 1991 two-hander by Quebec writer Jean-Rock Gaudreault that opens at L’UniThéâtre this week, in French with English surtitles. It’s a father-son confrontation in the woods that … Continue reading
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Catching ‘starstuff’ onstage: Peter and the Starcatcher at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Use your thoughts to hoist the sails,” advises the stalwart Victorian captain of a British frigate in the prologue to Peter and the Starcatcher, opening on the Citadel’s Maclab stage Thursday. Which is exactly what director … Continue reading
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Lighting a (bon)fire under improv
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Wrap your mind around this terrifying idea for an improv show: What if an improviser found himself onstage in a fully rehearsed, costumed, blocked 30-minute play he knows nothing about — without a script, as a … Continue reading
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The Maggie Tree presents 9 Parts of Desire: the women of Iraq
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Survival: Life and love in a time of war and occupation. There is nothing simple about the lives of the nine Iraqi women we meet in the 2003 play cum theatrical documentary that opens Thursday … Continue reading
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Art and politics mix it up at Gravity cabaret
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The situation is … grave. And getting graver. Yup, Gravity, “the cabaret of art and politics” that made its debut 18 months ago, has a lot to work with this time out. We’re at a moment … Continue reading
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Colleen Murphy: burning brightly at Studio Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Our big fat myth,” declares Colleen Murphy (whose declarations tend to have a combustible edge to them) “is that we’re a classless society.” “The tremendous gap between the wealthy and the working poor, and the rage … Continue reading
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The Fall of the House of Atreus: fun and games with Greek tragedy
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Three actors, 300 prop gags!” “It’s either the highest of the lowbrow or the lowest of the highbrow. One or the other!” declares playwright Jessy Arden cheerily of The Fall of the House of Atreus, the … Continue reading
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Panache: the Ponce is back for Pt. Deux of Firefly’s circus satire
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There never would have been a sequel if the unthinkable hadn’t happened. When last we met Ponce de Ponce de Panache, 12 months ago, it was at a pep rally for the self-glorifying blusterer and king … Continue reading
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Serca: celebrating the Irish in us
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For poetic impulses and vivid characters, and a certain raucous soulfulness and way with words, you can’t beat the Irish. And Serca (the Gaelic word for “love story) is the festival that celebrates that multi-faceted contribution. … Continue reading
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