Category Archives: Previews

Dungeons and Dragons, and other theatrical matters

Posted on May 11, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Nerd Alert: Saturday is Dungeons & Dragons night at Rapid Fire Theatre. Actually, every Saturday in May is Dungeons & Dragons night at Rapid Fire Theatre. Mark Meer, a veritable scholar of nerd-ly arcana, game theory … Continue reading →

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Two people, 6 guns, a lot of music: meet the young stars of Bonnie and Clyde

Posted on May 3, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca We know them as historical celebrities, the bank robber stars of a Depression Era crime spree who made a spectacular exit from the world in a bullet-riddled Ford in 1934. But in the “two person six-gun” … Continue reading →

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But is it Art? three guys sitting around discussing a painting at Shadow Theatre

Posted on April 27, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Scene: Three guys in a room discussing a play about three guys in a room discussing a painting. The play under discussion is Art, the elegantly minimalist 1994 play by Parisian actor/playwright Yasmin Reza that’s the … Continue reading →

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The world of Jane Austen comes to the stage in Tom Wood’s new adaptation of Sense and Sensibility

Posted on April 27, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca With Sense and Sensibility, premiering on the Citadel MainStage Thursday in a Bob Baker production, playwright Tom Wood returns to the small-town Regency life into which he first tumbled, without Jane-ite baggage (even carry-on), in 2008. … Continue reading →

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Fun with the famiglia: Farren Timoteo talks about Made in Italy

Posted on April 26, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When Farren Timoteo was seven years old, he arrived home from school one day to be greeted by his dad with the following (delivered in a portentous tone): “I think you’re old enough now.”  Luigi was … Continue reading →

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Battle of the bone hunters: The Bone Wars is Punctuate!’s biggest show yet

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Bone Wars wasn’t always going to be theatre for grown-ups to take kids to. Far from it.    Punctuate! Theatre, after all, got its raison d’être, and exclamation point, tackling plays about the conflicted descendants … Continue reading →

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Chris Craddock talks about Irma Voth: novel, theatre, and film meet onstage

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Naturally playwright/ actor/ master improviser/ filmmaker/ screenwriter/ “double-dad” Chris Craddock is relaxed at pre-12-hour rehearsal breakfast in Strathcona last week. Why wouldn’t he be? Surely, his life of late is a flat landscape of non-eventful tranquillity … Continue reading →

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Get your Fairy Godmother on the case: Cinderella is coming to town

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight. ca “Impossible, for a plain yellow pumpkin to become a golden carriage./ Impossible, for a plain country bumpkin and a prince to join in marriage….”  Impossible? Well, hang on … actually, there is a precedent. And you’ll see … Continue reading →

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Wanna tour night-time Dublin? Terminus takes us on a “metaphysical odyssey”

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

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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La Raccourcie: a father/son confrontation at L’UniThéâtre

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

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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