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The clowns from corporate head office are here: GERALD, a Fringe review
Gerald (Stage 20, Mile Zero Dance Theatre) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The outreach department of Gerald Corp, one of the galaxy’s biggest energy companies, has sent two recruiters through space to find us humans. Please stand by. Lucky us! We’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight, Bad Knees Studios, clown theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe 2026, HEYwire Theatre
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The passing of the crown: the 30th anniversary revival of The Edmonton Queen, a Fringe review
The Edmonton Queen (Stage 31, Nancy Power Theatre at the Roxy) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Every once in a while a queen in born. Whether through osmosis or immaculate misconception is still mostly a mystery….” At 19, a gay kid … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton drag artists, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton queer history, Edmonton theatre, Fringe 2026, Guys in Disguise
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Dear mom, I’m fine, or I will be. The agony and the ecstasy of being someone’s mother, Parenthood: It’s A Mutha. A Fringe review
Parenthood: It’s A Mutha (Stage 32, Lorne Cardinal Theatre at the Roxy) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This show by the warm, charismatic Michelle Todd isn’t really shaped like a play. It’s a free-form memoir, a personal confessional that starts in … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe 2026, METODD Productions, Roxy Theatre, Theatre Network
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The scary funhouse of memory and identity: Fetch, a Fringe review
Fetch (Stage 5, Acacia Hall) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Two women, in identical dresses, stand before us with identical cardboard boxes in this unnerving, tightly wound little 2018 thriller by the Edmonton playwright Cat Walsh, whose muse runs to dark … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Cat Walsh, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe 2026
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From history into a world of puppet poetry: the fascinating, elusive challenge of Object of Divinity
Object of Divinity (Stage 3, Nordic Studio Theatre) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Object of Divinity is a strangely timeless and timely story that underpins this enigmatic human/puppet show by actor/playwright Calla Wright, with an electro-industrial score, created and performed live … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe 2026, puppet theatre, SILKRØad
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Can these two connect in the darkness? Here’s a mysterious little gem that’s about that. Being Norwegian, a Fringe review
Being Norwegian (Stage 22, The de Villars Jones LLP Stage at Holy Trinity Church By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This little gem of a two-hander by star Scottish playwright David Greig is something rare: a perfectly formed 45-minute rom-com where the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, David Greig, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe 2026, Trunk Theatre
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Singing and dancing with ghosts in a haunted, and haunting, musical: Ghost Quartet. A Fringe review
Ghost Quartet (stage 36, ArtsHub Ortona) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This haunted, and haunting, musical invites us into an atmospheric lamp-lit bar under a spacious vault (the venue, as arranged by director/designer Jim Guedo is just right) where whiskey gets … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Brave Spaces Theatre, Dave Malloy, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe 2026
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I’ll have what she’s having (or not): Queens of Romance, a 12thnight Fringe review
Queens of Romance (Stage 11, Varscona Theatre) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Trevor Schmidt’s latest play for 100% More Girls, we’re in a pink-hued world (designer: Schmidt), at the finale event of the Hopeless Romantics’ seventh annual Love and Romance … Continue reading
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Tagged 100% More Girls, 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe 2026, Trevor Schmidt
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Match-making at the Fringe: the hummable hilarity of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ROBOCOP The Musical. A Fringe review
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ROBOCOP: The Musical (Stage 11, Varscona Theatre By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Here’s weird. If Rodgers and Hammerstein were such musical theatre big shots, with clout, how come “their most ambitious show ever” never made it to opening … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Cousins in Law Productions, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe 2026
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