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Heisenberg: the zigzag path to romance, at Shadow Theatre. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s named for a scientific principle that’s all about the unprincipled nature of the particulate world — its randomness and unpredictability. (You can’t measure the position and momentum of a particle simultaneously with any precision, according to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, romantic comedy, Shadow Theatre, Simon Stephens
The Children: a mystery, and a subtle Wild Side production. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If there ever was a play that domesticates a big issue, to find a more expansively human one, The Children is it. By the hot young Brit playwright Lucy Kirkwood, the fascinating 2015 “eco-thriller” that Wild … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, eco-thriller, Edmonton indie theatre, Edmonton theatre, Lucy Kirkwood, Wild Side Productions
The Blue Hour: nobody writes ‘prairie plays’ like it these days. Some thoughts on the SkirtsAfire premiere
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Just in the nick of time I finally got a chance on the weekend to catch The Blue Hour. Named for the magical moment of ambiguity when light shades into darkness, Michele Vance Hehir’s new play … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Michele Vance Hehir, prairie naturalism, Roseglen Trilogy, SkirtsaFire Festival
The sound of many doors slamming: Noises Off at the Mayfield. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca As Julie Andrews famously said in The Sound of Music, when one door closes another opens. She was not in fact talking about farces at the time. But she might have been. The oil business rolls … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, farce, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Michael Frayn, Noises Off
“Is anybody waving back at me?” Dear Evan Hansen at the Jube. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What does it feel like to live in a buzzing world of cross-hatched ever-escalating and fading images and phrases, a metastasizing, translucent tangle of entries, posts, links, tags, photos? Where the music of the spheres (not … Continue reading
Stunning, strongly sung, compellingly theatrical: The Invisible at Catalyst. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In The Invisible – Agents of Ungentlemanly Warfare, an Allied team of World War II super-warriors are recruited and trained, each with a specialty in the stealth warrior skill set. And then they’re unleashed behind enemy … Continue reading
The quest for happiness, one little item at a time. A review of Every Brilliant Thing, starring John Ullyatt, at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This will seem a wintry, back-handed way to start a review. But there are many reasons in advance to dread Every Brilliant Thing. Not so much because the dark subject of death by suicide is involved … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, audience participation, Citadel Theatre, Dave Horak, Duncan MacMillan, Edmonton theatre, John Ullyatt, Rice Theatre
A brave new gender-less world? Happy Birthday Baby J, a new Nick Green comedy at Shadow Theatre. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I was saying my authenticity mantra,” declares a progressive bourgeois mommy at the start of Happy Birthday Baby J. Yes indeed, “authenticity” (and an assortment of other contemporary mantras) will be up for discussion, dissection, and … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Canadian comedy, Edmonton theatre, Nick Green, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
A riotous black comedy from Colleen Murphy at Theatre Network: Titus Bouffonius is all good unwholesome fun. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a rare evening at the theatre that gets you laughing out loud, gives you a good smack upside the head — and makes you wonder later whether you might have dreamed the whole thing. AND … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, bouffon clowns, Colleen Murphy, Edmonton theatre, revenge plays, Rumble Theatre, Theatre Network, Titus Andronicus
