Category Archives: Reviews

As the crow flies: Nicole Moeller’s new play gets under your skin at Azimuth

Posted on May 19, 2017 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the first moments of The Preacher, The Princess, And A Crow, a man bursts headlong into a tower room above a street. He triple-locks the door behind him. Jasper is a man under siege. But … Continue reading →

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The two person, six gun, many power ballad musical: Bonnie and Clyde at Northern Light: a review

Posted on May 7, 2017 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Northern Light Theatre director/designer Trevor Schmidt is something of a wizard of witty theatrical transformations. With Bonnie & Clyde the two person six-gun musical, the Northern Light season finale, his proven ingenuity has a double challenge. … Continue reading →

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Art: is the price right? A review of the Shadow season finale

Posted on May 1, 2017 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The centrepiece of Art, the Shadow Theatre season finale, is the quintessential modern provocation/sight gag: a big-ticket white-on-white painting by someone famous. “Modern art” is a perennially combustible subject. Trust me, you can’t be a reviewer … Continue reading →

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Prima viene la famiglia! Farren Timoteo’s Made In Italy, a review

Posted on April 30, 2017 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The centrepiece of Made In Italy is a long wooden dining room table. In the course of the funny, touching, many-character solo play by Farren Timoteo, its agile creator and star will sit behind it and … Continue reading →

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Keep making sense: Sense and Sensibility at the Citadel, a review

Posted on April 28, 2017 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the Citadel of an evening, you can overhear talk of annual incomes, real estate and mortgages, annuities and entailments, wills and estates, pre-nups. And, of course, renos.  And no, gentle reader, it isn’t in the … Continue reading →

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O those dancing bones and the story of Alberta: The Bone Wars, a review

Posted on April 24, 2017 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s something pretty wacky and exhilarating about catching a musical comedy about warring palaeontologists any time — but especially on Earth Day and the March For Science weekend. Take it as a sign of global heartwarming. But … Continue reading →

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Escape into the playful grown-up world of art: Chris Craddock’s Irma Voth at Theatre Network. A review

Posted on April 21, 2017 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Enter the Roxy, and see what a sense of possibility looks like.  A shallow stage is dominated by a beautiful translucent wall made entirely of framed windows. Windows that will glow promisingly, conjure paintings or cityscapes, … Continue reading →

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Cinderella: the Prince is having a ball! and also an election. A review

Posted on April 19, 2017 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Cinderella has always been the poster girl for the poor but upwardly mobile. Bide your time, miserable lackey: your dreams can come true. Karma’s on your side, long-term, if you’re oppressed by snarly step-relatives and a … Continue reading →

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The end of the line in Dublin by night: the poetry of Mark O’Rowe’s Terminus

Posted on April 17, 2017 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Irish triptych: Three brick gangways, with the sinister look of  autopsy slabs waiting for a body, up against three brick walls that tip forward and loom. Eerie industrial white noise as static in a dark theatre. … Continue reading →

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The resurrection of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Mayfield: a review

Posted on April 17, 2017 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a diverse T-shirt and jean crowd that drifts onto the Mayfield stage at the start of Jesus Christ Superstar. There’s even a swaggering older dude in a suit who strides in, and looks slightly sinister … Continue reading →

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