Category Archives: Reviews

How hard can it be? The real-world theatre of the absurd in 638 Ways To Kill Castro. A Fringe review

Posted on August 22, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

638 Ways To Kill Castro (Stage 3, Nancy Power Theatre at the Roxy) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca As a source of absurdity in the world, there might actually be a rich, limitless, renewable repository in … reality. And this smart … Continue reading →

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Amazing but true: mind-exploding synchronicity from the brain inside Gordon’s Big Bald Head

Posted on August 22, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

Amazing but true. A quick sidenote to Monster Theatre’s Erika The Red (my review is here). By a mind-exploding Fringe synchronicity, on Wednesday I saw improv virtuosos Gordon’s Big Bald Head, actually improvise on the Varscona Theatre stage (Stage 11) an … Continue reading →

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Complicated fun with Vikings: Erika The Red from Monster Theatre. A Fringe review

Posted on August 22, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

Erika The Red (Stage 15, Campus Saint-Jean Auditorium) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Erika The Red, Tara Travis single-handedly populates the stage with the following: villages of doomed Scandinavians, boat-loads of ferocious Viking warriors, a gang of inept but aspirational … Continue reading →

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Til’ (a whole bunch of stuff, check the box) do us part: I, Diana. A Fringe review

Posted on August 21, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

I, Diana (Stage 2, The Next Act Backstage Theatre) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Narcissism requires constant maintenance and sustenance. In this light-hearted new relationship comedy, with a twist, from Linda Wood Edwards, we meet the kind of someone theatre blurbs … Continue reading →

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Camping with “two special girls”: Let’s Not Turn On Each Other, a Fringe REVIEW

Posted on August 21, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

Let’s Not Turn On Each Other (Stage 25, Spotlight Cabaret) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Now, here’s a theatrical welcome to warm the heart. An appealing pair of clowns, whose resting state is high excitement, are downright ecstatic when they catch … Continue reading →

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Jay-suss, saving souls, and raising money: Brother Love’s Good Time Gospel Hour, a Fringe revew

Posted on August 21, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

Brother Love’s Good Time Gospel Hour (Stage 1, ATB Westbury Theatre) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Edmonton, are you ready to be saved!?” asks Brother Love, travelling salvation salesman  — and purveyor of such spiritual aides as his ‘dirty preacher wives’ … Continue reading →

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And back in the Hundred Acre Wood…. Who’s Afraid Of Winnie The Pooh? A Fringe review

Posted on August 20, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

Who’s Afraid of Winnie the Pooh? (Stage 18, FOH PRO Stage, Grindstone Venues) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The title alone of this play from Clevername Theatre of Minneapolis stops you in your tracks, with its sheer head-on bravado and disaster … Continue reading →

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Opening a portal into the dark world: Microwave Coven from Guys in Disguise, a Fringe review

Posted on August 20, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

Microwave Coven (Stage 11, Varscona Theatre) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At Maxine’s “contemporary split-level,” the suburban matrons of Placid Place are counting down to the stroke of 12, noon that is (much more convenient for scheduling than midnight). It’s 1977 … Continue reading →

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He had it comin’: The Black Widow Gun Club, a Fringe review

Posted on August 19, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

The Black Widow Gun Club (Stage 4, MacEwan Fine Arts Walterdale Theatre) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This stylish little confection devised by Trevor Schmidt for Whizgiggling Productions comes with all the film noir trimmings:  — sexy sinister music (Mason Snelgrove), … Continue reading →

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The comedy of damage control: Ducks, a Fringe review

Posted on August 19, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

Ducks (Stage 20, Blind Enthusiasm Stage at MZD – Grindstone Venues) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A black-hearted, knowing little comedy asks you to imagine this: a provincial government communications department that’s all about not communicating, concealing, dipsy-doodling around the Freedom … Continue reading →

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