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Deaf, and an expert in the absurdities of the world: Chris Dodd’s Deafy at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Deafy, currently running in the Citadel’s Rice Theatre, we meet a man with a fine-tuned sense of the absurdities of the world. In his wry way he’s an expert in negotiating obstacles both large and … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, Follow the Signs Theatre, SOUND OFF Festival
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Enough, the aerial view of a mysterious dread, at Northern Light. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I am the image of escape,” says one of the two globe-trotting flight attendant characters in Enough, getting its Canadian premiere in the Northern Light Theatre season. There they are, trim and calm and smiling, 30,000 … Continue reading
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Fresh Hell: in Conni Massing’s new play an unusual case of female bonding. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You’ll never guess who Dorothy Parker ran into the other day. On a stage. In Edmonton. Of all the historical figures that you might reasonably expect the New York wit, poet, satirist to conjure at … Continue reading
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A coming-of-age thriller: Freaky Green Eyes at Fringe Theatre, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The opening image of Freaky Green Eyes is a girl poised on a diving board, about to take the plunge. In Emma Houghton’s solo show, an artful stage adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’s 2003 powerfully dark … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Joyce Carol Oates, Punctuate! Theatre
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Far From The Home I Love: a Fiddler on the Roof for our time. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the opening moments of the grand touring production of Fiddler on the Roof that’s arrived at the Jube, a solitary man in a modern red parka walks onto the stage under a weathered train station … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway Across Canada, Broadway musicals, Edmonton theatre, Fiddler on the Roof, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year: A Christmas Carol at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The ‘hap-happiest season of all,’ as the familiar song has it, can officially begin. A Christmas Carol is back onstage at the Citadel for the 23rd year. Daryl Cloran’s production is thrillingly big, bigger than last … Continue reading
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The Innocence of Trees, a strange and wonderful fantasia on making art, opens the new Theatre Network season. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Theatre Network mainstage is overhung with canvases, dropped at every angle, catching the light in different ways. The back wall, the horizon of the theatre, is a single canvas, and a vertical black line moves … Continue reading
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From a big bad dangerous world, to us: Evandalism, a surprising original at Fringe Theatre. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It wasn’t a promising start to a life: “a little Mexican Indian whose mom and dad didn’t want him.” The guy who stands before us, tattooed and smiling in front of a big magic board, is … Continue reading
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A comedy thriller inside a comedy thriller: Deathtrap at Teatro Live! A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If there ever was a play that judges success when the audience gasps together, then laughs at its own collective surprise, it’s the one that opens the season at Teatro Live! (the newly renamed Teatro La … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, comedy thrillers, Deathtrap, Edmonton theatre, Ira Levin, Teatro Live! Varscona Theatre
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