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Hilarity and horror: ghost stories from the dark vault of our history, improvised. Ha-Ha-Haunting returns to Rapid Fire
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Embrace your ghosts, Edmonton. This is the season when the frontier between the living and the dead is at its flimsiest, and spirits are raving (and lining up for artisan beer at the bar. And Rapid … Continue reading
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The reluctant activist who loves her kid: The Pink Unicorn opens the 50th birthday season at Northern Light, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the solo play that returns to Northern Light Theatre after a decade to launch the company’s 50th anniversary season, we meet a woman whose alignment with her world — and the next one too — … Continue reading
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Quality time with the older generation: the unforced charm of Banana Musik, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The homey smell of cooking hangs over the unusually hospitable show, developed at the Found Festival, that’s currently running at the Backstage Theatre. There’s dinner and there’s theatre in Banana Musik, launching Common Ground Arts Society’s … Continue reading
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Theatrical thrills in Life of Pi, launching the Citadel’s 60th anniversary season. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A boy. A tiger. The vast Pacific. Onstage. How can it be? A sense of wonder — in both the fantastical story and the thrilling theatricality of its telling — is the currency of the Life … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Puppet Stuff Canada, puppet theatre, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Yann Martel
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The hopes and dreams of a raccoon existentialist: The Shiniest Piece of Trailer Trash, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Aww, this is the life! I get to be here, for free!” declares the resourceful, scrappy character we meet in The Shiniest Piece of Trailer Trash. In Meegan Sweet’s imaginative solo show, the staff choice at … Continue reading
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Nostalgia in sight and sound: The Simon & Garfunkel Story opens the Mayfield season, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What is conjured for us at the (newly renovated) Mayfield showroom, in The Simon & Garfunkel Story, is the signature harmonious blend of the last century’s most celebrated duo. There is something witty about starting a … Continue reading
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Look! Look! I spotted a pair of rare white-topped cuckoos. The fun and charm of The Birds, a Fringe review
The Birds (Stage 1, ATB Westbury Theatre) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “The wonders of the avian world” can be yours, my friends, via this “flock-umentary,” which trains the bird-watcher opera glasses on the the birth, adolescence, courtship, mating, parenting rituals … Continue reading
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‘Everybody has a right to their dreams’: Sondheim’s Assassins, a Fringe review
Assassins (Stage 36, ArtsHub Ortona) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “All you have to do is move your little finger and you can change the world,” sings the disaffected actor John Wilkes Booth in Assassins. And he did just that in … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe 2025, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Stephen Sondheim, Uniform Theatre
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In the beginning was … writer’s block. Genesis, a Fringe review
Genesis (Stage 2, The Next Act Backstage Theatre) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There are plenty of plays cavorting through the back catalogues of the repertoire (with ‘meta’ stickers on their backs) where wayward characters are searching for an author to … Continue reading
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A shocker from the Greeks: blistering three-actor A Kind of Electra, a Fringe review
A Kind of Electra (Stage 4, MacEwan Fine Arts Walterdale Theatre) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When we meet the title character (Caitlin Stasey) in this lacerating three-actor account of the Greek myth of Electra, she is a shocking sight, shrieking … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe 2025, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Electra, The Clown School Company
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