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KaldrSaga: the secret lives of gods and heroes in Cardiac’s genial storytelling pub show. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Tell me a story” (preferably “funny but dark”). And make it snappy. Hey, what are friends for? In KaldrSaga: A Queer Tavern Drama For A Midwinter’s Night, Harley Morison’s free-wheeling new pub show for Cardiac Theatre, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12tnight.ca, Cardiac Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Harley Morison, Norse mythology, The Almanac
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The Malachite Macbeth haunts a church: a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In this the mournful post-festive season, there is something more than a little unnerving about entering a vaulted dimly lit chamber, to the wail of a single violin. The shadows of a pale, spectral giant tree … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Benjamin Blyth, Edmonton theatre, Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Macbeth, Malachite Theatre, Shakespeare tragedies
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Hanging our obsessions on the tannenbaum: Oh! Christmas Tree. A guest review by Todd Babiak
By Todd Babiak Those who love Christmas tend to have trouble empathizing with those who — for no solid religious or cultural reasons — don’t feel it. From Charlie Brown and The Grinch to Ebenezer Scrooge and the incontinent drunk … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Blunt Entertainment, Brian Deedrick, Christmas shows, Conni Massing, Edmonton theatre, Roxy on Gateway, Theatre Network, Theatre of the New Heart
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Keeping Christmas in our hearts: A Christmas Carol to lift your spirits at the Citadel. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?” For 19 years, Edmonton theatre audiences have had their own special answer, hand-delivered from the stage live and in person. It’s come to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, A Christmas Carol, Bob Baker, Charles Dickens, Citadel Theatre, Ebenezer Scrooge, Edmonton theatre, Leslie Frankish, Tom Wood
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Keeping Christmas in our hearts: A Christmas Carol to lift our spirits at the Citadel. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?” For 19 years, Edmonton theatre audiences have had their own special answer, hand-delivered from the stage live and in person. It’s come to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, A Christmas Carol, Bob Baker, Charles Dickens, Christmas shows, Citadel Theatre, Cratchit, Ebenezer Scrooge, Edmonton theatre, Leslie Frankish, Tom Wood
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Dreaming of home: Matara takes us to the zoo and a lone elephant, at Workshop West. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “This is her home. And we are her family.” That’s Karen the zookeeper (Elinor Holt) taking on protesters and talking about her charge, who’s big, exotic, fascinating — and languishing a world away from her ‘country … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Conni Massing, Edmonton theatre, Edmonton Valley Zoo, Lucy the elephant, Tracy Carroll, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, zoos
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“Ripe for a lapse”: Fallen Angels is a Bright Young Things lark. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The “nice part” of Julia is perfectly content with matrimonial “happiness and tranquillity.” There lurks, however, “a beastly, unworthy thing waiting to spring.” And, she adds darkly, “it hasn’t been fed for a long LONG time….” … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bright Young Things, Edmonton theatre, Fallen Angels, Noel Coward, Varscona Theatre, Varscona Theatre Ensemble
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Miss Bennet gets a romantic comedy to call her own: Jane Austen revisited at the Citadel in a delightful holiday show
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the charmer of a holiday show up and running (well, alighting gracefully) on the Citadel’s Shoctor stage, characters are startled when they notice the live tree in the drawing room. In the course of Miss … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Jane Austen, Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Nancy McAlear, Pride and Prejudic
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A love story and a cautionary tale: a riveting production of What A Young Wife Ought To Know at Theatre Network
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Love,” Sophie tells us near the start of What A Young Wife Ought To Know, “is a strange sort of madness that comes over you and makes the future go dark.” In Hannah Moscovitch’s gut-wrenching coming-of-age … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, birth control movement, Edmonton theatre, Hannah Moscovitch, Theatre Network, women's sexual health
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Raising a little hell: Canada 151 at the Mayfield. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You know you’re in Canada when the Beachcombers theme is in the air pre-show. And the band arrives onstage in lumberjack shirts. And your heart melts just a little when everyone in the opening production … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Canada 151, Canadian music, Edmonton theatre, Kate Ryan, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, musical revues, Van Wilmott
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