Category Archives: Reviews

Falling slowly for Once: a low-key musical fairy-tale opens the Citadel season. A review

Posted on September 28, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I pay you with music,” says the fairy godmother to the despondent troubadour in Once. And lo and behold, making music is the ultimate fairy elixir: it can transform you from half-dead to fully alive, and … Continue reading →

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Thou Art Where? A roving production of Shakespeare’s Will in a cemetery, a review

Posted on September 24, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Thou Art Here!, a company that does Shakespeare meet-and-greets in unexpected locations, takes us to a graveyard. It’s dusk. Five ghostly women appear through the trees in the distance and come towards us. As the daylight … Continue reading →

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Oh, what a knight: Two Good Knights at the Mayfield. A review

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You know the songs. Heck, you can’t NOT know the songs. By now they’re in the collective DNA, and that much-abused term iconic doesn’t go amiss. Which is both a magnetic draw and a challenge for … Continue reading →

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An impressive playwriting debut: Harun, a Fringe review

Posted on August 25, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Harun (Stage 4, Academy at King Edward) The double-optic of the immigrant kid — torn between cultures and generations, loyalty to family and the urgent momentum of a new life — is the complexity that Makram … Continue reading →

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A new company, a new play: A Town Called Umbra, a guest 12thnight Fringe review by Todd Babiak

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

A Town Called Umbra (Stage 11, Studio Theatre) In most cities, a new theatre company launches with an ambitious version of an existing play, something classic and accessible. Most cities are not Edmonton, where a new theatre company nearly always … Continue reading →

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Love, loss, and stories that sneak up to grab your heart: Martin Dockery’s Delirium, A guest 12thnight Fringe review by Todd Babiak

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

Martin Dockery: Delirium (Stage 3, Walterdale Theatre) As Martin Dockery welcomes us into the bare theatre, his only prop a water bottle, he doesn’t bother with any artifice. He is Martin, we are who we are, hey man, hi guys, … Continue reading →

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In the ghostly light of cellphones, a haunting: Concord Floral, a Fringe review

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca  Concord Floral (Stage 4, Academy at King Edward) It’s an unnerving — no, genuinely scary — experience to see Concord Floral. For one thing it’s about teenagers and what it’s like to be one. And that … Continue reading →

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Tea and the end of the world: Escaped Alone, a guest 12thnight Fringe review by Alan Kellogg

Posted on August 23, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

Escaped Alone (Stage 9, Telephone Museum) Director Amy DeFelice has a keen eye for terrific theatre (runs in the family!) and has bestowed another gift to Edmontonians by staging this mysterious 2016 Caryl Churchill gem, which has dazzled Royal Court and … Continue reading →

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Welcoming presence, great story: Evacuated! A guest 12thnight Fringe review by Alan Kellogg

Posted on August 23, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

Evacuated! (Stage 10, Acacia Hall) Multi-threat American heartland talent Erika Kate MacDonald is back on the circuit with another winning solo show. Sometimes when you hear “memory play” invoked (not that she does, directly), a deep inner cringe is un-tethered. Then … Continue reading →

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The magic of a delightful play: The Importance of Being Earnest, a guest 12thnight Fringe review by Todd Babiak

Posted on August 23, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

The Importance of Being Earnest (Stage 15, Holy Trinity Anglican Church) Oscar Wilde understood the potential of the English language, to delight, better than almost anyone who came before or after him. This is how we can have two successful … Continue reading →

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