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Into the woods, a screwball talent search: On The Banks of the Nut at Teatro. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In On The Banks Of the Nut, the vintage Stewart Lemoine screwball comedy getting an expertly acted revival at Teatro Live! (its first in 15 years) you’ll repeatedly hear six words bound to up the ante … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, screwball comedy, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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‘You felt like home right from the get-go’. KaldrSaga, Cardiac’s ‘new queer, old Norse cabaret’. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a very unusual storyteller’s cabaret happening in a handsome brick- and wood-lined room in the river valley. Norse mythology: where friends meet. And if the gods are overseeing the whole operation from their own spot … Continue reading
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Tagged ArtsHub Ortona, Cardiac Theatre, Edmonton theatre
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Making merry with murder: A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder at Grindstone, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Murder most foul? Yes, we laughed and laughed. How can you not be tickled by an evening of inspired wickedness in the theatre where you find yourself charmed by a serial killer, and overcome with mirth … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway musicals, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, Orange Hall
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Backyard curtain time: Theatre Yes brings it home with The Doorstep Plays
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The ancient contract between The People and The Theatre gets an intriguing clause, and the personal touch, in the latest venture by the ever-adventurous Theatre Yes. With The Doorstep Plays, they bring the theatre to you … Continue reading
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Horseplay, an irresistible new play about a bond beyond the traces, at Workshop West. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a bright buoyant sparkle to Horseplay, the funny, dreamy, heart-breaker of a season-ender at Workshop West. It’s a new play, about things like friendship and ambition, success and sacrifice, by a young theatre artist whose … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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The self in a bind: the RISER New Works Festival opens with Calla Wright’s Binding
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca New this year the RISER New Works Festival began its weekend of performances and workshops last night with a work-in-progress production of a challenging and playful one-human many-puppet show. Destined for Azimuth Theatre’s Expanse Festival in … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival, RISER Edmonton
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A theatrical index to a beloved novel: Little Women at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The March siblings, growing up in genteel poverty in Civil War America, might well be literature’s most famous sister act since Jane Austen’s Bennets. And ever since they stepped out from the pages of Louisa May … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, Stratford Festival
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Family secrets and country air: Where You Are at Shadow, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s no shortage of funny one-liners in Where You Are. And a lot of them happen in the opening scenes of the carefully constructed 2019 comedy by the Canadian playwright Kristen Da Silva. We meet two … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Kristen Da Silva, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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“Is anyone out there?” En route to love, the long way round: Alphabet Line at Fringe Theatre. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “My name is Duncan J Hayes. I live in Yonker on the Alphabet Line. Is anyone out there?” The recurring refrain in Alphabet Line is a call out into the wild blue yonder of the Saskatchewan … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Prairie Strange Productions
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We’re all good people, right? Up the property ladder in Radiant Vermin, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a week when “housing crisis” and “starter home” got batted around like pingpong balls (in both our official languages) at the leaders’ debates, here’s a Faustian comedy that’s eerily in sync. It’s dark and smiley, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Philip Ridley
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