Category Archives: Reviews

All for love: thoughts on Les Feluettes, Edmonton Opera’s season opener

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Love and death, jealousy and revenge, crime and punishment, repression and liberation, visions of fiery hell and fantastical apparitions who float down into the New World from the Old … there is nothing tentative, nothing cautious … Continue reading →

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Scare yourself, run away to the circus: Dead Centre of Town X, a review

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Even before the fog rolls in at Fort Edmonton Park , an abandoned midway on an autumn night is an eerie sight. An empty skeleton of a ferris wheel, rides without seats, boardwalks across empty fields, a … Continue reading →

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It’s the small stuff that counts: The Aliens, a review

Posted on October 14, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When stubbing out a cigarette or trying to bring on a sneeze count  as flurries of activity, you’re in the brave theatrical world of Annie Baker. Kicking over a plastic chair? Downright revolutionary. The fallback term … Continue reading →

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Igniting connections: a review of Ubuntu at the Citadel

Posted on October 13, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A son dreams nightly of his father. That’s how it starts. But what sets Ubuntu: The Cape Town Project on its zigzag course through two time periods 30 years apart is an inspired perpetual motion scene, … Continue reading →

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Soul royalty at the Mayfield: a review of Soul Sistas

Posted on October 12, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Holy smoke! Or as we say in the prairies, Holeeeee! If you haven’t seen the audacious concert show currently running — also dancing, jumping, rocking — at the Mayfield, you’re missing out (as I discovered just … Continue reading →

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A funny and wistful season finale at Teatro La Quindicina: Shocker’s Delight!, a review

Posted on September 29, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I’m concerned about our ability to function outside the academic world,” says Julia, a ballroom dance major at the University of Continental North America, to her childhood friend Markus, who’s in philosophy. The college pals are … Continue reading →

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In love with Shakespeare: the Citadel’s season-opener is a sumptuous love letter to theatre

Posted on September 22, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the entertainment world there’s no shortage of movies transformed into stage extravaganzas (thank Disney for a slew of them). It happens all the time, with motives no one would call pure. So it’s a special … Continue reading →

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The sounds of music: a strong cast of singers climbs every mountain

Posted on September 20, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the world catalogue of “favourite things” The Sound of Music gets its own gold star.  Just mention brown paper packages tied up in string, or goatherds, and something magical happens. The 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein … Continue reading →

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Getting your Gasp! back. The Cirque du Soleil’s Kurios: a cabinet of the curiouser and curiouser

Posted on July 21, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A burnished antique music box opens, and suddenly, set in motion, is a trapeze act with no trapeze. A strong man plants his feet and flings a beautiful woman into the air again and again; she … Continue reading →

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I Heard About Your Murder: a new Lemoine comedy reinvents the who-dunnit

Posted on July 14, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca An early exchange in I Heard About Your Murder, a teasing title with its own built-in line of inquiry, is a tip-off about the mystery concoction to follow.  Irritated by efforts to smooth out the awkward … Continue reading →

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