Category Archives: Reviews

Escape into the playful grown-up world of art: Chris Craddock’s Irma Voth at Theatre Network. A review

Posted on April 21, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Enter the Roxy, and see what a sense of possibility looks like.  A shallow stage is dominated by a beautiful translucent wall made entirely of framed windows. Windows that will glow promisingly, conjure paintings or cityscapes, … Continue reading →

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Cinderella: the Prince is having a ball! and also an election. A review

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Cinderella has always been the poster girl for the poor but upwardly mobile. Bide your time, miserable lackey: your dreams can come true. Karma’s on your side, long-term, if you’re oppressed by snarly step-relatives and a … Continue reading →

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The end of the line in Dublin by night: the poetry of Mark O’Rowe’s Terminus

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Irish triptych: Three brick gangways, with the sinister look of  autopsy slabs waiting for a body, up against three brick walls that tip forward and loom. Eerie industrial white noise as static in a dark theatre. … Continue reading →

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The resurrection of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Mayfield: a review

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a diverse T-shirt and jean crowd that drifts onto the Mayfield stage at the start of Jesus Christ Superstar. There’s even a swaggering older dude in a suit who strides in, and looks slightly sinister … Continue reading →

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9 parts of desire: a review of The Maggie Tree production

Posted on April 9, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca War can be survived (humans are extraordinarily resilient). But the experience can never be un-experienced. You’ll be carrying that thought with you out of the theatre when you see 9 Parts of Desire, the remarkable documentary/play … Continue reading →

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How Peter Pan got his groove: Peter and the Starcatcher at the Citadel

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “To have faith is to have wings,” declares says the earnest little smarty-pants Molly (Andrea Rankin) to a gaggle of skeptical onlookers in Peter and the Starcatcher. Faith, that is to say, in the theatre and … Continue reading →

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Bright Burning: a conflagration in the class divide. A review

Posted on March 31, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A sense of absurdity hangs over the group portrait in constant motion in Colleen Murphy’s Bright Burning, currently trashing a beautiful set on the Timms Centre stage. A kid (Jake Tkaczyk) comes down a marble staircase … Continue reading →

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The house of the rising son: The Fall of the House of Atreus, a review

Posted on March 26, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Selfie opp: “I Survived The Fall Of The House Of Atreus” says the hand-lettered sign in the lobby of the Backstage Theatre. “Yee Haw!” And there’s helpful signage, too, for the confused, the bemused, the congenitally … Continue reading →

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Waiting for Godot at the Serca Festival: a review

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It’s too much for one man,” says Vladimir gloomily of the perpetual stalemate that gets to the heart of the matter in Waiting For Godot. “On the other hand what’s the good of losing heart now, … Continue reading →

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The Believers: testing the limits of belief

Posted on March 16, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s one of those evenings of theatre when you emerge, rattled and intrigued, asking yourself and whoever’s outside smoking “what just happened there?”. Good question. One of the oddest, eeriest, most unnerving plays of the season … Continue reading →

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