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Writing for women of a certain age: meet Jen Silverman, the author of The Roommate

Posted on October 25, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Jen Silverman is the New York-based playwright/ screenwriter/ novelist who wrote the comedy The Roommate. Last produced at Chicago’s Steppenwolf in 2018, it’s the season-opener at Shadow Theatre. She made time in her schedule for some … Continue reading →

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Do shebangs come in partials? Simone et le whole shebang opens the L’UniThéâtre season

Posted on October 22, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a certain heat-seeking rom-com engine driving Simone et le whole shebang, the raucous, tart-tongued season-opener at L’UniThéâtre, Edmonton’s francophone theatre. At the centre is an unexpected encounter between two hostile, elderly characters, who are up … Continue reading →

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Type A fabulous: Baroness Bianka’s Bloodsongs at Northern Light. A review.

Posted on October 21, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The chandeliers give off a lurid red glow. The bandstand will make you smile; a sparkly set of outsized teeth with pointy incisors, the inspiration of director/ set and costume designer Trevor Schmidt. The stage accoutrements? … Continue reading →

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Fight Night gets the vote out, in a fun and disconcerting way

Posted on October 18, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Uncanny. It’s all about us. Sorry to be self-centred, but it’s hard to believe that Fight Night, a fascinating five-year-old show from the innovative Belgian collective Ontroerend Goed, wasn’t custom-made for us, right now. So here … Continue reading →

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Baroness Bianka’s Bloodsongs: a bloodthirsty cabaret to launch the season at Northern Light

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Everyone’s grandmother has an accordian in the basement,” says Kristin Johnston, pointing at a battered case with judicious applications of duct tape. This venerable objet is not some sign of random self-improvement on Johnston’s part. She’s … Continue reading →

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Simone et le whole shebang: the season opens at L’UniThéâtre

Posted on October 16, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the intricate dark comedy that launches the L’UniThéâtre season Friday, a couple of 60-something-plus strangers from elsewhere, sporting symmetrically opposed damages, meet  — in a nursing home in Fort McMurray, the unofficial Canadian home of … Continue reading →

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E Day: Jason Chinn’s new political comedy inspired by the 2015 election sweep

Posted on October 15, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “How did we get here?” Playwright Jason Chinn remembers a night four years ago, a night like no other in Alberta. And since he was volunteering with the campaign that swept Rachel Notley’s NDP into office, … Continue reading →

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Why do we vote the way we do? Fight Night is on it

Posted on October 14, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca No doubt about it: the star avant-garde Belgian theatre collective Ontroerend Goed has an exquisite sense of timing. This week they bring to the Citadel’s new alternative Highwire series a show that throws this question at … Continue reading →

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Giving thanks for theatre: the long weekend on E-town stages

Posted on October 11, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

  By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s the moment to be thankful for Edmonton’s most captivating arts asset – our theatre scene. Many possibilities are waiting for you this weekend, including a macabre entertainment spun from our own neglected history. And … Continue reading →

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Dead Centre of Town unearths our dark civic secrets

Posted on October 8, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca We have a checkered past, my friends. You could say we’re haunted. For a dozen years now, in the season of ghostly chills, Catch The Keys Productions has been taking us on location, into the boneyard … Continue reading →

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