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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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Get your Fairy Godmother on the case: Cinderella is coming to town

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight. ca “Impossible, for a plain yellow pumpkin to become a golden carriage./ Impossible, for a plain country bumpkin and a prince to join in marriage….”  Impossible? Well, hang on … actually, there is a precedent. And you’ll see … Continue reading →

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Wanna tour night-time Dublin? Terminus takes us on a “metaphysical odyssey”

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Good storytelling isn’t just telling,” says director Jim Guedo. “A good storyteller makes you feel it’s happening in the present…. It’s in the now.”  And that ‘now’ gets darker, stranger, more brutal in the fantastical urban … Continue reading →

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La Raccourcie: a father/son confrontation at L’UniThéâtre

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There are mysteries at the heart of La Raccourcie, the 1991 two-hander by Quebec writer Jean-Rock Gaudreault that opens at L’UniThéâtre this week, in French with English surtitles. It’s a father-son confrontation in the woods that … Continue reading →

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Lighting a (bon)fire under improv

Posted on April 4, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Wrap your mind around this terrifying idea for an improv show:  What if an improviser found himself onstage in a fully rehearsed, costumed, blocked 30-minute play he knows nothing about — without a script, as a … Continue reading →

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