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“Have you milked the mammoth?” Thornton Wilder’s The Skin Of Our Teeth, the wildest play of the season. A preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The weirdest, wildest play of the season — let’s be bold and call it in advance — is opening tonight on the Varscona stage. It’s not new, though it feels like it might be. The Skin … Continue reading
Bed and Breakfast: a hit comedy to open the Theatre Network season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The theatre repertoire has a fulsome measure of stories about gay kids who pull up stakes in their small-town lives and flee to freedom in the big city. In the hit Canadian comedy that opens at … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Blyth Festival, Canadian comedy, Edmonton theatre, Mark Crawford, Roxy on Gateway, Theatre Network
Heather Inglis is Workshop West Playwrights Theatre’s new artistic producer
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Workshop West Playwrights Theatre has a new “artistic producer.” She’s Heather Inglis, the founder and artistic director of the adventurous Edmonton-based indie company Theatre Yes. With the departure of Vern Thiessen after five years as artistic … Continue reading
Three Ladies: a ‘journey of healing’ to open the Fringe “Off Season”
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You might flee violence. But you can never escape trauma, says Lady Vanessa Cardona. The damages linger, and infiltrate your life, your relationships, your identity. “Trauma lives in the body.” Three Ladies, a new and intricate … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Fringe Theatre Off-Season, Remix The Ritual, spoken word poetry
Everybody knows that the bird is the word: Class of ’63 at the Mayfield, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca OK boomer. Yes, my friends, you may have heard: There was a time when you could wear white socks with a suit in a non-ironic way. Nostalgia comes with a great band, first-rate singers, a fulsome … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Mayfield Theatre, musical revues, Will Marks
From the Fringe to Tudor-mania in the big wide world (via E-Town). Meet the creators of Six
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe, there were 3,398 shows. Only one of them continues to play to sold-out houses in the West End, and opens on Broadway in March. That would be Six The Musical, the … Continue reading
“Embrace your weirdness”: the world as seen by Girl Brain, coming to the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Overheard out in the real world — a cafe maybe, or a wine bar: Three women at the next table are laughing uproariously. “That’s a sketch!” floats your way through the air, like a winged mantra. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton comedy, Edmonton theatre, Girl Brain, House Series, Roxy Performance Series, sketch comedy
In hot pursuit of justice: The Ballad of Peachtree Rose. A review of Workshop West’s season-opener
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Welcome to the team!” says a mysterious executive (Laura Raboud), to the street kid she’s just recruited. “I really believe in you.” Team spirit: It’s music to the ears of Peach (Alexandra Dawkins), who ricochets through … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Nicole Moeller, thrillers, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
The Particulars: the invasion of the minutiae. Punctuate! is back in town
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Poor Gordon. He has a complicated problem. His life, an infestation of minutiae moment to moment, is driving him crazy. Especially at night. The scratching of vermin in the walls. The chewing of insects in his … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Matthew MacKenzie, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, The Theatre Centre
Women in their 50s get sitcom Botox: The Roommate opens the Shadow season. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s impossible to know anything about the season-opening two-hander comedy at Shadow Theatre — including its title — without thinking of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple (female version). The Roommate, by the young (and multi-award-winning) American playwright … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Jen Silverman, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
