Tag Archives: Alberta oil and gas industry

Viscosity: Theatre Yes challenges preconceptions about big oil and the people who work it

Posted on November 6, 2018 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s not exactly a play, although there are actors. It’s not exactly journalism, although the monologues are transcribed (and edited) verbatim from interviews with real-life people. And you might resist calling it an exhibit, although you … Continue reading →

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An experiment in other selves: Rig Pig Fantasia, a 12thnight Fringe review

Posted on August 19, 2018 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Rig Pig Fantasia (Stage 1, Westbury Theatre) An eerie boreal forest of tall swaying translucent trees hangs from the sky. Sometimes they’re skeletal, backlit by an ominous red glow. Sometimes they seem to glow from within, … Continue reading →

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“I need you like water”: relationships in a time of oil in Last Chance Leduc

Posted on May 16, 2018 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The fulcrum of Katherine Koller’s Last Chance Leduc — the third in her Alberta Landworks Trilogy about human relationships destabilized by seismic shifts in industry — is the moment of Alberta’s gold rush. I refer, of … Continue reading →

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Katherine Koller’s Last Chance Leduc: marriage on the brink of the boom

Posted on May 10, 2018 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The play that opens tonight at the Backstage Theatre is poised at the moment of a dramatic shift — in thinking, in focus, in perspective. In Alberta in 1947, big oil was discovered near Leduc. One … Continue reading →

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