Tag Archives: Charles Dickens

It’s the most wonderful time of the year: A Christmas Carol at the Citadel, a review

Posted on December 2, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The ‘hap-happiest season of all,’ as the familiar song has it, can officially begin. A Christmas Carol is back onstage at the Citadel for the 23rd year. Daryl Cloran’s production is thrillingly big, bigger than last … Continue reading →

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A shared responsibility for human happiness: A Christmas Carol is back at the Citadel, live. A review.

Posted on December 3, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Snow’s a given. Sunset before happy hour, also a given. But in Edmonton it’s never really “beginning to look a lot like Christmas” till A Christmas Carol opens at the Citadel. That’s just the way it … Continue reading →

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Off the page and onto the stage, with murderous intent: Murder He Wrote, a Fringe review

Posted on August 18, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Murder He Wrote: A Dickens Of An Hour (La Cité francophone theatre) The stories are vividly dramatic, ’tis true. But the translation of Charles Dickens’s rich, descriptive prose style, and his gallery of vivid characters, into … Continue reading →

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‘Light during the longest nights’: the Citadel’s film adaptation of A Christmas Carol. A review.

Posted on December 18, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Light!” declares the twinkly old man at a piano on the stage of a big dark empty theatre. “Light during the longest nights.” It’s what every ghost wants, he says. And he’s got the ghost story … Continue reading →

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A Christmas Carol for our time: the Citadel brings its production to you, at home

Posted on December 1, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Some day soon we all will be together/ If the fates allow/ Until then we’ll have to muddle through somehow…. If there ever was a Christmas carol for 2020, it’s got to be Have Yourself A Merry Little … Continue reading →

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“I’m not the man I was….” A new Christmas Carol at the Citadel. A review

Posted on December 6, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…. Front-rack anything in the colour red: “red at the primary point of visual contact increases sales by 5.4 per cent.” This retail wisdom comes courtesy of Mr. Ebenezer … Continue reading →

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Do not ask for whom the Belles toil (a tale of two actors, two theatres, two cities, and a show): A Christmas Carol

Posted on December 5, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca They met 17 years ago as kids in the single-digit age bracket, in a show that would be a life-changer for both of them. They each landed a high-impact role in the two-year-old production, big and … Continue reading →

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Keeping Christmas in our hearts: A Christmas Carol to lift your spirits at the Citadel. A review

Posted on December 7, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?” For 19 years, Edmonton theatre audiences have had their own special answer, hand-delivered from the stage live and in person. It’s come to … Continue reading →

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Keeping Christmas in our hearts: A Christmas Carol to lift our spirits at the Citadel. A review.

Posted on December 7, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?” For 19 years, Edmonton theatre audiences have had their own special answer, hand-delivered from the stage live and in person. It’s come to … Continue reading →

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“The season when abundance rejoices”: a splendid Christmas Carol retires at the Citadel after 19 seasons

Posted on December 5, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Christmas, sir, is a cheat!” snaps Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge with a grimace of distaste that may strike a chord in your own soul — especially if you’ve done time in a mall, barraged by retail jollity … Continue reading →

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