Tag Archives: Citadel Theatre

Tell Us What Happened: sexual assault and social media, in Michelle Robb’s new play at Workshop West

Posted on May 6, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The new play that premieres Thursday in Heather Inglis’s Workshop West production invites us into a circle of young female friends who find themselves in crisis in the fraught border country between social media and the … Continue reading →

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Reading the signs: The Herd premieres at the Citadel. A review.

Posted on April 10, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The stage is dominated by a stunning screen — glowing, translucent,  undulating like the prairies, with a graceful open-work lattice (Indigenous Tiffany?). In The Herd the boundary between the present and the past, this world and other … Continue reading →

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Jane Eyre lives in a haunted world: Erin Shields’ new adaptation at the Citadel. A review

Posted on April 6, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The opening image of Jane Eyre, currently premiering on the Citadel’s Maclab stage through Sunday, is a solitary little girl reading in a pool of light, enclosed in space by blank window frames. The orphan heroine … Continue reading →

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An Indigenous prophecy and a rare birth: The Herd premieres at the Citadel. Meet playwright Kenneth T. Williams

Posted on April 5, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Herd, premiering this week at the Citadel, is powered by the rarest of rare events: the birth of twin white buffalo calves on a First Nations ranch. It comes attached to a sacred Indigenous prophecy … Continue reading →

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The Citadel announces a new Size Large season, led by two new Canadian musicals

Posted on March 28, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca After two contortionist years of stops and starts, indefinite postponements, cancellations cast hopefully as delays, re-bookings, digital work-arounds, the Citadel Theatre has cheering news. And it’s on a grand scale. “It’s big and it’s busy … … Continue reading →

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Jane Eyre steps off the page and onto the Citadel stage, in a new Erin Shields adaptation

Posted on March 15, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.” — Jane Eyre In the new play getting its world premiere at the Citadel Thursday … Continue reading →

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Meet the Mischief-makers, creators of comic havoc (witness Peter Pan Goes Wrong at the Citadel)

Posted on March 8, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The three creators of Mischief Theatre‘s Peter Pan Goes Wrong were in town last week to watch the North American debut of their 2013 play unleash theatrical chaos on the Citadel mainstage. The trio of Londoners … Continue reading →

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Shoring up the world against cosmic chaos: the fun of Peter Pan Goes Wrong, a review

Posted on March 4, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “All the world is made of faith and trust and pixie dust.”  True, J.M. Barrie, the creator of the boy who wouldn’t grow up, was not actually alluding to the world of live theatre in this … Continue reading →

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Making Mischief (and laughter) en route to Neverland: Peter Pan Goes Wrong at the Citadel

Posted on February 28, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Funny how people laugh out loud (and maybe wince a little) when you casually mention the title of the production that arrives on and above the Citadel mainstage starting  Thursday. Peter Pan Goes Wrong, after all, … Continue reading →

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Melanie Piatocha: theatre has lost a bright talent and a questing spirit

Posted on February 15, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In this bleak mid-winter of theatre, heartbreaking news of the January death of actor Melanie Piatocha at 36 seems particularly cruel. The abrupt loss of a talent so expansive, and a quester so spirited, so restless, … Continue reading →

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