Tag Archives: Edmonton Fringe Festival

Fringe review: Blood Countess

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Blood Countess (Stage 9, Telus Phone Museum) A whispering campaign echoes in the darkness in the atmospheric opening moments of Blood Countess. “Countess Dracula” the voices hiss. “The Countess is a witch!”  Candles flicker across the … Continue reading →

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Fringe review: Fruit Flies Like A Banana

Posted on August 15, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Fruit Flies Like A Banana (Stage 37, Suzanne Thibadeau Auditorium0 “Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.” This epigrammatic wisdom sets the tone for an exuberant show in which classical music goes rollerskating, … Continue reading →

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Fringe review: Shadowlands

Posted on August 15, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Shadowlands (Stage 5, King Edward Elementary School) This odd, enigmatic, ambitious little play by and starring Edmonton artist Savanna Harvey takes us behind the scenes (so to speak) in Life: life at the cellular level, life before … Continue reading →

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Review: The Ballad of Frank Allen

Posted on August 15, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Ballad of Frank Allen (Stage 13, Old Strathcona Public Library) In the international register of theatre premises (small-cast musical comedy division), here’s an entry that should get its own citation: what if a tiny man lived … Continue reading →

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Fringe review: Picnics at the Asylum

Posted on August 15, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Picnics at the Asylum (Stage 9, Telus Phone Museum) The eccentric character who gets conjured in this personal memoir is loud, colourful, fun-loving, generous with his affections. He loves his kids; they adore him. He sings … Continue reading →

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Fringe review: How I Learned To Hug

Posted on August 15, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca How I Learned To Hug (Stage 26, The Almanac) At the outset of his riotous one-man comedy/memoir How I Learned To Hug, the uniquely manic Australian performer Jon Bennett reveals the Montreal airport encounter when Security … Continue reading →

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Fringe review: Get Me The F#ck Out Of Edmonton

Posted on August 15, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

  “Get Me The F#ck out of Edmonton” – and other ramblings of a fringe has-been (Stage 8, Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Here’s the thing about Wes Borg: he is Fringe history — from the top of … Continue reading →

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Fringe review: Edgar Allan

Posted on August 15, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Edgar Allan (Stage 38, Auditorium at Campus Saint-Jean) “Everything fun is a little bit dangerous,” proposes one of the eerie songs in Edgar Allan. Exactly. And here’s the show to prove it. In this unnerving little tale … Continue reading →

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Fringe review: The Merkin Sisters

Posted on August 15, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Merkin Sisters (Stage 1, Westbury Theatre) What is art? ask the fractious siblings jockeying for stage supremacy in this raucously inventive satire of contemporary performance art. The Merkin Sisters (Ingrid Hansen and Stéphanie Morin-Robert, expert … Continue reading →

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Fringe review: Szeretlek: A Hungarian Love Story

Posted on August 15, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

Szeretlek: A Hungarian Love Story (Stage 4, Academy at King Edward) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There is an amiably homemade quality about Szeretlek: A Hungarian Love Story, a modest collage of family anecdotes about a post-war romance. In it, real-life couple … Continue reading →

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