Tag Archives: Edmonton Fringe

The world is on fire and there’s silence in the land of dreams: Patina, a Fringe review

Posted on August 17, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Patina (Old Strathcona Performing Arts) What in the world is happening to the world? It’s on fire. It’s drowning. It’s melting. Its axis is slipping. Patina Bellweather (Rebecca Starr), the official child minder in Smaland, “the … Continue reading →

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A fizzy offshore reunion: Destination Wedding, a Fringe review

Posted on August 14, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Destination Wedding (Westbury Theatre) Like the drinks at a tropical all-inclusive — where you have no serious cultural obligations except buying jewelry with seashells in it and having fun — the clues keep coming in this … Continue reading →

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The body-shaming knot unravelled, in a cunning little play: Woman Caught Unaware, a Fringe review

Posted on August 13, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Woman Caught Unaware (Varscona Theatre) In this surprising, cunningly written little 2018 play by the Brit writer Annie Fox, an older woman (a woman of a certain age, the delicate way of saying over 50 and … Continue reading →

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It’s Fringe Eve, the moment to consider intriguing prospects in a year to experiment

Posted on August 11, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s Fringe Eve (the night the green onion fairy leaves a special stay-awake pill under your pillow). And lordie lordie, our giant summer alternative theatre extravaganza is turning 40. The big four-oh? During a pandemic? A … Continue reading →

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The Fringe returns to its experimental roots: tickets go on sale Wednesday at noon

Posted on August 3, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The name of this year’s edition of the Edmonton Fringe is itself is a spirit-lifter, par excellence: Together We Fringe. It’s a salute to live gathering — in a nutshell exactly what we’ve been missing in … Continue reading →

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Together We Fringe: the second annual live Telethon happens Friday

Posted on July 29, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Last year about this time, we were still reeling from the woulda/coulda been’s — and the heartbreak that the 39th annual Fringe was cancelled. That was a first. And so was the telethon that The Fringe … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on the Plain Janes’ Scenes From The Sidewalk the sequel

Posted on July 20, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You have to hand it to the catastrophe that is the pandemic: it’s impossible now to take for granted the “live” in live theatre. “Going out to the theatre,” a phrase to be tossed off expectantly … Continue reading →

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‘A Fringe Event’: what to expect as the Fringe goes back to its roots

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Solstice … yeah whatever. It’s impossible to think of summer without visions of the Fringe, dancing in the outskirts of your brain and gradually moving in for full occupancy. In the four decades they’ve been entwined, … Continue reading →

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Follow the ‘once upon a time’ through the fairy tale world: The Secret in the Wings at Studio Theatre

Posted on April 28, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Don’t let the ‘happily-ever-after’s fool you. Fairy tales are not, contrary to popular belief, a Disney invention, the have-a-great-life tag to rom-coms on a roll. The production that opens today online, in the Studio Theatre season,  … Continue reading →

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Rapid Fire Theatre is back live, across the river

Posted on October 19, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Flexibility!” declares Matt Schuurman. “It’s all about being flexible, in a space that’s flexible….” He’s talking about improv, to be sure, a theatrically acrobatic subject on which he is an expert practitioner, mentor, producer. But the … Continue reading →

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