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A world of uncertainty: a playground for improv. Dungeons, Dragons, and Die-Nasty
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a world of uncertainty, improv makes perfect sense. It’s no coincidence that in a crisis, award-winning artists in this improv-crazy theatre town have stepped up to the challenge, and improvised new ways to take performance … Continue reading
Improvised Star Wars on the planet YEG, at the Grindstone
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Spring seat sale: I visited the planet YEG last night, a gritty post-apocalyptic landscape (and cantina) “far from everything that’s really happening.” Kanuck, cantina proprietor and aspirational Bounty Hunter in training, had evidently screwed up his … Continue reading
Monday nite special: seductive looks, upward mobility in CAL-gry, as Die-Nasty soaps return
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Welcome to the archive of lingering glances and lip-quivering gazes: troubled, dreamy, steamy, wistful, reflective, yearning, sultry, moody, sultry-moody crossover. Yes, the new season of Die-Nasty — “Die-Nasty does Dynasty,” makes Edmonton’s award-winning live improvised weekly … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Die-Nasty, Dynasty, Edmonton improv comedy, Edmonton theatre, improvised soap opera, soap opera, Varscona Theatre
Oil money, glamour, seduction, betrayal … the new season of Die-Nasty starts Monday
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s 1983. And world-class cities don’t come any world-classier than the one down the road. Yes, it’s in the gleaming cloud-capp’d towers of Calgary, that fabled Shangri-La of wealth and power and world classiness, oiled by, … Continue reading
Gordon’s Big Bald Head unleashed on any play: a review of improv comedy at its most deluxe
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Gordon’s Big Bald Head: The Play’s The Thing (Stage 12, Varscona Theatre) There is a trio of performers at this Fringe who do something insanely difficult better than anyone else anywhere. Armed only with a Fringe … Continue reading
Posted in Fringe 2017
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Edmonton improv comedy, Gordon's Big Bald Head
Márquez meets Buster Keaton in Speechless, at Improvaganza
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Even by the globe-trotting, frontier-busting standards of the international improv comedy world, Speechless is an unlikely creation. Two acrobatic circus-trained improvisers from Bogotá, Colombia and a female DJ from Winnipeg? Come on, the odds-against factor doesn’t … Continue reading
