Tag Archives: Edmonton indie theatre

How tough do you have to be? Surviving trauma: Tough Guy gets a visceral premiere production, a review

Posted on November 1, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Tough Guy, an exhilarating new play by Hayley Moorhouse, a queer up-and-coming filmmaker tries to justify turning their camera on their friends, survivors of a shooting in queer nightclub mere days before, and reeling from … Continue reading →

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Lethal power games as performance art: The Maids introduces a new indie theatre

Posted on November 1, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s something exactly right about entering the theatre through an unmarked door, down the stairs and into a space that invites reinvention and expands before your very eyes. It’s a world ready and waiting for actors … Continue reading →

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The Children: a mystery, and a subtle Wild Side production. A review

Posted on March 13, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If there ever was a play that domesticates a big issue, to find a more expansively human one, The Children is it. By the hot young Brit playwright Lucy Kirkwood, the fascinating  2015 “eco-thriller” that Wild … Continue reading →

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Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play: A wild ride through the evolution of pop culture. A review

Posted on November 30, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The End. So. What then? There’s something indestructible, maybe even sustaining, about the collective act of storytelling. Something viral, in the bloodstream, possibly toxic and radioactive, that can outlast apocalypses. When society shatters completely and we’re … Continue reading →

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Strange, playful, and of this moment: The Skin Of Our Teeth from Bright Young Things. A review.

Posted on November 24, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s strange, it’s playful. And it gets right to the heart of the dark, chaotic, freak-out of the present moment.  That’s The Skin Of Our Teeth, the high-spirited, anarchic, category-resistant 1942 “comedy” (for want of a … Continue reading →

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“Have you milked the mammoth?” Thornton Wilder’s The Skin Of Our Teeth, the wildest play of the season. A preview

Posted on November 22, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The weirdest, wildest play of the season — let’s be bold and call it in advance — is opening tonight on the Varscona stage. It’s not new, though it feels like it might be. The Skin … Continue reading →

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Heather Inglis is Workshop West Playwrights Theatre’s new artistic producer

Posted on November 12, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Workshop West Playwrights Theatre has a new “artistic producer.”  She’s Heather Inglis, the founder and artistic director of the adventurous Edmonton-based indie company Theatre Yes. With the departure of Vern Thiessen after five years as artistic … Continue reading →

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E Day: Jason Chinn’s new political comedy inspired by the 2015 election sweep

Posted on October 15, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “How did we get here?” Playwright Jason Chinn remembers a night four years ago, a night like no other in Alberta. And since he was volunteering with the campaign that swept Rachel Notley’s NDP into office, … Continue reading →

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The uneasy geometry of the love triangle: Pinter’s Betrayal. A review

Posted on May 25, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I think I thought you knew,” says a man to his oldest friend in one of In one of the most quietly unnerving scenes you’re ever likely to see onstage. In Betrayal, Harold Pinter’s infinitely clever … Continue reading →

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The curious incident of Terry and the Dog: the new Collin Doyle premieres at Edmonton Actors Theatre

Posted on May 9, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the archive of Edmonton Actors Theatre — an award-winning indie company with a solemn name but wildly playful theatrical appetites — there’s everything but the kitchen sink. There’s a a gleeful, insurrectionist satire, Fatboy. There’s … Continue reading →

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