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The ticking explosive within! Bomb, a Fringe review

Posted on August 15, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

Bomb (Stage 4, MacEwan Fine Arts Walterdale Theatre) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a visceral absurdity about this clever, very dark multi-loaded stinger of a comedy that Pyretic Productions (well-named for its inflammatory proclivities), brings to the Fringe. And it’s … Continue reading →

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The plight of the single, in a couples world: the nutty hilarity of The Lost Sock Rescue Society, a Fringe review

Posted on August 15, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

The Lost Sock Rescue Society (Stage 28, Roots on Whyte) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In this nutty and inspired latest from the physical comedy and clown company Small Matters Productions (For Science!, The Spinsters), we’re at a volunteer recruitment session … Continue reading →

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It’s Fringe Eve, and Edmonton’s biggest opening night is coming up: five shows I’ve enjoyed before

Posted on August 13, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A year has been weirdly compressed. And somehow, magically, it’s the eve of the Fringe, the 44th annual edition of Edmonton’s mighty summer theatre bash. When the curtains go up Thursday night at 8 p.m., they … Continue reading →

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Two sensational celebrity trials inspire two new plays at the Fringe: The Cult of the Clitoris and Cadaver Synod, a preview

Posted on August 12, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Both, in their way, were celebrity trials. And both trials, in separately sensational ways, 1,128 years apart, have inspired two new plays premiering at the Fringe. Like theatre, history can be weirdly generous that way. Witness … Continue reading →

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A dark absurdist comedy introduces us to contemporary Ukrainian theatre: Bomb. A Fringe preview

Posted on August 12, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Can you name a single Ukrainian playwright? Me neither. Fringe Full of Stars is about to change that.    When director Lianna Makuch got her hands on Bomb, a dark, absurdist comedy by the contemporary Ukrainian … Continue reading →

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Fringe Full of Stars: further thoughts from 12thnight on how to get intrigued, and what to see

Posted on August 11, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Starting Thursday you have the fun of launching yourself into the galaxy of Fringe Full of Stars, the 44th annual edition of the oldest and biggest of the continent’s Fringes (and the prototype for the rest). … Continue reading →

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Are you lost in the stars? What to see at Fringe Full Of Stars: a little survey to get you started

Posted on August 7, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Starting Thursday, Edmonton’s best idea ever is back in action to screw up your bedtime, and make life more exciting. The 44th annual edition of our 11 day-and-night theatre bash, the biggest and oldest Fringe on … Continue reading →

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A new season, and a new artistic director, for Teatro Live! Farren Timoteo brings his blue-chip Teatro cred home

Posted on July 29, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Teatro Live! has a new season — and, starting Sept. 1,  a new artistic director. “Comedy is powerful…. That’s my place in the universe!” declares Farren Timoteo, looking delighted (his at-rest expression) after a day auditioning … Continue reading →

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Keeping it Canuck: a summer theatre trip east, this side of the border

Posted on July 27, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A funny thing happened on the way to NYC, and a 12thnight summer working holiday tradition in that great theatre city. Actually, not funny at all. A country came unravelled in unthinkable ways, the whole world … Continue reading →

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Summer theatre choices, including three in their last week: a little 12thnight survey

Posted on July 23, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Wakey wakey! It’s your last chance this week to catch … •The Lion King. Julie Taymor’s 1997 musical, a non-pareil triumph in conjuring an imaginary world, has been here a couple of times before under the … Continue reading →

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