Tag Archives: Edmonton theatre

What have we got that other Kids’ Fests don’t? St. Albert’s unique Children’s Theatre

Posted on May 29, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For more than 20 years, the hottest ticket at the St. Albert International Children’s Festival, the festivities that officially herald the arrival of summer, has not been a children’s entertainer with sing-along proclivities and a TV … Continue reading →

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In a big world, the enchantment of small: the Kids’ Fest is back

Posted on May 27, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.” — Tom Stoppard On being a kid. Do you remember that mysterious childhood tingle that goes through your bones when wood comes to life and … Continue reading →

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The art of Indigenous storytelling comes to life: meet Josh Languedoc

Posted on May 25, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I’ve always been a storyteller,” says the Saugeen First Nation playwright/ actor/ improviser/ director Josh Languedoc. “It’s just been there … in my bones.” He can thank his Indigenous heritage, and its great oral tradition for … Continue reading →

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Fringe ‘O’ Saurus Rex, bigger than ever and ready to roar this summer

Posted on May 23, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca He’s the monster who started small, rampaged through Old Strathcona like his own pleasure garden, and grew and grew. And he seems to have a history that goes back to the pre- of everything. As announced Wednesday, … Continue reading →

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Planting seeds for kids theatre: the 17th annual Sprouts Festival

Posted on May 18, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For 17 springs now, Concrete Theatre has planted new plays at their annual Sprouts Festival — and watered them for future seasons. The idea from the start was to stimulate growth in the Canadian theatre repertoire … Continue reading →

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Escape Room theatre adventure puzzle: The Snow Queen is Azimuth’s latest collaboration

Posted on May 17, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In The Snow Queen, a strange and haunting fairy tale by the 19th century Danish master Hans Christian Andersen, a magic troll mirror distorts everything it reflects. It shatters, scattering icy splinters across the world. Anyone … Continue reading →

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“I need you like water”: relationships in a time of oil in Last Chance Leduc

Posted on May 16, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The fulcrum of Katherine Koller’s Last Chance Leduc — the third in her Alberta Landworks Trilogy about human relationships destabilized by seismic shifts in industry — is the moment of Alberta’s gold rush. I refer, of … Continue reading →

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A man, his ghosts, his dog, his quest for meaning: Terry and the Dog, a review of Collin Doyle’s mysterious new play

Posted on May 11, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I’m trying to find meaning here,” Terry tells us in the very first line of Terry and the Dog. It’s a theme he’ll return to at the end, and regularly in between. So are we all, … Continue reading →

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Seek out Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story at the Citadel. A review

Posted on May 10, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “We all come out of the same box,” declares the top-hatted bushy-bearded Wanderer (Ben Caplan) who’s just emerged from an outsized shipping container at the start of Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story. What is so … Continue reading →

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Katherine Koller’s Last Chance Leduc: marriage on the brink of the boom

Posted on May 10, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The play that opens tonight at the Backstage Theatre is poised at the moment of a dramatic shift — in thinking, in focus, in perspective. In Alberta in 1947, big oil was discovered near Leduc. One … Continue reading →

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