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Miss Bennet gets a romantic comedy to call her own: Jane Austen revisited at the Citadel in a delightful holiday show
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the charmer of a holiday show up and running (well, alighting gracefully) on the Citadel’s Shoctor stage, characters are startled when they notice the live tree in the drawing room. In the course of Miss … Continue reading
“My first happy play…” Nancy McAlear makes her Citadel directing debut with Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It makes me … happy,” says Nancy McAlear, with a tiny hesitation and a smile of musing wonder — maybe about using that word. Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, the larky romantic comedy of the holiday … Continue reading
Happy hour from Bright Young Things: meet the stars of Fallen Angels
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “My mind is a mass of corruption,” Noel Coward told the Evening Standard in 1925. “England’s solid-gold jazz baby,” as his biographer John Lahr described him, was responding to the selection of epithets dusted off by … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bright Young Things, Edmonton theatre, Fallen Angels, Noel Coward, Varscona Theatre, Varscona Theatre Ensemble
The forgotten sister comes into her own: meet Mikaela Davies, star of Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I grew up with the kindest, cleverest, and most beautiful elder sisters in the country; and with the loudest, silliest, and prettiest younger sisters in the country,” says Mary, in the romantic comedy that brings a … Continue reading
Enter smiling, glass in hand: the Varscona Theatre Ensemble season begins with Fallen Angels
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the effervescent 1924 comedy that opens Thursday on the Varscona stage, you will see two married women, bored with contentment and longing for passion, restore the zing of excitement to their lives. They levitate into … Continue reading
If you could live forever… Tuck Everlasting the musical at St. Albert Children’s Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If “the music!” is the answer, what is the question? It seems wise to consult musical theatre experts. Janice Flower and Jackie Pooke, director/artistic director and choreographer respectively, are on the phone explaining their attraction to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Arden Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Janice Flower, St. Albert, St. Albert Children's Theatre, Tuck Everlasting
A love story and a cautionary tale: a riveting production of What A Young Wife Ought To Know at Theatre Network
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Love,” Sophie tells us near the start of What A Young Wife Ought To Know, “is a strange sort of madness that comes over you and makes the future go dark.” In Hannah Moscovitch’s gut-wrenching coming-of-age … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, birth control movement, Edmonton theatre, Hannah Moscovitch, Theatre Network, women's sexual health
What A Young Wife Ought To Know: a 20s love story with a modern reverb opens the Theatre Network season:
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Ladies, you’ve come by it, have you? Can I ask, do you tell your Husbands…that you’ve come by it, or…do you….keep it from them….?” — Sophie in What A Young Wife Ought To Know, Hannah Moscovitch In … Continue reading
Raising a little hell: Canada 151 at the Mayfield. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You know you’re in Canada when the Beachcombers theme is in the air pre-show. And the band arrives onstage in lumberjack shirts. And your heart melts just a little when everyone in the opening production … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Canada 151, Canadian music, Edmonton theatre, Kate Ryan, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, musical revues, Van Wilmott
How to meet people you never meet: thoughts on Viscosity
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Life is full of surprises. Last night I found myself sitting at a bar stool next to a woman I’d just never run into in my usual life of 7:30 curtain times. She’s a heavy-equipment operator … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Heather Inglis, Oil Patch, Theatre Yes, verbatim theatre
