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An activist crime caper? Nicole Moeller’s Wildcat at Workshop West, a review

Posted on October 31, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Timeliness? Irony? The world provides, and sometimes theatre just nails it. There’s something downright uncanny about the arrival onstage of Wildcat in a week that will live in infamy in Alberta labour history. Workers’ rights, injustice, resistance … Continue reading →

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‘A major breach of technical security at the theatre’ cancels opening weekend of Workshop West’s Wildcat

Posted on October 24, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If you’re excited to see the much-anticipated premiere of the new Nicole Moeller crime caper Wildcat at Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, which was to have opened tonight, you’ll have to wait a bit longer. The production’s … Continue reading →

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Set now, in Edmonton, in the political landscape of Alberta: Wildcat, Nicole Moeller’s new crime caper at Workshop West

Posted on October 21, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca FUN. In a world of anxiety and dread, it’s an elusive concept, but a seductive one, says playwright Nicole Moeller unspooling time back to her inspiration for Wildcat. Her new crime caper premieres Friday with a … Continue reading →

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Springboards has sprung: the return of Workshop West’s signature new play festival

Posted on March 24, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A rush of new Canadian plays is happening this week in this theatre town. And the timing couldn’t be better for a made-in-Canada festival. With the return Tuesday of Springboards, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre’s signature new … Continue reading →

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A holly jolly “Christmas horror musical” at Workshop West: Krampus, a review

Posted on December 16, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If you’ve cracked your sweet tooth on the hard candied nut of family togetherness, or you’re blinded by the glare from your neighbour’s seasonal light display, there’s gruesome fun waiting for you at Workshop West. Straight … Continue reading →

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The hunger for omens gets … ominous for an obsessive sleuth. Dead Letter at Workshop West, a review

Posted on May 18, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The woman we meet in Dead Letter, Conni Massing’s dark and funny, mysterious and moving, new play — premiering at Workshop West Playwrights Theatre with an all-star cast in Heather Inglis’s production — is on a … Continue reading →

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Negotiating the darkness of the world: thoughts about This Is The Story Of The Child Ruled By Fear

Posted on February 1, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca We are, none of us, dread-resistant, times being what they are. That sense of being alone and untethered in a universe that’s a chaos of crises and emergencies is a feeling lots of us know. It’s … Continue reading →

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The freaky tangle of connections in the digital world: Mob, the thriller that opens the Workshop West season. A review

Posted on November 4, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The opening moments of Mob nail you to your seat, and there’s no getting relaxed after that in the Quebec thriller that is Workshop West’s genuinely disturbing season opener. A woman (Kristin Johnston), mysteriously traumatized, drives … Continue reading →

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The corrected version: The art of the thriller and what not to tell you about Mob, opening the Workshop West season. Meet star Kristin Johnston

Posted on October 26, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There are many things you can’t, mustn’t, know in advance about Mob. For your own good. So many, in fact, that it’s tricky for Kristin Johnston to talk about the hit Quebec thriller that opens the … Continue reading →

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The art of the thriller and what not to tell you about Mob, opening the Workshop West season. Meet star Kristin Johnston

Posted on October 26, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There are many things you can’t, mustn’t, know in advance about Mob. For your own good. So many, in fact, that it’s tricky for Kristin Johnston to talk about the hit Quebec thriller that opens the … Continue reading →

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