Tag Archives: Jim Guedo

Joni Mitchell: Songs of a Prairie Girl, a ‘theatrical collage’ of a legendary artist, at Theatre Network

Posted on March 4, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “We’re captive on the carousel of time/ We can’t return, we can only look/ Behind,  from where we came….” The Circle Game, Joni Mitchell, 1966 The show that opens Thursday on the Theatre Network mainstage is … Continue reading →

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Wild Side Productions brings a hot-button ‘eco-thriller’ to the Roxy: The Children

Posted on March 12, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The wild side (to borrow the name of the indie theatre company) is where the questions live. The answers are conditional, elusive, to be discussed.  “I’m drawn to plays that ask more questions than give answers,” … Continue reading →

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Can life move forward after great trauma? Poison, a review

Posted on March 18, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The unexpected thing about Poison isn’t its intensity. After all, its starting point is unimaginable loss. No, the unexpected thing about Poison, as you’ll see in this stunningly acted Wild Side production directed by Jim Guedo, … Continue reading →

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The byways of grief: director Jim Guedo talks about Poison

Posted on March 15, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The play that opens tonight in the Roxy Performance Series introduces audiences here to an award-winning Dutch playwright whose reputation continues to expand in Europe and around the world in eight languages (to date). Poison, Lot … Continue reading →

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The Ladies Foursome: the short game goes long. A review

Posted on February 11, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hitting a tiny ball with a skinny stick? A long long way into the distance into a hole you can’t even see?  To the non-golfer especially, the whole point of that particularly maddening game — alluded … Continue reading →

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Nuns get down, and raise your spirits: Sister Act at MacEwan’s snazzy new theatre

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s something pretty sweet about christening a new theatre with a musical that includes an all-inclusive singing benediction like the one you’ll hear in Act II of Sister Act: “Bless the songs we’re gonna sing./ Bless … Continue reading →

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