Tag Archives: Karen Hines

The dark glitter of a dream cruise on the River Styx: Pochsy IV. A new Karen Hines satire at Theatre Network. A review

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s an unnerving glitter and queasy hilarity to the satire that launches the season at Theatre Network. “I dreamed you, I manifested you,” proposes the figure who appears before us — a tarnished angel? a wicked … Continue reading

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Couch dwellers arise! It’s a crazy week in Edmonton theatre

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a week in Edmonton theatre that’s crazy with possibilities. Which is to say this is no time to be thinking of staying home, much less renewing your dibs on the couch. Two Edmonton theatres launch their … Continue reading

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She’s back! Karen Hines’s toxic pixie returns in Pochsy IV, to launch the Theatre Network season

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca She’s back. We met Pochsy at the Fringe in 1992, a smudgy-eyed chalky-faced kewpie with a lethal mixture of charm and vitriol coursing through her veins — and that sweet Clara Bow smile. In Pochsy’s Lip … Continue reading

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The dizzying optic of All The Little Animals I Have Eaten, a new Karen Hines satire at Shadow. A review

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You won’t have seen anything quite like All The Small Animals I Have Eaten, the play that’s now running in the Shadow Theatre season. And because it’s by Karen Hines, a brilliant original of a satirist, … Continue reading

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All The Little Animals I Have Eaten: a carnivorous Karen Hines satire, at Shadow Theatre

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca My name is Frankie, and I will be your server tonight…. All The Little Animals I Have Eaten, the dark and intricate Karen Hines comedy that unsheaths its cutlery tonight at Shadow Theatre takes us to … Continue reading

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