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“If I’m honest…”: 19 Weeks steps up to the wall of silence. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The woman we meet up close in 19 Weeks, folding laundry in a toy-strewn room, says “if I’m honest…” and “being honest …” and “in all honesty …” a lot. And then she looks right at … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Edmonton theatre, late-term pregnancy, Northern Light Theatre, Vanessa Sabourin
19 Weeks: “It’s not something anybody talks about.” Emily Steel’s story of a harrowing real-life decision, her own
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “One of the things that made it so hard was that you feel completely isolated — because it’s not something anyone talks about. I had no reference points. I had nobody to talk to, nobody who’d … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Adelaide Fringe, Azimuth Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre
A new Ellen Chorley play is the centrepiece of the upcoming Northern Light season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The centrepiece of Northern Light Theatre’s upcoming season, announced Saturday, is a new play by one of Edmonton’s most unusual artists. Ellen Chorley, the director of Nextfest since 2016, is an award-winning playwright, actor, director, dramaturg, … Continue reading
Posted in News/Views, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Ellen Chorley, Northern Light Theatre, Trevor Schmidt
The Cardiac Shadow: where the soul goes under extreme duress. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the theatre, the dim light glints off the barbed wire that separates us from the stage. At the back we can just make out a kind of altar, draped in bulbs. It turns out to … Continue reading
The Cardiac Shadow, a multi-disciplinary exploration of human resilience at Northern Light
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “We were the thermometers of these men. The mercury was in our veins, rising and falling with every heartbeat. Our bodies measured the temperature of death.” The Cardiac Shadow, Clay McLeod Chapman In the play the … Continue reading
A great leap forward, by excavating the past: Origin of the Species opens the NLT season. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Archaeology, says an elderly member of that profession in Origin of the Species, is “simply knowing where to look.” It would seem to have that at least in common with theatre, judging by the mysterious discoveries … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bryony Lavery, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Studio Theatre, Trevor Schmidt
No one’s staying home this weekend: why would you? A wealth of choices on E-town stages
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the U of A’s Studio Theatre, it’s back in the USSR with Lenin’s Embalmers, Vern Thiessen’s black and absurdist 2008 tragicomedy (imagined from a true story) about two competing Jewish biochemists landing the unenviable joint … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Ainsley Hillyard, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Good Women Dance Collective, L'UniThéâtre, Northern Light Theatre, Roxy Performance Series, Studio Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, U of A drama department, Vern Thiessen, Walterdale Theatre
The dystopian vision of Trevor Schmidt: a new season at Northern Light Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Frankly, I’ve always been more interested in women’s stories than men’s,” says Trevor Schmidt, his dander up on a break last week from rehearsals for Origin of the Species. The highly unusual feminist two-hander comedy by … Continue reading
Gertrude and Alice go sitcom, at the Grindstone
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Gertrude and Alice: They’re the famously eccentric American couple who held court as paid-up members of the glittering Parisian avant-garde of the ‘20s. And now, once a month, you’ll find Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, … Continue reading
