Tag Archives: Quebec theatre

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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Do shebangs come in partials? Simone et le whole shebang opens the L’UniThéâtre season

Posted on October 22, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a certain heat-seeking rom-com engine driving Simone et le whole shebang, the raucous, tart-tongued season-opener at L’UniThéâtre, Edmonton’s francophone theatre. At the centre is an unexpected encounter between two hostile, elderly characters, who are up … Continue reading →

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All for love: thoughts on Les Feluettes, Edmonton Opera’s season opener

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Love and death, jealousy and revenge, crime and punishment, repression and liberation, visions of fiery hell and fantastical apparitions who float down into the New World from the Old … there is nothing tentative, nothing cautious … Continue reading →

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