Tag Archives: Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes

The season on Edmonton stages, highlights part 2

Posted on July 3, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Remembering the 2024-2025 theatre season — in its performances, its design inspirations, its risky experiments, its moments of magic (and/or crazy live-ness) — and its saddest, most irreplaceable losses. Start with those. The passing of wonderful … Continue reading →

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2024: the year in Edmonton theatre, part 1

Posted on December 20, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a chaotic, incoherent year in the world, live theatre, which has itself been under every kind of duress in 2024, stepped up to offer us other perspectives, other visions, characters on personal quests for meaning, … Continue reading →

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Embrace your inner elf and get festive, at a holiday show this weekend

Posted on December 13, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca I know, you’re holding out on the festive. And you don’t want to peak too soon. But pick that holly out of your clenched teeth, release your inner elf, succumb to the seasonal jollity, and find … Continue reading →

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There’s magic in those high-strung puppets: Little Dickens, the Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes at Theatre Network, a review

Posted on December 6, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca As Bah Humbug!s encircle the globe at this time of year, know this: There is nothing in the world like Ronnie Burkett’s riotous adults-only Little Dickens, in which the high-strung marionette artistes of the Daisy Theatre, … Continue reading →

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Little Dickens: Ronnie Burkett’s marionettes return to Theatre Network to upend a Christmas classic

Posted on December 1, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It’s the old puppeteer joke,” says Ronnie Burkett who has a lifetime supply of same. “Build a holiday show, and you know what you’re doing every December.” Which brings us to Little Dickens, opening Thursday at … Continue reading →

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Theatre Network at 50: an anniversary season and a story of Canadian theatre

Posted on September 16, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When a pair of horror clowns named Mump and Smoot take to the Roxy mainstage Oct. 8 for the first time in a decade, those interplanetary existentialists from Ummo will be launching Theatre Network’s 50th anniversary … Continue reading →

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Onstage in Edmonton this weekend, choices! A survey

Posted on April 19, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Your biggest problem this weekend in this theatre town is … choice. That, and the moment of truth for procrastinators. And the possibilities are high-contrast, to put it mildly, from companies of every size, aesthetic, and … Continue reading →

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The gift of belief: unmissable Wonderful Joe, The Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes at Theatre Network

Posted on April 5, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Something wonderful, and wonder-filled, happened last night at Theatre Network. We found ourselves on Eileen Street, in a miniature urban neighbourhood on the wrong side of the tracks. Where the homeless are home, and the misfits … Continue reading →

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An old man and his dog, a tale for a broken world: Ronnie Burkett’s Wonderful Joe premieres at Theatre Network

Posted on April 2, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The old man we meet in Wonderful Joe, the new Ronnie Burnett Theatre of Marionettes play getting its much anticipated world premiere Thursday at Theatre Network, has a magical gift (and a dog). Call it vision. … Continue reading →

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Play time! Prospects to intrigue you in the new season on Edmonton stages

Posted on September 5, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Answer Is Fringe, the 42nd annual edition of our giant summer theatre bash, with its 114,000 or so tickets sold, was a sign. Theatre is getting its groove back, after three hard years that have … Continue reading →

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