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Small Mouth Sounds: the human comedy gets the silent treatment at the Roxy. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There aren’t many words in it, but Small Mouth Sounds isn’t what you’d call quiet. The silent treatment is loud in the ingenious, funny, and mysteriously affecting play that the indie company Wild Side has brought … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bess Wohl, Edmonton theatre, Roxy Performance Series, Theatre Network, Wild Side Productions
Minerva – Queen of the Handcuffs: the fascination of escape, an unlikely radical. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The international stage repertoire has no shortage of shows about the entertainment world and its fractious backstage — where dreamers and achievers, stars and wannabes, artsy bright-idea types and antsy bottom-line producers, collide. Still, Minerva – … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, escape acts, Ghostwriter Theatre, Houdini, magic acts, Roxy Performance Series, Theatre Network
Minerva, Queen of the Handcuffs: a woman trapped in a man’s world
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “In life you feel you’re trapped in a situation and there’s no out, no gap, no light. Everyone can relate to that feeling of being stuck, in some way…. There’s a real-ness to that.” — Miranda … Continue reading
The double-optic on Christmas: meet the real-life couple starring in Oh! Christmas Tree
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If Lora Brovold and Collin Doyle, the real-life couple who star in Oh! Christmas Tree, have a special rapport with the characters in Conni Massing’s new comedy (opening Thursday at Theatre Network), it’s not surprising. They’ve … Continue reading
To tree or not to tree, that is the question: Conni Massing’s new comedy Oh! Christmas Tree at the Roxy
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Oh! Christmas Tree, the new Conni Massing romantic comedy that opens Thursday at Theatre Network, a relationship is under extreme pressure. Is it money? Snoring? Musical tastes? Lunatic relativies? Whether to acquire a shitsu? No, … Continue reading
A mission to defeat time: Jezebel, At The Still Point. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It beings with an explosion somewhere in the galaxy, a crash landing, smoke, red emergency lights, a siren. Matt Schuurman’s video design, spread across jagged meteor fragments amid showers of light (by Elise Jason) is, quite … Continue reading
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
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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
Exploring space and time, with a dog: Jezebel, At The Still Point
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca On a break from rehearsal this past week, the cast of Jezebel, At the Still Point are hanging out in the Theatre Network green room. One of them — the one with the speaking role — … Continue reading
Pinocchio: a new production of an Alberta Opera original opens the Roxy Performance Series
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Seven years ago, a musical-writing duo with a string of sassy re-angled fairy-tale musicals for kids to their credit got their mitts on a different sort of adventure. It was free-wheeling and fantastical, crazily episodic — … Continue reading
