Tag Archives: Teatro La Quindicina

What I learned at this year’s Fringe: thoughts of a Fringed brain

Posted on August 21, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I want to go to the beautiful place and enjoy the view and then come back. I think we all do.” — Leo in Stewart Lemoine’s The Margin of the Sky  You can’t go off to … Continue reading →

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Madcap and moving: The Margin of the Sky from Teatro, a Fringe review

Posted on August 15, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

The Margin of the Sky (Stage 11, Varscona Theatre) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s somehow fitting that this 2003 Stewart Lemoine comedy about the mystery of inspiration and creation is revived by Teatro La Quindicina as the finale of their … Continue reading →

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‘A post-pandemic brain scrubber’: what to see at Destination Fringe

Posted on August 6, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Your Destination is on the right (also on the left and straight ahead). And this late-pandemic world seems … possible and ready to be lively. Yes, the Fringe is back, starting Thursday, in the town where … Continue reading →

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Spirits rise: revisiting the Edmonton theatre season, part two

Posted on July 13, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Fever Land, according to that heartbreaking/ riotous comedy by which Teatro La Quindicina returned to live performance last fall, is the kingdom where your spirits rise, vivacity accelerates, and the gray clammy feeling of routine is … Continue reading →

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Celebrating the Edmonton theatre season that returned to live, part one

Posted on July 12, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It began in some trepidation, cautiously, experimentally, with complicated logistics, under constant threat of delays and cancellations. But this was the season that live theatre actually returned to live and in-person. Yes, the pivot pivoted. We … Continue reading →

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The dismantling of decorum: A Grand Time in the Rapids, an ingenious Teatro farce

Posted on July 9, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A newcomer — a properly composed English lady, in high heels and a frock — explains at the outset of A Grand Time in the Rapids that she’s crossed the Atlantic and come to Grand Rapids, … Continue reading →

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Get down and festive, at an Edmonton festival this week

Posted on July 4, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a festive week in Edmonton live entertainment. The moment, both historically and seasonally, is at hand for you to venture forth and join in. It’s a choose-your-festival week; sample widely: the Found Festival, the New … Continue reading →

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Doors will slam, towels will drop: Farren Timoteo goes farcical in A Grand Time in the Rapids at Teatro La Quindicina

Posted on July 3, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I love watching actors work hard,” says Farren Timoteo. “It’s one of my favourite things about theatre. I love it when you see them changing too much, running around too much, negotiating crazy entrances and exits … Continue reading →

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A comedy thriller with a Wagnerian reverb: Evelyn Strange at Teatro, a review

Posted on May 28, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A beautiful amnesiac in a trench coat finds herself in a grand tier box at the Met c. 1955, sitting through a performance of Wagner’s five-hour Siegfried. She needs time to think and, hey, The Ring … Continue reading →

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The strange cycles of theatre: Shannon Blanchet returns to Teatro to direct the vintage comedy thriller Evelyn Strange

Posted on May 25, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Every once in a while the world of live theatre pulls off one of those satisfying but fanciful multi-strand time loops that wouldn’t be out of place in a play. Opera is involved; so is comedy. … Continue reading →

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