Tag Archives: Teatro La Quindicina

Hey, the theatre season has landed: a weekend on E-town stages

Posted on October 4, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You may have noticed: the stars have aligned; the E-town theatre season is underway. This week there are musicals, plays, an original screwball comedy. There’s a staged reading of a play that’ll open on a stage … Continue reading →

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Capturing the screwball effect: Vidalia, the larky Teatro season finale. A review

Posted on October 3, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If you’ve ever had the feeling that chaos was a mere blink away — and really, who hasn’t? — the screwball comedy is your go-to form. The unnerving sense that the fabric of modern life could … Continue reading →

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Vidalia and “briefcase syndrome”: Teatro ends the season with a larky Lemoine screwball.

Posted on September 25, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca I feel pretty confident in declaring that Vidalia, the screwball comedy that opens Friday at the Varscona (the finale to the Teatro La Quindicina summer season), is the only example in the world-wide screwball repertoire to … Continue reading →

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There’s more. Update on the Fringe holdovers: the Grindstone is in

Posted on August 28, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The “shoulda,” and the “meant to…” regrets that always accompany the end of the Fringe are getting some get some relief this week. As already announced, some of the Fringe’s hottest shows are getting held over … Continue reading →

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The Wild Things aren’t done with you yet: Fringe holdovers next week in three locations

Posted on August 23, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Wild Things haven’t finished with you yet, my theatre-hungry friends. The 38th annual edition of our summer theatre bash might end Sunday night. But you get a reprieve on some of the Fringe hits you … Continue reading →

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Paying the price for crime: A Momentary Lapse, a Teatro comedy. A Fringe review

Posted on August 22, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A Momentary Lapse (Stage 12, Varscona Theatre) Enter, shackled together. In one way A Momentary Lapse is part of the canon of plays that trap deliberately mismatched characters together to see what rapprochement is possible (nun … Continue reading →

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Where the wild things fringe: what to see at the monster bash

Posted on August 10, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Amazing but true: starting Thursday the Fringe, Edmonton’s favourite summer festival, is back — back in the theatre town where the continent’s fringe phenom began (and “fringe” was reinvented as a verb). Where The Wild Things … Continue reading →

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The Bad Seed returns to chill at Teatro La Quindicina. A review.

Posted on July 13, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca That angelic smile. That impeccable posture. Those unassailably perfect braids.… “Too good to be true,” someone says admiringly of eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark near the start of The Bad Seed. It’s meant to be the ultimate compliment. … Continue reading →

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The Bad Seed at Teatro: the “perfect little girl” and her mom. Meet the stars

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “She’s perfect perfect perfect,” grins Lilla Sólymos, cheerfully assessing the lethally goal-oriented little girl she plays in the 1954 thriller that returns to the Teatro La Quindicina repertoire Friday after 30 years. “And she uses that.” … Continue reading →

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Strangers till they’re not: one last chance to see A Likely Story at Teatro

Posted on June 22, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “You are a stranger though,” says a character, musing on whether to lay out her life conundrum to someone she’s just met in an unspecified place that turns out to be … a train station. “Ah, … Continue reading →

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