Tag Archives: Tracy Carroll

Dreaming of home: Matara takes us to the zoo and a lone elephant, at Workshop West. A review.

Posted on December 2, 2018 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “This is her home. And we are her family.”  That’s Karen the zookeeper (Elinor Holt) taking on protesters and talking about her charge, who’s big, exotic, fascinating — and languishing a world away from her ‘country … Continue reading →

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Surveillance and the modern corp: Contractions, a Fringe review

Posted on August 22, 2018 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Contractions (Stage 13, Old Strathcona Public Library) What makes this chilling tightly-wound little Brit two-hander so horrifying is its smooth plausibility. At every step of the way, it sounds exactly like like the kind of corporate … Continue reading →

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“I need you like water”: relationships in a time of oil in Last Chance Leduc

Posted on May 16, 2018 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The fulcrum of Katherine Koller’s Last Chance Leduc — the third in her Alberta Landworks Trilogy about human relationships destabilized by seismic shifts in industry — is the moment of Alberta’s gold rush. I refer, of … Continue reading →

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Katherine Koller’s Last Chance Leduc: marriage on the brink of the boom

Posted on May 10, 2018 by

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The play that opens tonight at the Backstage Theatre is poised at the moment of a dramatic shift — in thinking, in focus, in perspective. In Alberta in 1947, big oil was discovered near Leduc. One … Continue reading →

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