Tag Archives: Trunk Theatre

‘Tell me more about myself.’ It’s the future already, and AI is editing the past for us: Marjorie Prime at the Varscona, a review

Posted on April 13, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I’ll be right here, Marjorie. Whenever you need me. I have all the time in the world,” says a man named Walter sympathetically to the 85-year old woman (Maureen Rooney) in the comfy chair. That’s the … Continue reading →

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‘Come for the AI, stay for the human drama’: Trunk Theatre brings Marjorie Prime to the Varscona

Posted on April 10, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Amy DeFelice didn’t know this. When you phone her cell, as I did this week, a glossy automated voice intervenes, to ask you to state your name and the reason for your call. “And I’ll see … Continue reading →

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Rat-free? No way. Fingers and Shrimp are back in a Rat Academy double-feature: a big week of openings in E-town

Posted on April 8, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a self-proclaimed rat-free province they’re scrappy outliers, up against it in a hostile world. But the rat underground persists (call it a rodent infestation but only if you’re classist). In an unusual cross-town double-feature Batrabbit … Continue reading →

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On the intricate loop of time: The Approach, a Fringe review

Posted on August 23, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

The Approach (Stage 8, Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This unsettling, mysteriously intricate play by the Irish playwright/screenwriter Mark O’Rowe, is brought to the Fringe by Trunk Theatre, an Edmonton indie with an archive full of … Continue reading →

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A hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy: what to see at The Answer Is Fringe

Posted on August 14, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Starting Thursday you can take ownership of The Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Yes, in an amazing summer telescoping of time, the Fringe is back in Old Strathcona, with the 42nd annual edition … Continue reading →

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Sunday in the park with Greeks: Euripides’ Helen from Trunk Theatre, a review

Posted on May 29, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Sometimes you just have to marvel at the adventurous chutzpah of Edmonton indie theatre. You just don’t expect to find yourself in a park on a sunny Sunday afternoon sitting in a lawn chair watching a … Continue reading →

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Ciara: can high culture save you when the chips are down? A Fringe review.

Posted on August 23, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Ciara (Stage 28, The Playhouse) Ciara’s favourite painting, she tells us at the outset, is of a giant woman, asleep on her side atop the cityscape of Glasgow. What will happen when she wakes up? That’s … Continue reading →

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