Tag Archives: Varscona Theatre Ensemble

10 years with the Janes: Plain Jane Theatre celebrates with a new revue, Get Happy!

Posted on February 17, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Happiness. So how’s that going for you? Is the state of happiness a democratic republic? Is happiness something to be approached gradually, on tiptoe? Something to be pursued vigorously and wrestled to the ground? Or chosen? … Continue reading →

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Strange, playful, and of this moment: The Skin Of Our Teeth from Bright Young Things. A review.

Posted on November 24, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s strange, it’s playful. And it gets right to the heart of the dark, chaotic, freak-out of the present moment.  That’s The Skin Of Our Teeth, the high-spirited, anarchic, category-resistant 1942 “comedy” (for want of a … Continue reading →

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“Have you milked the mammoth?” Thornton Wilder’s The Skin Of Our Teeth, the wildest play of the season. A preview

Posted on November 22, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The weirdest, wildest play of the season — let’s be bold and call it in advance — is opening tonight on the Varscona stage. It’s not new, though it feels like it might be. The Skin … Continue reading →

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It’s show time in Edmonton theatre: what to not miss this season on E-town stages

Posted on September 12, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “That was what had been missing from his life all these years. His career, his city, this bonehead province. Mythic Power.” — The Garneau Block. In Todd Babiak’s wry and funny novel The Garneau Block, reborn … Continue reading →

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A grown-up homecoming in a moving musical: Fun Home, a review

Posted on April 13, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca We are all haunted, every one of us. By the great mysteries of our past: our families. By the questions we live with that never got answered. By the tiny moments that slipped by at the … Continue reading →

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The road to Mesa: a buddy pic with a difference. A review.

Posted on February 22, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Funny how the concept “road trip” conjures two sets of images, almost entirely contradictory. One is fuelled by sheer romance, the cinematic sweep of conquering vastness in a first-hand way: the questing spirit with car keys, … Continue reading →

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On the road again: Mesa is a trip across the border, and the generations

Posted on February 20, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You know what they say (it’s probably somewhere in the extra-fine print on the AMA website, just kidding): You never really know someone till you travel together. The buddy pic/ road trip through America that opens … Continue reading →

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“Ripe for a lapse”: Fallen Angels is a Bright Young Things lark. A review.

Posted on November 26, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The “nice part” of Julia is perfectly content with matrimonial “happiness and tranquillity.” There lurks, however, “a beastly, unworthy thing waiting to spring.” And, she adds darkly, “it hasn’t been fed for a long LONG time….” … Continue reading →

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Happy hour from Bright Young Things: meet the stars of Fallen Angels

Posted on November 22, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “My mind is a mass of corruption,” Noel Coward told the Evening Standard in 1925. “England’s solid-gold jazz baby,” as his biographer John Lahr described him, was responding to the selection of epithets dusted off by … Continue reading →

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Enter smiling, glass in hand: the Varscona Theatre Ensemble season begins with Fallen Angels

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the effervescent 1924 comedy that opens Thursday on the Varscona stage, you will see two married women, bored with contentment and longing for passion, restore the zing of excitement to their lives. They levitate into … Continue reading →

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