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Shadow Theatre focuses on local writers next season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Shadow Theatre will finish its current season — but not until the fall. The Wrong People Have Money, the Shadow season finale with the resonant title (I can see you nodding), was to have premiered at … Continue reading
Posted in News/Views, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Conni Massing, Darrin Hagen, Edmonton theatre, Reed McColm, Shadow Theatre, The Mountaintop, Varscona Theatre
When the curtain doesn’t open: strange nights without theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a strange feeling. I’ve spent most of my adult life encouraging people to go to live theatre. Exhorting people to share the excitement, the fun, the surprise, the laughter and the tears, the shared gasp, … Continue reading
Heisenberg: the Uncertainty Principle comes to theatre, at Shadow. Meet Amber Borotsik
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “If you watch something closely enough you realize you have no possible way of telling where it’s going or how fast it’s getting there. Did you know that?” — Heisenberg “It’s a slippery thing,” muses Amber … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, Shadow Theatre, Simon Stephens, Varscona Theatre
10 years with the Janes: Plain Jane Theatre celebrates with a new revue, Get Happy!
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
A brave new gender-less world? Happy Birthday Baby J, a new Nick Green comedy at Shadow Theatre. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I was saying my authenticity mantra,” declares a progressive bourgeois mommy at the start of Happy Birthday Baby J. Yes indeed, “authenticity” (and an assortment of other contemporary mantras) will be up for discussion, dissection, and … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Canadian comedy, Edmonton theatre, Nick Green, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
Don we now our gay apparel: With Bells On is back, in festive mode
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The glamorous lives of drag queens (to be cont’d….). It’s Sunday morning. And Darrin Hagen is in an unheated garage in Belgravia looking for a disco ball, the official Guys in Disguise disco ball. “We must … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Christmas shows, Darrin Hagen, Edmonton theatre, Guys in Disguise, Varscona Theatre
Strange, playful, and of this moment: The Skin Of Our Teeth from Bright Young Things. A review.
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
“Have you milked the mammoth?” Thornton Wilder’s The Skin Of Our Teeth, the wildest play of the season. A preview
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
What to see this weekend on E-town stages (don’t stay home)
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Time (a possible paradox). There’s never enough of it. It never stands still. It’s almost impossible to make a dent in it. You can move forward through it, but are you actually standing still? The show … Continue reading
