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A grown-up homecoming in a moving musical: Fun Home, a review
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
Alison at three ages, and the actors who play her in groundbreaking Fun Home
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Everything about the clever, heart-wrenching musical that opens Friday at the Varscona stands off the beaten track in the musical theatre-land. And it’s produced by a little company that specializes in off the beaten track musicals, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Jeanine Tesori, Lisa Kron, Plain Jane Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Varscona Theatre
Lungfuls of anxiety: Lungs at Shadow Theatre. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Times being what they are, are you still “good people” if you decide to become parents? To bring another being into a world that’s already over-crammed with beings? A kid leaves a carbon footprint that’s bigger … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmonton theatre, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
On the road again: Mesa is a trip across the border, and the generations
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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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Atlas Theatre Collective, Doug Curtis, Edmonton theatre, Varscona Theatre, Varscona Theatre Ensemble
Miss Teen premieres at Shadow Theatre: game actors, tired script. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Miss Teen a strapped, single mother enters her awkward, bookish daughter in a local teen pageant. “It’ll be good practice … for life,” argues Coco brightly, undeterred by Margaret’s reaction, a mixture of appalled and … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, beauty pageants, Canadian sitcoms, Edmonton theatre, Michele Riml, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
Merry Merry quite contrary: the Christmas spirit up against resistance, 4 festive shows on E-town stages this week
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Merry Merry quite contrary. Some are born with the festive spirit; some achieve it, and some have it thrust upon ’em. And sometimes, as you know, seasonal high spirits have to be released (or wrestled down) … Continue reading
“Ripe for a lapse”: Fallen Angels is a Bright Young Things lark. A review.
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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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bright Young Things, Edmonton theatre, Fallen Angels, Noel Coward, Varscona Theatre, Varscona Theatre Ensemble
Happy hour from Bright Young Things: meet the stars of Fallen Angels
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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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bright Young Things, Edmonton theatre, Fallen Angels, Noel Coward, Varscona Theatre, Varscona Theatre Ensemble
Enter smiling, glass in hand: the Varscona Theatre Ensemble season begins with Fallen Angels
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
Song-and-dance con men, two World War I plays, and more… a theatre weekend in E-town
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A con game (with song and dance) is one of your options for a night out at live theatre this weekend. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, a larky musical by the team of David Yazbek (The Band’s Visit, … Continue reading
