Tag Archives: Varscona Theatre

“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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Song-and-dance con men, two World War I plays, and more… a theatre weekend in E-town

Posted on November 1, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

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I sing of Pretenderos, land of plot complications. The return of Die-Nasty to a lawless land

Posted on November 1, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Trolls? You want trolls? How about a dragon? “I’ll make it happen,” says a portentous rumbling voice from the dark. “This is a world with No Rules.” Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.  Welcome to … Continue reading →

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Theatre takes to the trenches: Neil Grahn’s The Comedy Company. A review

Posted on October 26, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “And make it funny!” barks the Major at the soldier.    And so it starts, the remarkable true Canadian story that comes to life in Neil Grahn’s The Comedy Company. The new play by a writer … Continue reading →

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Laughter in the face of death: Neil Grahn’s The Comedy Company launches the Shadow season

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Neil Grahn and comedy. He’s sidled, plunged, back-flipped into it. He’s written it and improvised it, acted it, produced it, directed it, studied it at a distance and up close, for stage for film for TV. … Continue reading →

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In the land of Pretenderos, a plot of epic proportions: Die-Nasty returns with a Lord of Thrones season

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Epic battles, dynastic conflicts and alliances, murderous intrigues, lethal challenges, fierce creatures (in striking character roles), aspirational heroes, ancient grievances, copious references to The Throne, a plot that no one person can fully understand…. Yes, smells … Continue reading →

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And in other theatre news: Tonight! Teatro’s season-end grand finale bash and Collin Doyle’s new play at Script Salon

Posted on October 14, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This is how the Teatro La Quindicina mind ticks: the last production of their 2018 season, Skirts On Fire, has just closed, ergo it’s the moment for a grand finale … of grand finales.  Bring Down … Continue reading →

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As fizzy as champagne: Skirts On Fire at Teatro La Quindicina, a review

Posted on September 29, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There is a crucial moment in screwball comedies when someone sensible, someone with a placid, routine, predictable existence, finds himself having another sort of life altogether — for no reason he can quite put a finger … Continue reading →

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