Tag Archives: Wild Side Productions

The season in Edmonton theatre, part 1

Posted on June 19, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2022-2023. It’s been a complicated season on Edmonton stages. That Destination Fringe last summer sold 95,000 tickets to shows was a tip-off that live theatre was gradually getting its mojo back. And in the fall, post-Fringe … Continue reading →

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‘I sing my sorrow and I paint my joy’. Joni Mitchell: Songs of a Prairie Girl at Theatre Network, a review

Posted on March 12, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I’m not a weeper, I’m a snarler,” Joni Mitchell in old age tells us in the “theatrical collage” in her honour at Theatre Network. “I put the weeping in the songs…. I sing my sorrow, and … Continue reading →

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Joni Mitchell: Songs of a Prairie Girl, a ‘theatrical collage’ of a legendary artist, at Theatre Network

Posted on March 4, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “We’re captive on the carousel of time/ We can’t return, we can only look/ Behind,  from where we came….” The Circle Game, Joni Mitchell, 1966 The show that opens Thursday on the Theatre Network mainstage is … Continue reading →

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2022: the year in Edmonton theatre, part 1

Posted on December 17, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2022: it was a year in theatre that started with a calendar dotted with  hopeful pencilled-in dates.  After a complicated 2021 of cancellations and postponements (and a late-summer re-Pivot of The Pivot), audiences were, cautiously, ready … Continue reading →

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Facing the fall-out: A Doll’s House Part 2 launches the season at the Varscona. A review

Posted on September 9, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The stage is dominated by a door, a giant door. The room has the outlines of wainscoting and six sealed windows — all bleached out, painted over, uninhabited. There’s no human clutter: a couple of chairs, … Continue reading →

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Knock knock who’s there? Nora’s back, A Doll’s House Part 2

Posted on September 6, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “And it’s crucial there be a door. A very prominent door to the outside….” playwright stage directions, A Doll’s House Part 2 by Lucas Hnath It’s the door that Nora Helmer slammed as she walks out … Continue reading →

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It’s time to play: a peek at the new Edmonton theatre season

Posted on September 2, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Destination Fringe, with its 95,000 or so tickets sold, was a hint (we deal in big hints here in #yeg. People know what they’ve been missing; they want live in-person theatre experience and the sharing that … Continue reading →

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Sandy Moser: mask-maker to the stars

Posted on May 16, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Live theatre gave Sandy Moser the big-M Moment that turned everything around for her. And she’s returning the favour, though she’d never put it that way in a million years. “What would I be doing otherwise?” … Continue reading →

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The Children: a mystery, and a subtle Wild Side production. A review

Posted on March 13, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If there ever was a play that domesticates a big issue, to find a more expansively human one, The Children is it. By the hot young Brit playwright Lucy Kirkwood, the fascinating  2015 “eco-thriller” that Wild … Continue reading →

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Wild Side Productions brings a hot-button ‘eco-thriller’ to the Roxy: The Children

Posted on March 12, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The wild side (to borrow the name of the indie theatre company) is where the questions live. The answers are conditional, elusive, to be discussed.  “I’m drawn to plays that ask more questions than give answers,” … Continue reading →

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