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Sandy Moser: mask-maker to the stars
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
The Children: a mystery, and a subtle Wild Side production. A review
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
Posted in Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, eco-thriller, Edmonton indie theatre, Edmonton theatre, Lucy Kirkwood, Wild Side Productions
Wild Side Productions brings a hot-button ‘eco-thriller’ to the Roxy: The Children
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
Welcome back! Act II of the Edmonton theatre season is about to begin
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca I know what you’re thinking — post-festivity regret, punishing resolutions, the sense of finale. But cast off these thoughts: the theatre season isn’t ending. It’s only intermission. And intermission is over. Welcome back; Act II is … Continue reading
Posted in Features, News/Views
Tagged Alberta Aboriginal Arts, Broadway Across Canada, Catalyst Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Impossible Mongoose, Malachite Theatre, Mayfield Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Shadow Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Stonemarrow Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Todd Babiak, Wild Side Productions
Small Mouth Sounds: the human comedy gets the silent treatment at the Roxy. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There aren’t many words in it, but Small Mouth Sounds isn’t what you’d call quiet. The silent treatment is loud in the ingenious, funny, and mysteriously affecting play that the indie company Wild Side has brought … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bess Wohl, Edmonton theatre, Roxy Performance Series, Theatre Network, Wild Side Productions
Small Mouth Sounds and the silent scream: a unique challenge comes to the Roxy
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “When you see the ocean, you may not be able to return. To the well.” – Small Mouth Sounds The play that gets its Canadian premiere tonight in Theatre Network’s Roxy Performance Series is a theatrical … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bess Wohl, Canadian premieres, Edmonton theatre, silent retreats, Wild Side Productions
And so it begins, the new theatre season. Edmonton has play dates, and here’s a teaser!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “If you’re stuck in your story and want to get out … sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty….” Matilda. In Matilda, the joyously subversive musical spun from Roald Dahl’s novel, our activist eight-year-old … Continue reading
Posted in Features, News/Views, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Brian Webb Dance Company, Broadway Across Canada, Cardiac Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Hardline Theatre, L'UniThéâtre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre, Roxy Performance Series, Shadow Theatre, Studio Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Theatre Yes, Thou Art Here, Wild Side Productions, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
An all-Canadian trio of mainstage productions for season 44 at Theatre Network
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the centre of Theatre Network’s all-Canadian upcoming three-production mainstage season announced this week is a new play inspired by a remarkable life — and a life-changing moment in our collective history. In The Empress & … Continue reading
Posted in News/Views
Tagged 12thnight.ca, 2b theatre company, Alberta Opera, Blunt Entertainment, Bradley Moss, Bumble Bear Productions, Crow's Theatre, Damien Atkins, Darrin Hagen, Edmonton theatre, Ghost Writer Theatre, Good Women Dance, Hannah Moscovitch, Hey Ladies!, Nextfest, Patricia Zentilli, Theatre Network, Wild Side Productions
A season on Edmonton stages: a look back
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the opening scene of Jabberwocky, the latest from the Old Trout Puppet Workshop (at Theatre Network this past season), a drum roll announces the parting of a red velvet theatre curtain. Which opens to reveal … Continue reading
Posted in Features
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Atlas Theatre, Bright Young Things, Canadian Stage, Catalyst Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Actors Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Edmonton theatre season, Fort Edmonton Park, Kill Your Television Theatre, L'UniThéâtre, Lewis Carroll, Northern Light Theatre, Old Trout Puppet Workshop, Punctuate! Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, The Plain Jane Theatre, Theatre Network, Tiny Bear Jaws, Vancouver Arts Club Theatre, Wild Side Productions, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
Onstage: a weekend theatre update
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Your weekend could include a musical. There’s a couple to choose from, and though both are a challenge (for very different reasons) for the form, they’re at opposite ends of the musical spectrum •One of the … Continue reading
