Tag Archives: Workshop West Playwrights Theatre

A season on Edmonton stages: a look back

Posted on June 12, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

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The art of Indigenous storytelling comes to life: meet Josh Languedoc

Posted on May 25, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I’ve always been a storyteller,” says the Saugeen First Nation playwright/ actor/ improviser/ director Josh Languedoc. “It’s just been there … in my bones.” He can thank his Indigenous heritage, and its great oral tradition for … Continue reading →

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The siren call of the wild: Beth Graham’s Pretty Goblins, a review

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Something happened to me today,” says Lizzie in Pretty Goblins. “Something happens to everyone every day,” says her twin sister Laura. There it is, in a nutshell: the hard, maybe irreducible, human mystery at the crux of … Continue reading →

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Sisterhood and addiction: Beth Graham’s Pretty Goblins premieres at Workshop West

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Morning and evening/ Maids heard the goblins cry: “Come buy our orchard fruits,/Come buy, come buy…. – Goblin Market Christina Rossetti’s 1859 fantasy Goblin Market, a piece of Victorian erotica which has got to be one of … Continue reading →

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Feel the breeze: Chinook blows through with cutting-edge live theatre

Posted on February 8, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Chinook: finally, the moment in the deep midwinter when “cutting edge” doesn’t refer to the wind chill factor.  Edmonton’s international multidisciplinary performance series blows through the winter theatre season again starting tonight. For this third annual … Continue reading →

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Reimagining our own lost history: John Ware Reimagined at Workshop West, a review

Posted on November 10, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca John Ware could do many things in life. He could ride horses too wild for any other man. He could wrestle any rampaging steer into submission, organize a cattle drive, run a ranch, walk through a … Continue reading →

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Don’t let preconceptions define you: meet the stars of John Ware Reimagined

Posted on November 8, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca On a cold morning last week before rehearsals started for the day, I met up with Jesse Lipscombe and Jameela McNeil, who play John Ware and his wife in the production of Cheryl Foggo’s John Ware … Continue reading →

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The making of a (black) cowboy legend: John Ware Reimagined at Workshop West

Posted on November 8, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca He was a high rider, a figure carved from the X-large dimensions of Western mythology. A late 19th century Alberta cowboy of extraordinary  skill and savvy, capable of startling feats of agility, daring, horsemanship. What young … Continue reading →

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Seasonal returns: High Tea and the Theatre 6-Pack

Posted on September 21, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Let no one argue that Firefly Theatre & Circus doesn’t take the high road. With the return of their annual High Tea Sunday, Firefly takes vertical integration literally, and tea-time to dizzy new heights. You can … Continue reading →

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The new theatre season begins: hey, Edmonton has play dates!

Posted on September 19, 2017 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “And the wall keeps out the enemy/ And we build the wall to keep us free….” —Hadestown In Hadestown, the Broadway-bound musical whose out-of-town opening happens at Edmonton’s largest playhouse the Citadel (Nov. 11 to Dec. … Continue reading →

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