Tag Archives: Workshop West Playwrights Theatre

2021: the year Edmonton theatre returned to live (part one)

Posted on December 17, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In theatre, 2021 is a year that isn’t ending as it began. It was more than half over when The Pivot pivoted. Live performance gradually, cautiously ventured out of its online exile, where it had creatively … Continue reading →

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The (88) keys to the kingdom: Darrin Hagen’s solo show Metronome. A review

Posted on November 14, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In his new solo play Metronome, Darrin Hagen sits at a table under a giant arc, a rainbow of piano fragments, strings, unstrung sounding plates, keyboards. At one end, attached to the ground like the mythical … Continue reading →

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‘That piano arrived in my life for a reason’: Metronome, a new Darrin Hagen solo show premieres at Workshop West

Posted on November 5, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Have you ever tried something new, and instantly thought ‘O! I feel like I’ve been doing this my whole life?’” That’s how Darrin Hagen remembers the exact day when everything changed for the small-town Alberta trailer … Continue reading →

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Workshop West: the playwrights’ theatre is back, live, with a new season

Posted on October 8, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre turns 43 this season with a live, all-Canadian lineup, dubbed “Daring Greatly,” that includes two premieres by Edmonton playwrights, the return after a decade to a signature WWPT new play development festival, … Continue reading →

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Rocko and Nakota: star storyteller Josh Languedoc is back for National Indigenous Peoples Day

Posted on June 20, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It sits differently in my body, in my voice,” says Josh Languedoc, musing on his widely travelled solo show Rocko and Nakota: Tales From The Land. “Something has shifted this time around.” It’s been that kind … Continue reading →

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The play that haunts Darrin Hagen: the debut edition of Theatre Network’s new online book club (for plays)

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In February of 1983, a kid from Rocky Mountain House, newly arrived in town, went with a pal to the theatre. The play Darrin Hagen saw that winter night would linger in his mind over the … Continue reading →

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Looking forward to 2021 in Edmonton theatre

Posted on January 5, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca I know what you’re thinking.… The world has been so chaotic and unpredictable this past year that you’d have to be crazy to ink in a calendar of upcoming theatre events.      But one thing … Continue reading →

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2020: the strange year in Edmonton theatre (what just happened here? part 2)

Posted on December 22, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2020 was the year that a beaming singer arrived on the Varscona stage, draped herself in a chair centrestage to deliver a torchy number. And the host (Andrew MacDonald-Smith) calmly strode over and threw a sheet … Continue reading →

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2020: a year like no other in Edmonton theatre (part 1)

Posted on December 21, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2020: the year the laws of probability bent so far out of shape they snapped. Along with satire, futurist dystopian fantasies ceded pride of place to … reality. Every definition of live theatre was up against … Continue reading →

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The experimental spirit lives on in Edmonton theatre, live and in unusual hybrids

Posted on October 29, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Calling the pandemic an “obstacle” to live theatre, or maybe a “challenge,” is a bit like saying COVID is the flu. The pandemic has had a devastating effect on an art whose raison d’être is the … Continue reading →

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