October Production
The Need for Brussels Sprouts by Murray Schisgal
Director Team: Linda Kalturnyk; Neil Bessette
An engaging, romantic and upbeat comedy about a lonely, down-on-his-heels actor who is visited by a female police officer who not only threatens to write him up for a noise citation, but to change his world forever. Will the door to male-female relationships close for good, or can love overcome and find hope…even in an unlikely vegetable? From the co-writer of the award winning film “Tootsie”, Murray Schisgal.
Comedy, 40 min. no intermission
Photographic Gallery
November Production
Letters of a Matchmaker by John B. Keane
Director Team: Aidan O’Brien; Sidney Gray
Poets they say are born and not made. The same cannot be said of Matchmakers. Only circumstances can make a Matchmaker. Follow this hilarious study of a lost art and the vagaries of human relations, as related by the story’s hero, Dicky Mick Dicky O’Connor.
Comedy, 1 hr. no intermission
January Production
The Shawl by David Mamet
Director: Brendan Carruthers
Following the triumphant success of Glengarry Glen Ross, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984, one of America’s foremost playwrights opened The Shawl to critical acclaim in April 1985. The action centres around a smalltime mystic out to bilk a bereaved woman of her inheritance. The play has been described as a beautifully crafted piece of work with a sharp, hurting edge…an exquisitely tooled chamber drama. Part of MTC’s MametFest 2008.
Drama, 1 hr, 15 Mins no intermission
March Production
Something in the Air by Richard Dresser
Director: Paul Gray
A contemporary film noir, Something in the Air takes place in a nameless city where a man Walker, has hit rock bottom. He finds himself in the office of Neville, a man he believes is a psychoanalyst who can help him. But Neville turns out to be a financial analyst and he offers Walker the one sure-fire investment left: buying the life insurance policy of a dying man. But of course, nothing is ever so simple, as Walker is about to learn.
Comedy, 2 hours with intermission
April Production
Dublin Carol by Conor McPherson
Director Team: Sidney Gray; Paul Gray
Canadian Premiere. Present day Dublin. Christmas Eve. Undertaker John Plunkett is sharing memories of funerals over the years and dispensing advice to his young assistant. But the arrival of his estranged grown-up daughter shows him the time has come to face up to his own disastrous past in order to create some kind of truce with his fear of the future.
Dramedy, 1 hour 45 minutes with intermission
