Written by Vic Hyde
Directed by Michelle Spanik
Produced by Michael Hannigan
Annual Children’s Show – A lighthearted take on a children’s classic tale.
Production Dates: November 22-24, 28-30 2013
Tag Archives: comedy
Old Love
A comedy by Norm Foster
A rollicking comedy about romance and getting older
Meet Bud, a hardworking salesman who encounters his boss’s wife, Molly, at a company party and he’s hopelessly smitten. Molly? Not so much. And she’s not for trifling, with her droll, dry wit. You are in for a romp that takes you through three decades in the lives of our two romantics, all in the matter of a couple of fall-about laughing hours. Forget the boy-meets-girl stuff. Bud and Molly are old enough to know better and they do – almost.
Production Dates: September 20-21, 26-28 October 3-5 2013
Wrong for each other
A comedy by Norm Foster
Directed by Tom Mackan
Produced by Peter Malysewich
Widely praised, this terrific play comes with all of life’s reality enough to keep audiences totally involved, laughing and deeply moved at the same time. When Foster gets his genius working on a relationship between a man and woman, the exploration grabs us and keeps us fully engaged. Rudy and Norah meet quite accidentally after over three years of divorce and they set off on a memory trip of discovery that is classic in its telling. This is a near masterpiece of writing with dialogue astounding in its understanding of people and how they cope. And don’t forget, ever so funny and moving for all that.
“Positively sparkles with wit and entertainment from start to finish.”
– North Shore Times, Australia
“Foster’s deceptively simple comedy echoes with a haunting resonance long after the laughter has faded away.”
– Montreal Suburban
Production Dates: September 21-22, 27-29 October 4-6 2012
Midnight Madness
A comedy by Dave Carley
Directed by Al French
Produced by Sondra Learn
A romantic comedy, the kinder, gentler cousin of the mainstream stuff. Here’s a comedy to warm your laugh centre, the way a glass of good wine lifts your mood. It’s just minutes before midnight at Bloom’s Furniture sale. The salesman Wesley is closing the store for last time. When Anna Bregner arrives she has no idea that the lonely salesman is a former classmate. But Wesley remembers her all too well – he has kept tabs on all his former classmates. Anna has returned to this town to start a new career, which coincides with the end of Wesley’s.
Production Dates: April 13-14, 19-21, 26-28 2012
The Imaginary Invalid
A comedy by Moliere, adapted by Miles Malleson
Directed by Tom Mackan
Produced by Michelle Spanik
Uproarious farce!
Moliere took the starch out of all the foolish phonies of his day and here he hits the medical quacks, their sidekicks and the fake invalids they prey upon. An adaptation in the best tradition of the British farce, every character aims to use poor Argan and his imaginary illnesses for their own benefit. He’s the master of his household, he thinks. But not to his perky and saucy servant Toinette, however, who delights in her impertinence. His daughter Angelique is hopelessly in love with the handsome Cleante but Argan has a greater plan for her, to marry her to his doctor’s son and gain a doctor from the deal. But resourceful Toinette inserts herself into a plot to foil her master. Everybody conspires to take advantage of him. But he has schemes of his own and the comedy becomes side-splitting. The laughs pile up until the incredible finale when the imaginary invalid gets the reward he deserves!
February 3-5*, 10-12*, 16-18 2012
*matinee 2:00 pm
You Can’t Dance to Mozart
A comedy by John F. Green
Directed by Sondra Learn
Produced by Chuck Learn
What’s funny about “retired” and “pensioner”?
You’ll find out to your delight when you see this production by Oshawa writer, John F. Green. When the landlord raises the rent on pensioner Barney Walden’s apartment one time too many, Barney takes matters into his own hands – he stops paying the rent. Threatened with eviction he recruits his new love Kate, a retired school teacher from upstairs into an elaborate real estate scheme designed to bring the landlord to his knees. As the situation becomes more and more hilarious, and buddies Max and Boris become involved, and so too does Kate’s estranged daughter, Susan, and the scheme backfires, the chaos that follows will have you rolling in the aisles.
“Highest grossing play in seven years”, reports Class Act Dinner Theatre in Whitby.
From The Grand Prairie Alberta Encore, “..delivers laughs and current-events realism!”
Production Dates: September 16-17, 22-24, 29-30 October 1 2011
Chapter Two
By Neil Simon
Directed by Tom Mackan
Produced by Jan & John Durbin
When Neil Simon writes about a guy trying to help another guy solve a romantic crisis we’re sure to be in for a couple of hours of huge laughs. Simon knows his marital and romantic roadmaps and never misses the right twist or turn to keep us completely involved and always en route to hilarity. This play is one of his best.
George, a recent widower and a writer, can’t get out of his depression. Bring on his younger brother Leo with plans to get him dating again. Predictably there is a series of bad matches and the fun begins. But Leo comes up with Jennie who looks like a keeper, and this pair of not so young lovers set out on a bumpy road to happiness-ever-after, but not without the comedy that Simon can so dependably provide. Laugh after laugh will keep us rolling along. Add a neurotic friend of Jenny to mix it up with Leo and the merriment is irrepressible.
“A sure smash!”
– Variety
“Lovely, whimsical, and touching and always funny .. most of the time downright hilarious.”
– New York Post
Production Dates: February 4-5, 10-13*, 17-19 2011
*matinee 2:00 pm
Beauty and the Beast
A brand new adaptation by Vic Hyde
Directed by Cece Cunningham
Produced by Othello Inniss
Annual Children’s Show – It’s the classic story come to life!
Production Dates: November 26-28, December 2-4 2010
Caught in the Net
A comedy by Ray Cooney
Directed by Brian Morton
Produced by Sondra Learn
A bigamist taxi driver John Smith keeps his two families in different parts of London, both happy and blissfully unaware of each other. However, his teenage children, a girl from one family and a boy from the other, have met on the Internet and are anxious to meet in person since they have so much in common; name, surname and taxi driving dad! Keeping them apart plunges John into a hell hole of his own making. His lodger Stanley could be a saviour, but he is about to go on holiday with his decrepit old father who turns up thinking he is already at the guest house. The situation spirals out of control as John juggles outrageously with the truth.
“Brilliant … The funniest play of the year.”
– Daily Mail
“A sheer joy from beginning to end.”
– Daily Telegraph
Production Dates: April 16-17, 22-24, 29-30 May 1 2010
Sleeping Beauty
By Vic Hyde and Peggy Coslett
Directed by Scott Bloxom
Produced by Sondra Learn and Ken Holden
Annual Children’s Show – The timeless tale of a beautiful princess, a good fairy, a bad fairy and a handsome prince. Will the prince be able to rescue the sleeping princess? Will there be a happy ending? Come see the show to find out!
Production Dates: November 27-29, December 3-5 2009