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The Glass Menagerie

A drama by Tennessee Williams

Directed by Vincenzo Guerriero
Produced by Theatre Burlington

In this semi-autobiographical play the domineering matriarch of the Wingfield family tries to find a “gentleman caller” for her fragile daughter.

Production Dates: September 17-18, 23-25, 30 October 1-2 2004

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Butterflies Are Free

A Comedy by Leonard Gershe

Directed by Al French
Produced by Clair Bonanno

A funny, sentimental, heart-warming play.

Set in the late 60’s, Butterflies Are Free is the story of Don, a young blind man on his own in the world for the first time. At last on his own, he wants to experience all that life has to offer. Life becomes exciting and wonderful when he meets his new neighbour Jill, a free spirited young woman. Life becomes complicated when his overprotective mother drops in for an unexpected visit.

Production Dates: April 23-24, 29-30, May 1, 6-8 2004

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Separate Tables

A Drama by Terence Rattigan

Directed by Tom Mackan
Produced by Chuck Learn

A sensitive drama of mismatched people, told with ironic humour and gentle persuasion. This play examines the lonely lives and follows the interplay between a group of characters staying at a seaside Inn in Bournemouth, England.

Production Dates: February 13-14, 19-22*, 26-28 2004

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The Drawer Boy

A drama by Michael Healey

Directed by Vince Guerriero
Produced by Michelle Spanik

A young actor from the city lives with two aging bachelor farmers to gather stories. Their lives are irrevocably altered when art attempts to imitate life and the line between truth and fiction is crossed.

Production Dates: January 31 February 1, 6-9*, 13-15 2003
*matinee 2:00 pm

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Me and My Friend

A comedy/drama by Gillian Plowman

Directed by Tom Mackan
Produced by Inez Hayes
Set Construction by Chuck Learn

In this story we observe the often poignant, sometimes hilarious struggles of four individuals as they try to adjust to life after periods of legal confinement in psychiatric institutions. They are housed by the social welfare system in two small Council flats in a modern English urban setting. They are encouraged to find jobs and make their way back into the civil and social structures that had earlier judged them mentally unfit by courts of law. Ms. Plowman has created four flawed and fragile human beings from the deep insight of her practice and experience. The play is a delicate social and human document.

Production Dates: February 2-3, 8-11*, 15-17 2001
* Matinee performance 2:00 PM

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Eleemosynary

By Lee Blessing

Directed by Liz Inman
Produced by Trevor Bonanno

El-ee-mosy-nary the winning word in a spelling contest,
daughter, mother and grandmother, Funny, perceptive and
eloquently written play about the lives of three women.

Production Dates: February 1,2,7,8,9,10*,14,15,16 2002
*matinee 2:00 p.m.

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The Winslow Boy

A drama by Terrence Rattigan

Directed by Tom Mackan
Produced by Michelle Spanik

It is 1912 in England. The government strains to introduce far-reaching social legislation to heavy opposition, women struggle for the basic right to vote, Ireland’s revolutionary fuse burns menacingly, the German war mongerers rattle their sabres, and Ronnie Winslow, just 14, a cadet at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, in 1912, is accused by his superiors of stealing a five shilling postal order and is sent home in disgrace. The Winslows are so ordinary a British family, you look up ordinary in the dictionary, there they are. But in the common ordinariness of their father, Arthur Winslow, burning like a pilot light, a sense of justice abides. Stirred, he begins a journey to see that wrong is righted, a journey that almost ruins his family and his health, and eventually leads him to face choices he never dreamt would arise.  Terence Rattigan bases his story on a real event of that period. He reconstitutes the tale but the essential facts remain: A government is brought almost to a standstill, a whole nation is transfixed, and the Crown itself is brought to trial. And all is told as a simple story of an ordinary family doing what ordinary families do in the face of dramatic conflicts… live their lives and trust that right will be done. This play, written in 1946,   is considered by many to be one of centuries finest achievements by an extraordinarily skilled writer.  Burlington Little Theatre is proud to be giving it its area premier.

Production Dates: Winter 2000 (specific show dates unknown)

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Brighton Beach Memoirs

A comedy/drama by Neil Simon

Directed by Ian MacPherson

Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to and admires. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual fantasy, and living the life of a poor boy in a crowded house.

Production dates – September 17-18, 23-25, 30 & October 1-2.  1999

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Twilight

Presented by BLT Workshop
Produced by:  Alana & John Newstead

An exploration of the darker side of humanity, through drama & comedy.

An evening of scenes, performed and presented by the 1998/99 workshop group.

Production Dates: June 4, 5 1999

Toronto, Mississippi

By Joan MacLeod

Directed by Ian MacPherson
Produced by Trevor Bonanno

Jhana, a mentally-handicapped teenager, lives with her mother and a cheerfully morose poet. Jhana’s estranged father – a professional Elvis impersonator – arrives unexpectedly.  What follows is an exploration of fragmented identities and fractured understandings.

Production Dates: February 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14*, 18, 19, 20 1999
* matinee @ 2:00 pm

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