The Merry Wives of Windsor Bard on the Beach, Vancouver Summer 2016 This hit production of Bard’s 2012 season returns in 2016, this time on the BMO Mainstage. Meet John Falstaff, a British ex-patriot who has landed in the Windsor, Ontario of 1968. He’s decided to seduce a few local housewives – after all, how…
The Rivals Blackbird Theatre December 2015 – January 2016 “My valour is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!” (Bob Acres prepares for his duel) This brilliant 18th-century comedy of manners follows the rollicking misadventures of Jack Absolute and Lydia Languish, a pair…
The (Post) Mistress Gordon Tootoosis Nīkānīwin Theatre, Saskatchewan November 21 – December 6, 2015 A one-woman musical by the inimitable Tomson Highway. In the small town of Lovely, Ontario, the (post)mistress has thne magical ability to divine the contents of the letters she sorts. What results is a hilarious, moving and life-affirming tale of the lives,…