Fall Show 2011

"It's Snowing on Saltspring"

by Nicola Cavendish

Presented by special permission of the author

directed by Dave Sayer

• December 7-10: 8.00p.m.
• December 11: 2:00 p.m, Matinee
• December 13-17: 8:00 p.m.
• December 18: 2.00 p.m. Matinee

It's Christmas Eve on Saltspring Island. The stockings aren't hung by the chimney with care and Bill Bannister hopes that St. Nick won't be there. Bill's worries centre on his wife Sarah, 9 1/2 months pregnant and counting; their dog Karma, recently denuded to make a baby blanket; and his recurring kleptomania. While Bill connives with local real estate agent Bernice Snarpley, Sarah is consoled over a bottle of bubbly by their wisecracking neighbours, Marti and Reverend Chris Kane.
Bill beds down in the living room to spend a lonely Christmas Eve when what to his wondering eye does appear? None other than Santa Claus himself! Whisked off to Casa Claus, location North Pole, in a miniature sleigh drawn by eight tiny reindeer, Bill meets Mrs. Claus, a pair of cheeky elves, a certain red-nosed reindeer, and rediscovers the hope, faith and spirit of Christmas.

Warning: Some adult humour.

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Winter Show 2012

"Italian American Reconciliation"

by John Patrick Shanley

Presented by special permission of Dramatists Play Service Inc.

directed by Bev Steeves

• February 22nd-25th: 8.00p.pm
• February 26th :2 pm, Matinee
• February 28th-March 3rd: 8:00 pm

Huey Maximilian Bonfigliano has a problem: While he is safely divorced from his shrewish first wife, Janice, who shot his dog and even took a bead on him, he feels he cannot regain his "manhood" until he woos and wins her one more time if only to put his broken marriage behind him once and for all. He enlists the aid of his lifelong buddy, Aldo Scalicki, a confirmed bachelor who tries, without apparent success, to convince Huey that he would be better off sticking with his new lady friend, Teresa, a usually placid young waitress whose indignation flares when she learns what Huey is up to. In a moonlit balcony scene (hilariously reminiscent of Cyrano de Bergerac) Aldo pleads his lovesick friend's case and, to his astonishment, Janice capitulates although not for long. However we do learn that her earlier abuse of Huey was intended to make him "act like a man" which, at last, he does. And, more than that, he (and the audience) become aware that, in the final essence, "the greatest and only success is to be able to love" a truth which emerges delightfully from the heartwarming, wonderfully antic and always imaginatively conceived action of the play.

Warning: Adult situations and dialogue.

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Spring Show 2012

"The Woman in Black"

by Stephen Mallatratt

Presented with special permission of Samuel French Ltd

directed by Matt Brown

• April 25-28: 8:00 pm
• April 29: 2:00 pm, Matinee
• May 1-5: 8:00 pm

The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true intent.

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