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Join
TheatreOne on two very different emotional journeys
TheatreOne is excited to announce their two Spring 2010 Mainstage Plays.
March
11-13, TheatreOne will present Jakes Gift; a powerful comedy-drama about
a cantankerous WWII veteran who reluctantly returns to Juno Beach for the 60th
Anniversary D-Day. While there, he meets Isabelle, a precocious 10-year-old from
the local village, whose inquisitive nature and charm challenge the old veteran
to confront some long ignored ghosts.
Written
and performed by Canadian Playwright Julia Mackey, Jake’s Gift has won
numerous awards including Best Solo Show, Best Drama, and Best Female Performer
at the Victoria Fringe Festival in 2008 and the Best of the Fest at the 2008
Edmonton Fringe Festival.
In
2004, Julia traveled to Normandy, France, for the 69th Anniversary of
D-Day. While there, she interviewed dozens of WW2 veterans from Canada, Britain
and America who had returned for the ceremonies. Their stories and the events
that unfolded on her eight day journey were the inspiration to create Jake’s
Gift.
TheatreOne takes you from the heroic and historic to a comically charming
Foster classic.
Can
two people who are so obviously wrong for each other get it right? This is the
question poised by Canada’s most popular and prolific playwright, Norm Foster,
in the romantic comedy Wrong For Each Other.
A
chance meeting in a restaurant, after four years apart, sends a couple flashing
back through the highs and lows of their courtship and marriage. It is a
hilarious and often heart-breaking look at the rollercoaster ride of a
relationship. Buckle up and join them on their wild ride through the past in
this hilarious and heart-warming comedy.
According to director Garry Davey, “Norm Foster is a compassionate and caring
writer who never fails to engage with warm humour and sometimes heart-breaking
pathos – I am very excited to direct one of his best-loved plays. His characters
are warm, witty, touching and achingly human.”
Norm
Foster was born in Newmarket, Ontario on St. Valentine's Day. Raised in Toronto
he studied Radio & Television Arts at Centennial College in Toronto and then
Confederation College in Thunder Bay. Upon completion of his studies, he began a
radio career that would span 25 years and which would take him from Thunder Bay
to Winnipeg to Kingston and finally to Fredericton, New Brunswick. It was in
Fredericton in 1980 that Norm was introduced to the world of theatre.
"A
friend of mine was going to audition for a community theatre production of
'Harvey' and he asked me to go along. I went, just for a lark, and I wound up
getting the part of Elwood P. Dowd. The funny thing is, I had never even seen a
play in my life before this."
Since
then, Norm Foster has produced an astonishing output of work. Nearly forty plays
in all, including The Affections of May, the most produced play in Canada
in 1991.
Wrong for
Each Other
will run from April 21-25 at the VIU Malaspina Theatre. Tickets will be sold
through The Port Theatre, 250.754.8850. Preview night tickets are $15 ($12 for
groups of 10 or more) All other dates are $25 ($18 for groups of 10 or more)
TheatreOne members and Fringe Flick Subscribers receive a $5 discount (excluding
preview night). Evening shows start at 7:30 Saturday & Sunday Matinees at 2 pm
Jakes’
Gift
will be presented at The Bailey Studio. Tickets to the Thursday, March 11
Preview night are $15 (groups of 10 or more $12) and tickets for the Thursday
and Friday performances are $18 (groups of 10 or more $15) Show starts at 7:30
pm. Tickets are available
directly from TheatreOne by phone, 250.754.7587 or online at
www.theatreone.org
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