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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