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The King's Town Players Announce the 2019-2020 Season
Written by Chris McKinnonThe King's Town Players Announce the 2019-2020 Season
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Goodbye, Piccadilly
by Douglas Bowie
May 9th to 11th, 2019 - 7:30 pm
May 14th to 18th, 2019 - 7:30 pm
The Firehall, 185 South Street, Gananoque, ON
Tickets: $22 adults / $19 students/seniors/military / $12 youth (18 and under) (includes Box Office Fees)
Goodbye, Piccadilly begins with Bess Brickley in a flurry of excitement. She's just learned that Brick, her husband of more than 50 years, has been awarded the Order of Canada.This has barely had time to sink in, however, when she receives the shocking news that Brick has been found dead on a bench in Leicester Square in London, England. This is a tragedy cloaked in a mystery because she thought he was on his annual canoe trip in Algonquin Park. As layers are peeled away, secrets stretching back to World War II are uncovered. Full of heart, humour and surprises, Goodbye, Piccadilly is a universal story about the families we have and the families we make.
Directed by Stephen Powell
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald,
adapted for the stage by Simon Levy
March 27th to 30th, 2019 - 7:30 pm
April 3rd to 6th, 2019 - 7:30 pm
Davies Foundation Auditorium, Domino Theatre, 59 Church Street
Tickets: $20 adults / $17 students/seniors/military / $10 youth (18 and under)
Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, passionately pursues the elusive Daisy Buchanan. Nick Carraway, a young newcomer to Long Island, is drawn into their world of obsession, greed and danger. The breathtaking glamour and decadent excess of the Jazz Age come to the stage in F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, and in Simon Levy's adaptation, approved by the Fitzgerald Estate.
Directed by Dylan Chenier
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
January 23rd to 26th, 2019 - 7:30 pm
January 30th to February 2nd, 2019 - 7:30 pm
Kingston Yacht Club, 1 Maitland Street
Tickets: $20 adults / $17 students/seniors/military / $10 youth (18 and under)
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is an exuberant comedy and feminist revisioning of Shakespeare’s Othello and Romeo and Juliet. It takes us from a dusty office in Canada’s Queen’s University, into the fraught and furious worlds of two of Shakespeare’s best-known tragedies, and turns them upside-down.
Constance Ledbelly is the beleaguered “spinster” academic, and unlikely heroine who embarks on a quest for Shakespearean origins and, ultimately, her own identity. When she deciphers an ancient and neglected manuscript, Constance is propelled through a very modern rabbit hole and lands smack in the middle of the tragic turning points of each play in turn. Her attempts to save first Desdemona, then Juliet, from their harrowing fates, result in a wild unpredictable ride through comedy and near-tragedy, as mild-mannered Constance learns to love, sword-fight, dance Renaissance-style, and master a series of disguises… Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) a gender-bendy, big-hearted and crazily intelligent romp, where irony and anger sing in perfect harmony with innocence and poignancy.
Directed by Matthew Davis
Santa Claus the Panto
by Richard Linley
November 21-24, 2018 - 7:30 pm
November 24, 2018 - 1:30 pm
November 28-December 1, 2018 - 7:30 pm
December 1, 2018 - 1:30 pm
The Firehall, 185 South Street, Gananoque
Tickets: $22 adult / $19 student/senior/military / $12 youth (18 and under) / $53 family pass (including Box Office Fees)
Archvillain Dr. Fiendish McAwful and his assistant, Eyesore, begin their campaign to undermine Christmas by stealing the secret of Santa’s flying reindeer. Working to thwart their dastardly scheme is Mrs. Claus, the Clauses’ daughter, Sandra, Kevin, an ice-country pilot, Cosmos, an underemployed reindeer, two stable elves, Stoop and Scoop, the Christmas Spirit (personified), the Workshop Elves, and Santa, himself!
Directed by Richard Linley
Presented in cooperation with AVABANANA.
Vimy
by Vern Thiessen
September 26th to 29th, 2018 - 7:30 pm
September 29th, 2018 - 1:30 pm
October 3rd to 6th, 2018 - 7:30 pm
October 6th, 2018 - 1:30 pm
Baby Grand Theatre, Kingston Grand Theatre, 218 Princess Street
Tickets: $22.25 adults / $19.25 students/seniors/military / $12.25 youth (18 and under) (plus handling fees)
France, 1917. Four wounded Canadian soldiers recover in a field hospital in the wake of the battle for Vimy Ridge, waiting to find out where they’ll be sent next: back home or back to the front. Along with a young nurse from Nova Scotia, they share their stories, reasons for fighting, and treasured memories. In Vimy, Governor General’s Literary Award–winner Vern Thiessen brings us a classic play that is not about war, but a reflection of the everyday lives of soldiers—their hopes and their dreams—and how actions can define individuals and nations.
Directed by Chris McKinnon
The King's Town Players Announce the 2018-2019 Season
Written by Chris McKinnonThe King's Town Players Announce the 2018-2019 Season
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Les Belles-Soeurs
by Michel Tremblay
Translated by Bill Glasco and John Van Burek
October 11th to 14th, 2017 - 7:30 pm
October 18th to 21st, 2017 - 7:30 pm
Baby Grand Theatre, Kingston Grand Theatre, 218 Princess Street
Tickets: $22.08 adults / $19.08 students/seniors/military (plus Grand Theatre fees)
Michel Tremblay’s classic dark comedy, Les Belles-Soeurs, is set in 1965 Montreal against the backdrop of the “quiet revolution”. Change is coming in Quebec and Canada, and in the kitchen of Germaine Lauzon, who gathers family, friends & neighbours, to celebrate her good fortune; the winning of one million trading stamps. Through laughter, and tears, the evening of celebration reveals three generations of women with nothing to lose and everything to gain, joined together as they attempt to reconquer their dignity as human beings.
Directed by Sean Roberts
A Christmas Carol
by Richard Linley
Based on the story by Charles Dickens
December 6th to 9th, 2017 - 7:30 pm
December 13th to 16th, 2017 - 7:30 pm
December 16th - 1:30 pm
Convocation Hall, Theological Hall, Queen's University
Tickets: $20 adults / $17 students/seniors/military / $10 youth / $50 family pass
The Industrial Revolution has brought riches to some in London, but left much of the population destitute. Ebenezer Scrooge is among the fortunate few, but he has allowed his pursuit of wealth to eclipse all thoughts of tenderness for the rest of humanity. Scrooge does not discriminate: He hates everyone equally, and sees Christmas (“Humbug!”) as an excuse for his poor clerk, Bob Cratchit, to do him out of a day’s earnings once a year for no work done. Then, on Christmas Eve in 1843, Scrooge is paid a visit by the ghost his long-dead partner, Jacob Marley. Marley is determined to save the terrified Scrooge from himself, and sets about doing so with the help of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet To Come. Sure to delight young and old alike!
Directed by Richard Linley
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Superior Donuts
by Tracy Letts
January 31st to February 3rd, 2018 - 7:30 pm
February 7th to February 10th, 2018 - 7:30 pm
Kingston Yacht Club, 1 Maitland Street
Tickets: $20 adults / $17 students/seniors/military
Arthur Przybyszewski is the proprietor of Superior Donuts, a donut store in present day Chicago. Neither he nor his business is aging well, being made redundant by gentrification and a plethora of Starbucks popping up around his neighbor. A small, loyal clientele keeps him barely afloat, but it is painfully obviously both Arthur and his store are fading into ignominy. Enter Franco Wicks, a young African-American man who brings with him youthful energy, a refreshing worldview, and his masterpiece, the great American novel. Through poignant, funny dialogue Arthur and Franco form a friendship that transcends age and race, transforming the lives of these two men. Yet Franco has a dark past, and as it begins to catch up to him Arthur is thrust into making decisions that will shape his livelihood, and the lives of him and Franco against the canvas of a changing Chicago.
Directed by Mae Whalen
Blood Relations
by Sharon Pollock
March 21st to 24th, 2018 - 7:30 pm
March 28th to 31st, 2018 - 7:30 pm
Davies Foundation Auditorium, Domino Theatre, 59 Church Street
Tickets: $20 adults / $17 students/seniors/military
“Lizzie Borden took an axe...” begins the classic schoolyard rhyme that sets the stage for Sharon Pollock’s award-winning historical drama.
In 1892, Andrew and Abigail Borden were brutally murdered in their Fall River home. Their daughter Lizzie, though acquitted in court, was the only suspect ever charged. Debate as to her guilt continues to this day. Instead of a whodunit, Pollock has crafted a ‘whydunit’, examining life in the Borden household and in the world around it, to discover what might drive a spinster daughter to send her parents into the great beyond in such a memorable fashion. Most provocatively the play asks ‘Would you do it?’
Directed by Dylan Chenier
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
May 16th to 19th, 2018 - 7:30 pm
May 23rd to 26th, 2018 - 7:30 pm
The Firehall, 185 South Street, Gananoque, ON
Tickets: $20 adults / $17 students/seniors/military / $10 youth (18 and under) (plus Box Office Fees)
On a distant island a man waits.
Robbed of his position, power and wealth, his enemies have left him in isolation. But this is no ordinary man, and this no ordinary island. Prospero is a magician, able to control the very elements and bend nature to his will.
When a sail appears on the horizon, he reaches out across the ocean to the ship that carries the men who wronged him. Creating a vast magical storm he wrecks the ship and washes his enemies up on the shore. When they wake they find themselves lost on a fantastical island where nothing is as it seems.
Directed by Steven Spencer
The King's Town Players Announce the 2017-2018 Season
Written by Chris McKinnonThe King's Town Players Announce the 2017-2018 Season
LES BELLES-SOEURS
Written by Michel Tremblay
Translated by Bill Glasco and John Van Burek
Directed by Sean Roberts
Germaine Lauzon is the lucky winner of one million green stamps. Watch what happens when fourteen of Germaine’s friends, neighbours, and family members join her in her small kitchen in working-class Montreal to help celebrate her good fortune. This landmark of Canadian theatre has been performed the world over: both humorous and moving.
Performance Dates: October 11-14, 18-21, 2017
Baby Grand Theatre, Kingston Grand Theatre, 218 Princess Street
CHARLES DICKENS' A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Written and Directed by Richard Linley
Based on the story by Charles Dickens
The Industrial Revolution has brought riches to some in London, but left much of the population destitute. Ebenezer Scrooge is among the fortunate few, but he has allowed his pursuit of wealth to eclipse all thoughts of tenderness for the rest of humanity. Scrooge does not discriminate: He hates everyone equally, and sees Christmas (“Humbug!”) as an excuse for his poor clerk, Bob Cratchit, to do him out of a day’s earnings once a year for no work done. Then, on Christmas Eve in 1843, Scrooge is paid a visit by the ghost his long-dead partner, Jacob Marley. Marley is determined to save the terrified Scrooge from himself, and sets about doing so with the help of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet To Come. Sure to delight young and old alike!
Performance Dates: December 6-9, December 13-16, 2017
Convocation Hall, Queen's Theological Hall, Queen's University
SUPERIOR DONUTS
Written by Tracy Letts
Directed by Mae Whalen
Arthur Przybyszewski is the proprietor of Superior Donuts, a donut store in present day Chicago. Neither he nor his business is aging well, being made redundant by gentrification and a plethora of Starbucks popping up around his neighbor. A small, loyal clientele keeps him barely afloat, but it is painfully obviously both Arthur and his store are fading into ignominy. Enter Franco Wicks, a young African-American man who brings with him youthful energy, a refreshing worldview, and his masterpiece, the great American novel. Through poignant, funny dialogue Arthur and Franco form a friendship that transcends age and race, transforming the lives of these two men. Yet Franco has a dark past, and as it begins to catch up to him Arthur is thrust into making decisions that will shape his livelihood, and the lives of him and Franco against the canvas of a changing Chicago.
Performance Dates: January 31-February 3, February 7-February 10, 2018
Kingston Yacht Club, 1 Maitland Street, Kingston
BLOOD RELATIONS
Written by Sharon Pollock
Directed by Dylan Chenier
“Lizzie Borden took an axe...” begins the classic schoolyard rhyme that sets the stage for Sharon Pollock’s award-winning historical drama.
In 1892, Andrew and Abigail Borden were brutally murdered in their Fall River home. Their daughter Lizzie, though acquitted in court, was the only suspect ever charged. Debate as to her guilt continues to this day. Instead of a whodunit, Pollock has crafted a ‘whydunit’, examining life in the Borden household and in the world around it, to discover what might drive a spinster daughter to send her parents into the great beyond in such a memorable fashion. Most provocatively the play asks ‘Would you do it?’
Performance Dates: March 21-24, 28-31, 2018
Domino Theatre, 52 Church Street, Kingston
THE TEMPEST
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Steven Spencer
On a distant island a man waits.
Robbed of his position, power and wealth, his enemies have left him in isolation. But this is no ordinary man, and this no ordinary island. Prospero is a magician, able to control the very elements and bend nature to his will.
When a sail appears on the horizon, he reaches out across the ocean to the ship that carries the men who wronged him. Creating a vast magical storm he wrecks the ship and washes his enemies up on the shore. When they wake they find themselves lost on a fantastical island where nothing is as it seems.
