Courtenay Little Theatre | Comox Valley, BC

UPCOMING PRODUCTIONS

Courtenay Little Theatre and Theatre BC serve for your pleasure...
A DRAMA BUFFET
The North Island Zone Drama Festival May 12-16
at the Sid Williams Theatre

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Feast your senses on a smorgasbord of
five fabulous shows for $50!

Showtime 7:30 pm at the Sid Williams Theatre in Courtenay

Tickets:
All Five Shows for $50
Adults $15 - Students $7
Theatre BC Members $13.50
Festival Seating

at the Sid Williams Ticket Centre 338-2430 www.sidwilliamstheatre.com

Monday May 12th - Courtenay Little Theatre presents "Mail Order Bride", a bittersweet comedy by Robert Clinton, directed by Alana Gowdy
Tuesday May 13th - Echo Player from Qualicum Beach presents, "I Never Sang for My Father" , a drama by Robert Anderson, directed by Don Harper
Wednesday May 14th - Nanaimo Theatre Group- "Arms and the Man" George Bernard Shaw classic comedy, Directed by Roger Desprez
Thursday May 15th - TheatreWorks from Courtenay presents "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me", a drama by Frank McGuinness, directed by Kymme Patrick
Friday May 16th - Portal Players From Port Alberni presents "The Dinner Party" a melocomedy by Neil Simon, directed by Peter Wienold

Awards Banquet at the CLT Space
Saturday, May 17th at 6:00

Courtenay Little Theatre is looking forward to hosting this exciting week of theatre with plays being presented from Nanaimo to Campbell River. Every evening a new play will be presented for adjudication.

Mr. Stephen Drover has been chosen to adjudicate for the North Island Zone. The Artistic Director for Pound of Flesh Theatre Company in Vancouver, Mr. Dover has adjudicated many festivals for Theatre BC and is a favorite at Mainstage. He is especially popular for his Shakespeare workshops.

This festival presents a great opportunity for audiences to see some very good community theatre and to compare your opinions with those of the knowledgeable adjudicator. The process generally promotes some stimulating conversation. Plays likely to be on the playbill are: "Arms and The Man" by George Bernard Shaw; "I Never Sang For My Father" by Robert Anderson; "The Dinner Party" by Neil Simon and "Mail Order Bride" by Robert Clinton.

Synopses

The Mail Order Bride by Robert Clinton - Comedy/Drama
May 12    Courtenay Little Theatre
sponsored by the Comox Valley Echo

The setting is the Saskatchewan prairie and the play follows the lives of the Teeter family and their neighbours from the arrival of the mail order bride in 1908 until the time of her death in 1954. Rich with humour and the bittersweet realities of a time gone by, this is a vivd, moving and often surprising evocation of the true nature of family and love.

I Never Sang For My Father by Robert Anderson - Drama
May 13    Echo Players - Qualicum

A very dramatic, very psychologically driven play dealing with intense conflict within a family. This is the story of Gene, a widower, with an elderly mother whom he loves and an eighty-year-old father, whom he has never loved, hard as he tried.

Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw - Romantic/Social Comedy
May 14 Nanaimo Theatre Group

ARMS AND THE MAN questions the false notions of war and love in Bulgaria and Russia in 1885. The old saying "All's fair in Love and War" isn't always true or is it? This play is one of Shaw's most frequently performed classic comedies. It crackles with his wit and charm as it illuminates the humour of both heroic and romantic ideals turned upside down.

Someone Who'll Watch Over Me by Frank McGuiness - Drama
May 15 TheatreWorks - Courtneay

Three men are being held in a Beruit prison. Even though the men are stripped bare of their clothes, their emotions and their freedom they have the courage to remain human. Featuring: Ross Stephanson, Tony Arnold and Robert Conway

The Dinner Party by Neil Simon - Comedy/Drama
May 16   Portal Players - Port Alberni

Written in 2001, this fusion of farce and drama brings three divorced couples together in an examination of intimate relationships. One hundred minutes of arguments, accusations, and revelations later two of the couples appear to have a chance at reconciliation.

Each performance will followed by a public adjudication by Stephen Drover and one play will be chosen to represent our zone at Theatre BC's Mainstage. The Artistic Director for Pound of Flesh Theatre Company in Vancouver, Mr. Dover has adjudicated many festivals for Theatre BC and is a favorite at Mainstage. He is especially popular for his Shakespeare workshops.