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CLT’s Upcoming Productions

Spring 2024

Directed by Annie Smith

At the Sid Williams Theatre March 31-April 7, 2024

North Island Zone Festival – TBA one performance in during the week of May 19-25, 2024

SYNOPSIS

And Up They Flew, by Martha Ross, was written and performed in Toronto in 2007. It was published in 2009, and CLT Director, Annie Smith, directed a production of the play in 2010 in Grande Prairie, Alberta. Annie says, “I fell in love with the play because it is both zany and heartfelt. Seven mismatched characters meet up for a weekend in a British country manor in 1936. There are rumblings of war in Europe-an uncertain time that presages our own. It is a British Farce, with comings and goings in the middle of the night, a séance, characters trying desperately to find a place to have a clandestine affair, a mad inventor, a shell-shocked WWI veteran, a woman pilot wanting to fly solo across the Atlantic, a 95 year old woman who runs away to be with her true love, and a maid who isn’t a maid. It is fun and entertaining. In this ensemble play where all the characters are equally important, actors are guaranteed to have a good workout!”

CAST

Nora Duckworth: Jessie Hargreaves
Jane Ashbury: Autumn Olenik
Roger Ashbury: Richard Ostler
Ted Pitt: Alan Morgan
Claire Pitt: Celine D Peters
Daphne Crunchwell: Jeannine Taylor
Marlow Stokes: Wes Buckle

Courtenay Little Theatre respectfully acknowledges that the land we gather on is on the
Unceded Traditional Territory of the K’ómoks First Nation, the traditional keepers of this land.

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