Night Sky
Scene from San Diego Theatre's Production
Photo by Nick Abadilla

 

Festival 2009

The following is a list of the groups and plays selected by Sandy MacDonald, the preliminary adjudicator, for this years Festival in Woodstock.

Monday March 16 – Aylmer Community Theatre

Bedtime Stories by Norm Foster

This show takes the audience into six different bedrooms to explore the nature of love with humour and sensitivity.

Tuesday, March 17 – Theatre Burlington 

Copenhagen  by Michael Frayn

Actual people, famous physicists, they are all dead and gone, but have come back to recreate a real and momentous historical mystery in world history from 1941. Using only what they find at hand, they circle the nucleus of the event like neutrons, with calamitous results.

Wednesday, March 18 – Galt Little Theatre

 Queen Milli of Galt  by Gary Kirkham.

A charming romantic comedy based on a true story. In l972 after the death of the Duke of Windsor, an 80 year old woman from the small town of Galt dies and on her tombstone  is engraved ‘The Wife of the Duke of Windsor’.   

Thursday, March 19 –  Theatre Sarnia

Night Sky by Susan Yankowitz

Night Sky is about listening and language, about inner and outer space, about a medical condition, a family's ordeal, an individual triumph - but most of all, it is about communication.

Friday March 20 – Elora Community Theatre 

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy M. Montgomery, adapted for stage by Joseph Robinette (non-musical).

The enduring Canadian classic about the orphan girl Anne Shirley and her quest for friendship, love, acceptance and a home

All shows at 8:00 pm at The Market Centre Theatre, 22 Reeve Street

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