The Revenge of the Three Little Pigs
written by Doug Wright

The Petrolia Community Theatre presents a new Christmas Comedy, "Revenge of the Three Little Pigs", by Doug Wright. It's a hilarious look at your favourite storybook characters in a boisterous, colourful tale. This is a lively comedy for people of all ages with plenty of physical escapades for youngsters as well as political and local humour for adults.

The story: Queen Cinderella and King Charming rule Fairytale land in peace and harmony, until their rebellious daughter, Princess Ella, pursues a Hollywood romance with a handsome but unsuitable commoner. To add to their problems, the Three Little Pigs are having housing problems due to a big bad wolf... every full moon. The Fairy Godmother could clear up this mess, but she is on maternity leave. Forced into action, the pigs overthrow the royals and take justice into their own hands...or hoofs. But can a pig dabbling in politics be piglitically correct? Add to this lot: Cinderella's demanding Step-Mother, swarms of adorable little bees and a musically talented busker, to create a fun-filled evening for everyone.

CAST

• Steve CarapietBusker
  
• Geoffrey HawkinsLittle Pig #1
  
• Bronwyn WonnacottLittle Pig #2
  
• Maureen GrandisLittle Pig #3
  
• Charlene MumbersonQueen Cindy
  
• Doug WrightKing Charming
  
• Lyn FauldsMartha Ville
  
• Hannah HavemanPrincess Ella
  
• Megan DouglasGirl With Glasses
  
• Joey HawkinsEthelwolf
  
• Liam MilliganAlfred
  
• Emma HollingsworthPaige the Page
  
• Sarah & Rebekah HornblowerHorse
  
• Danna AndradeQueen Bee
  
• Sydney TopliffeLittle Bee
  
• Gillian JohnstonLittle Bee
  
• Julia HornblowerLittle Bee
  
• Kristy Brooks Van MeenenLittle Bee
  
• Emily HornblowerLittle Bee
  
• Bethany HornblowerLittle Bee
  
• Emilie JagtDancer
  
• Alyson JagtDancer
  
• Carla RankinCourtier
  
• Bonnie HarrisCourtier
  
• Carol GrahamCourtier
  

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Shootout at the Sacred Heart Saloon

A Whoop-it-up, Bust-a-gut comedy by Teresa Brown

 

When the town boundaries change leaving half the saloon dry, the church (in desperate need of a building) moves into the dry half. What follows is action-packed fun as they sort it out. It's minister vs bartender, saloon girl vs church lady, barroom brawls vs. hymn singing... and the town drunk is on his own. But, can they work together to save the building?

Set in the 1800's, a remote town out west somewhere. Summer. The play opens with a bar room brawl complete with breaking furniture and someone going through the window! The whoop-it-up western comedy has it all: flirty saloon girls, fighting cowboys, and a honky tonk piano player. It also has a nervous Preacher, some feisty church ladies and a shootout!

• Carol GrahamDirected By
  

 

Cast:

• Lyn FauldsJosephine (Jo) McSweeney (bartender)
  
• Bonnie HarrisClarabel (saloon girl)
  
• Charlene MumbersonRosabel (saloon girl)
  
• Stephanie CattrysserAnnabel (saloon girl)
  
• Teresa InglesJezebel (saloon girl)
  
• Steve CarapietPiano Player
  
• Neil WerdenRufus (cowboy)
  
• Bert de RooLazarus (town drunk)
  
• Lorne LiddiardRufus (cowboy)
  
• Brent LiddiardFighting Cowboy
  
• Warren GrahamFighting Cowboy
  
• Nathan CalvankFighting Cowboy
  
• Shawn CalvankKitchen Boy
  
• Roy ButlerPastor Percival Parson
  
• Amanda CalvankDaisy Parson (daughter)
  
• Dina McPheeHelen (Ladies Auxiliary)
  
• Vicki BurgessHester (Ladies Auxiliary
  
• Carrolleigh CecileGeorgette (Ladies Auxilliary)
  
• Emilie JagtChurch Lady
  
• Bronwyn WonnacottChurch Child
  
• Nathan CalvankMr. Potts (surveyor)
  
• Roy SagerMr. Smith (town councillor)
  
• Ken LoganMr. Jones (town councillor)
  
• Henry AnjemaMr. Smith-Jones (town councillor)
  

Steel Magnolias

Set in a beauty parlor in Chinquapin, Louisiana, Steel Magnolias illustrates how the lives of six distinctly different women interweave via the small town gossip that shadows the unending cycle of birth, marriage and death. Filled with hilarious Southern repartee and humorously revealing verbal collisions, the play draws on the town's underlying strength-and love-which gives the play, and its characters, the special quality to make them truly touching, funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and in bad.

Directed by: Megan Hadley

Producer: Wendy Bratanek

Assistant Producer: Patci Stephens

Stage Manager: Lynda Agocs

 

Cast:

Truvy - Andrea Hughes

Annelle - Jessica Core

Claree - Karissa Teskey

Shelby - Haley Pretty

M'Lynn - Dina McPhee

Ouiser - Diane Hadley

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A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, adapted by Romulus Linney

Bob Cratchit, played by Kirby Sanderson, holds Tiny Tim, Megan Davis, on his shoulder.

To catch the spirit of the holiday season, we're staging the best loved story of Charles Dickens, "A Christmas Carol." For more than 150 years, this Victorian tale of the heartless miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, has struck an emotional chord with audience both young and old. This Christmas classic endures, for it shows that we all possess the power to change ourselves, and reminds us that love for our fellow man will give us far more happiness than money.

On Christmas Eve, four ghosts awaken Scrooge and attempt to show him the error of his ways. Throughout the night we meet the impoverished yet happy family of Bob Cratchit, the beautiful Belle, the festive Mr. Fezziwig, and, of course, the endearing Tiny Tim.

Full of beautiful Victorian costumes, fluid sets, and dazzling special effects, this two-hour show (includes intermission) has a cast of 43 community actors from Petrolia, Sarnia, Parkhill, Forest, Dresden and many other locations. Cookies and hot apple cider will be on sale during intermission. Whether it's a family building memories or a business group celebrating the season, this production is sure to win the hearts of young and old alike. As Tiny Tim says, "God Bless us Everyone!"

Cast:

• Sylvia FairbankNarrator:
  
• Julia LatonStory Kid:
  
• Emma McEwen-HarveyStory Kid:
  
• Warren GrahamScrooge:
  
• Doug WrightGhost of Marley:
  
• Nancy DeJeuGhost of Christmas' Past:
  
• Doug WrightGhost of Christmas Present:
  
• Celeste CaskanetteIgnorance:
  
• Bethany HornblowerWant:
  
• Nancy DeJeuGhost of Christmas' To Come:
  
• Kirby SandersonBob Cratchit:
  
• Teresa Ingles Mrs. Cratchit:
  
• Sara Cecile Martha Cratchit:
  
• Deker InglesPeter Cratchit:
  
• Michelle AinsworthMiranda Cratchit:
  
• Bronwyn WonnacottGillian Cratchit:
  
• Chantal Laton Belinda Cratchit:
  
• Megan Davis Tiny Tim Cratchit:
  
• Simon McEwen-Harvey Scrooge-boy:
  
• Geoff HawkinsOrsen:
  
• Caleb HornblowerValentine:
  
• Shannon SearsonFan:
  
• Tim MayheadScrooge, youth:
  
• Lydia SandersonBelle, younger:
  
• Steve CarapietMr. Fezziwig:
  
• Vicki BurgessMrs. Fezziwig:
  
• Julia SoetemansDaughter 1:
  
• Katherine McNabbDaughter 2:
  
• Isabella Maria EngbergDaughter 3:
  
• Shawn CalvankSuitor 1:
  
• Liam MilliganSuitor 2:
  
• Dekker InglesSuitor 3:
  
• Joan PlantViolinist:
  
• Katie JohnsonViolinist:
  
• Nathan CalvankScrooge, older:
  
• Nikky DeJeuBelle, older:
  
• Jonathan KrallFred/Nephew:
  
• Amanda CalvankNiece in Law:
  
• Megan DouglasSister:
  
• Nathan CalvankTopper:
  
• Roy ButlerGentleman 1:
  
• Stephen HodgettsGentleman 2:
  
• Julia HornblowerBoy Singing:
  
• Joey HawkinsTurkey Boy:
  
• CathyCaroline:
  
• Art ParkHusband:
  
• Roy ButlerBusinessman 1:
  
• Ross RundleBusinessman 2:
  
• Steve CarapietBusinessman 3:
  
• Maureen GrandisCharwoman:
  
• Sarah HornblowerLaundress:
  
• Mrs.Carroleigh CecileUndertakers' Woman:
  
• Bert de RooOld Joe:
  
• Geoff HawkinsOld Joe's Boy:
  

Local Writing and Composing Add Zip to It's A Wonderful Life

Kristina Campbell has always been a huge fan of The Andrew Sisters. She and her young family would sometimes listen to 1940s radio shows on podcasts as a fun family thing to do. Now, she gets to be one of The Andrew Sisters in Petrolia Community Theatre's production It's A Wonderful Life, the radio-on-stage version. And even better, she was chosen to write the music and lyrics for the play's 1940s-style commercial jingles.

In this version of the beloved Christmas classic, the stage is set as a live radio play of 1948. All commercials for the radio shows of this era were sung so in this production has The Andrew Sisters (Kristine Campbell, Carol Graham and Danna Andrade) singing about the show's sponsors.

Campbell was a natural choice for composing the jingles. In the summer, word hit the grapevine that there was a great performance of Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy at Petrolia's Art In the Park. When play director Richard Teskey got wind of it, he asked all three to be The Andrew Sisters in the production. Then he learned that Kristina was already singing and writing songs for the alternative folk rock band, Ellis Ave. That's when he offered her the challenging task of composing the jingles for the play. The music had to be good, it had to have an authentic 1940s sound and it had to advertise three real Petrolia businesses – Grandis Jewellers, Lilith lingerie and VanTuyl and Fairbank Solarware.

"There was just no way I was going to say 'no' to this," says Campbell. "This all happened because Carol (Graham) decided to sing The Andrew Sisters at Art in the Park." The trio, now reunited for the play, also sing a few other songs and there have been many rehearsals in garages and kitchens.

Campbell is no stranger to theatre and was an active actress back in her days at Brescia College of the University of Western Ontario. With Petrolia Community Theatre she has appeared as prickly spinster, a needle-wielding nurse, a simple Scottish maid and as a fairy sprinkling magic dust. As well, she has performed in the oil history productions of Spirit Walk at the Oil Museum of Canada. In her real life, she is an educational therapist in Petrolia who writes literature study guides and homeschools her sons.

The music Campbell is composing will be unique to the Petrolia production, it won't be found in other places where it may be staged. Another dollop of originality is found in the opening scene. It was written by director Richard Teskey and has the blessing of the play's scriptwriter Tony Palermo. This is almost unheard of. Scripts are protected by ironclad copyrights and not one iota of the play can be changed without written permission of the author.

Palermo wrote the radio-on-stage version in 1997 and has a website. This is how Teskey first contacted the playwright in Los Angeles. Teskey was interested in adding some visual zest to the opening of the play and thought the cast of the radio station could be given some personality if they had some lines. He wrote a new opening act and there was a flurry of e-mails between Petrolia and Los Angeles. Finally, Palermo agreed that he could add an act but this had to be completely separate from the actual play. It also had to be free of plot.

Teskey was delighted to get any approval at all. "He was very, very responsive," Teskey happily reported. This new scene will contribute to making the Petrolia Community Theatre production unlike any other.

It's the first time Teskey has directed with Petrolia Community Theatre and he has also worked backstage as a stage manager for the troupe's pantomime, Cinderella. Six years ago, he portrayed Max, the coach for the Von Trapp family singers, in its production of The Sound of Music. And in 1995, he appeared in its play, Caesar and Cleopatra. His acting career actually began on a dare. When the Petrolia high school staged Oklahoma, a friend dared him to try out and a bet was placed. Teskey won a leading role and the bet.

High school ended but his interest in theatre was only beginning. He now works as a councillor for Rebound and has directed five plays with secondary school students, sometimes in partnerships with elementary schools. What's the difference between working with kids and working with adults? It's the energy, says Teskey. With the kids, it's a matter of tamping it down a bit, with the adults, it's revving it up.

Cast

Actor	Radio Personality	Character in Script
Pete Aarssen	Walter Lawrence: Straight laced hobby actor. Polite and gentlemanly	George
Bonnie Harris	Maxine Stewart: plays by the book, is diligent and works as a vocal coach when not doing radio.	Mary
Danielle Aarssen	Lillian Marx: a diva, unstable and depressed, pretentious.	Violet, Cousin Tilly, Mrs.Davis
TBA	Eugene Simpson: is new to show biz, quirky and awkward, is eager to learn	Clarence
Michael Henry	William Donovan: has a nervous quality and is often fretting about something	Announcer / Superintendent
Steve Carapiet	Edward Billings: a gentleman, kind but sometimes forgetful	Mr. Potter, Mr. Gower, Ernie, Martini, Charlie
Sylvia Fairbank	Tess McCormic: SS #14 school teacher; energetic and excitable	Ma Bailey, Eustace, Impatient Neighbour, Mrs.Thompson
Jimmy Plunkett	Fritz Randolph: quiet / shy	Pop Bailey, Mr. Welsh, Randy
Teresa Ingles	June Sumner: emotional and solemn	Mrs. Hatch, Bank Teller
Bert de Roo	Maxwell Collins: a sponsor and executive	Toll Taker, Mr. Carter, Harry Bailey, Same Wainwright, Uncle Billy
Art Parkes	Jack Thompson: sponsor, competitive	Officer Bert, Sherrif Nick, Eddy
Nathan Calvank	Jonnie Clawson: energetic, thoughtful	Sound FX
Deker Ingles	Student of SS #14	Petey Bailey
Amanda Calvank	Student of SS #14	Zuzu
Shawn Calvank	Student of SS #14	Young George, Jimmy the Parrot, Janie Bailey
Barbara Prescott	Dottie Brooks: direct, to the point	Stage Manager
Carol Graham	Commercial Singer
Danna Andrade	Commercial Singer
Kristina Campbell	Commercial Singer

Perils at Petrolia
Or
Dastardly Doings at the Derrick
Or
Foiled by Oil

A melodrama by Rita Baker

Remount of a play first produced by Petrolia Players (a precursor to Petrolia Community Theatre) in March 1976 

Based around an oil well, this happily-ever-after, old-fashioned melodrama features heroines and villains. Poor plotting of the nearly broke, Sir Sidney Slick, who is told by the Gypsy that Henry Fairburn's oil well is about to 'come in' and make the owner very rich leads to twists and turns.

Slick, hoping to get rich quick with very little effort, tries to buy the well, but Fairburn won't sell. Slick is not one to let a little word like "no" stand in between him and wealth. He won't let a little thing like murder stand in his way.

Several love interests are threaded through the story. Emmeline falls in love with Charles, but her mother Florence, thinks she can do better. Maud hopes for the affections of oil man Eureka, but he hasn't grasped the concept of courting, let alone, marriage!

Music, mayhem and a heroine tied to the tracks... no wait, this is Petrolia and she is tied to an oil well. Who will save her before the well blows up?

Cast

Henry Fairburn	George Stephen
Florence Fairburn	Dina McPhee
Emmeline	Danielle Aarssen
Eureka Smith	Lorne Liddiard
Maud Tank	Kristina Campbell
Charles Angelhart	Nash Liddiard
Oriole	Katie McPhee
Gypsy	Evelyn Ward de Roo
Sir Sidney Slick ( akias Igor OOzlofski: the villain; a "remittance" man)	Frank Trainor
Voice of Sir Sidney Slick's alter ego	Steve Carapiet

 Crew

Director	Patci Stephen
Assistant Director	Sylvia Fairbank
Music Director and Piano Man	Steve Carapiet
Producer	Gwen Trone
Stage Manager	Charlene Mumberson
Wardrobe	Helen Ollerenshaw
Set	Tony Martin, Jane Austin
Props	Jennifer Weed
Special Effects	Bert de Roo

 

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A Christmas Story

book by Jean Shepherd - adapted by Philip Grecian

Cast

Ralph: Steve Carapiet	Ralphie: Tim Mayhead
Mother: Maureen Grandis	The Old Man: Doug Wright
Randy: Warren Potter	Flick: Andrew Moxley
Schwartz: Shawn Calvank	Ester Jane: Jennie McPhee
Helen: Katie Proctor	Miss Shields: Dina McPhee
Scut Farkas: Dylan Sylvester	Black Bart: Nathan Calvank
Desperado 1: Jeremy Bolzon	Desperado 2: Kyle Chamaillard
Red Ryder, Cowboy: Enzo Bolzon	Tree Lot Owner: Jimmy Plunkett
Delivery Man: Jimmy Plunkett	Santa Claus: Art Parkes
Elf: Amanda Calvank	Elf: Avery Brzobohaty
Mrs. Schwartz: Shelly Podolinsky	Neighbour: Bert de Roo
Radio Announcer: Warren Graham	Principal: Bert de Roo
Policeman: Jimmy Plunkett	Fireman: Enzo Bolzon

Crew

Director: Carol Graham	Producer: Warren Graham
Ass't Producer: Barbara Prescott	Stage Manager: Wendy Bratanek
ASM: Charlene Mumberson	ASM: Barbara Prescott
Book Holder: Shelley Podolinsky	Costumes: Karen Whiting
Costume Ass't: Bea Vasey	Dresser: Gail Potter
Dresser: Wendy Calvank	Dresser: Shelley Podolinsky
Set Construction: Warren Graham	Set Decor: Karen Benusik
Props: Sylvia Fairbank	Props: Jennifer Weed
Special Effects: Bert de Roo
Hair: Lindsay Peterson	Hair Ass't: Carla Rankin
Hair Ass't: Wendy Peterson
Poster Design: Carol Graham
Program Layout: Carol Graham	Program Editor/Writer: Pat McGee
Program Ads: Danna Andrade	Tickets: Wendy Bratanek
Publicity: Lindsay Peterson
Web publicity: Tracy Bolzon	Stage Crew: Warren Graham
Stage Crew: Nathan Calvank	Stage Crew: Kyle Chamaillard
Stage Crew: Jeremy Bolzon	Set Decor: Sylvia Fairbank
Set Decor: Jennifer Weed	Props Ass't: Gavin Snelgrove
Sound Operator: John MacIntyre	Sound Ass't: Mark Richter
Lighting Design: Dan Nagle	Lighting Operator: Wally Richter
	Lighting Operator: Kyle Richter
Set Painter: Karen Benusik	Set Painter: Jennifer Weed
Set Painter: Kathy Berry	Set Painter: Wendy Calvank
Set Painter: Carol Graham
Photography: Mary Ann Minaker	Lobby Display: Amanda Calvank
Box Office: Jane Cadman	House Manager: Laurissa Ellsworth

Are You Being Served?

by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft

Based on the British television comedy of the Grace Bros. Department store

 

The outrageously funny characters of Grace Brothers department store are busy at work preparing to go away on holiday together.

Several different episodes of the original sitcom are melded together to create the hilarious first act of this fast-paced comedy.

Ineptly dealing with customers, a malfunctioning elevator, and delivery of unusual goods keeps them on their toes. And that doesn't include the dance for young Mr. Grace!

Then there are the preparations necessary before traveling abroad with which Canadian audiences can certainly sympathize. Act two takes us to the tropical resort where nothing is as it seems nor as it should be.

Misinformation and dealing with the irregularities of a foreign country keep everyone moving right up to the unexpected conclusion..

• Director -  Carol Graham

• Producer -  Warren Graham

• Stage Manager -Candy Richter

Cast

• Gwen TroneMrs. Slocombe
  
• Henry AnjemaCaptain Peacock
  
• Bob NewmanYoung Mr. Grace
  
• Paul RichardsonMr. Rumbold
  
• Jimmy PlunkettMr. Grainger
  
• Doug WrightMr. Humphries
  
• Alan ChristieMr. Lucas
  
• Warren GrahamMr. Mash
  
• Haley PrettyMiss Brahams
  
• Cathy WarwickFemale Customer
  
• John BryneMale Customer
  
• Kristina CampbellNurse
  
• Art ParkesDon Bernardo
  
• Enzo BolzonCesar
  
• Tiffany AnjemaConchita
  
• Candace RouseTheresa
  

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Rumpelstiltskin

(Cinderella II - the sequel) - by Doug Wright

• Director - Carol Graham

• Producer - Sylvia Fairbank

• Asst. Producer - Barbara Prescott

This is a traditional English pantomime, like Peter Pan, where the audience shouts 'boo' for the bad guy, 'yay' for the good guy and helps to save the day.

A lively, fun-filled production with sparkling, colourful costumes; a few modified Christmas carols and even references to local businesses and popular TV shows

There is singing and dancing by a dismal band of buccaneers who were voted off the island, a shoe-tapping horse named Horace, Queen Cinderella who is obsessed with diet books and her hungry husband King Charming.

Add to this a not-so-Brave Prince, named Prince Oh-So-Brave who is in love with a golden-haired girl with golden eyes, nails and teeth (okay, so they are really yellow teeth - but a nice yellow!) who can spin straw into gold and you have a surefire happy ending - after a lot of misadventure which is sure to make you laugh out loud.

 

 

Children love pantomimes and adults, parents and grandparents love the glowing look of wonderment on the children's faces as they become part of this magical story. Don't miss this Christmas performance which is designed to share the magic of this special time of year.

This show is suitable for children ages: 6 to 90

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Adapted and Dramatized by Tim Kelly from the Classic thriller of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• Director - Joe Agocs

• Producer - George Stephens

 

Pollyanna

• Director - Danna Andrade

 

Creature Creeps

by Jack Sharkey

• Director - Warren Graham

• Producer - Carol Graham

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Miracle on 34th Street

by Valentine Davies
Adapted for stage by Patricia Di Benedetto Snyder, Will Severin, John Vreeke.
Underscoring & curtain song by Will Severin

• Co-Director - Henry Anjema

• Co-Director - Bev Hawkins

• Producer - Sandy Watson

The Perils of Persephone

by Dan Needles

• Director - Carol Graham

• Producer - Wendy Bratanek

 

 

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A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens
adapted by Romunlus Linney

• Director - Carol Graham

• Associate Producer - Lois McKay

• Associate Producer - Henry Anjema

 

 

The Sound of Music

• Artistic Director - Henry Anjema

• Music Director - Patricia Christie

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Cinderella

• Director: Phillip Keightley

 

 

Blithe Spirit

By Noel Coward (Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French Inc.)

Charles Condomine is writing a book and decides to host a dinner party and séance so that he my glean some colour and material about the fraudulent mediums.

But Madame Arcati, the so-called fake, summons up a spirit - the ghost of his first wife.

She is only visible to him though. Living with two wives is far more than Charles can handle.

• Directors- Patci Metcalfe & Henry Anjema

• Producers - Bev Hawkins & George Stephen

• Stage Manager - Lyn Dennis

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The Man Who Came To Dinner

• Director - Megan Hobbs

Ten Little Indians

In this superlative mystery comedy the "ten little Indians" are statuettes on the mantel of a country house on an island off the coast of Devon.

A nursery rhyme embossed above them tells how each one met his death - until their were none.

Eight guests are invited there by a mysterious host who will be be arriving until the next day. Each guest tries to solve this whodunit.

• Director- Doug Wright

• Producer - Patci Metcalfe

 

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A Christmas Carol

• Director - Carol Graham

 

Harvey

By Mary Chase
(Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc)

• Director - Carol Graham

• Assistant Director - Maureen Grandis

• Producer - Wendy Bratanek

• Stage Manager - Ryan Harold

• Assistant Stage Manager - Ian Monteith

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Fair Lady

Book & Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, Music by Frederick Loewe
(Produced by special arrangement with Tams-Witmark)

• Director - Carol Graham

• Assistant Director - Doug Wright

• Producer - Laurissa Vansickle

• Musical Director - Kunle Oluwojure

• Assistant Musical Director - Will Murray

• Stage Manager - Wendy Bratanek

 

Merchant of Venice

By William Shakespeare

• Director- John Wallace

• Producer - Constance Rawson-Rouse

• Stage Manager - Brendan Spiers

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The Lost Christmas

By Bruce Kimes (Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French Inc.)

• Director - Evelyn Ward de Roo

• Producer - Gwen Trone

• Stage Manager - Ryan Harold

• Assistant Stage Manager - Ian Monteith

Ring Round the Moon

• Director - Danna Andrade

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Community Variety Show

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

• Director - Carol Graham

• Assistant Director - Greg Harold

• Producer - Patci Metcalfe

• Assistant Producer- Connie Rouse

• Stage Managers - Linda Agocs & Sarah Bratanek

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

(translated by Brian Hooker)

 

• Director - George Cooknell

• Producer - Patci Metcalfe

• Assistant Director - Carol Graham

• Stage Manager - Ron Behro

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My Three Angels by Sam & Bella Spewack

• Director - John Wallace

• Assistant Director - Carol Graham

• Producer - Angela Bellemore

• Stage Manager - Sharon Martin

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Story Book Theatre

• Directors:

  • Greg Harold

  • Susan MacKenzie

  • Rich Scarsbrook

  • Randa Theriault

  • Karen Watson

  • Mark Whiting

Arsenic & Old Lace

By Joseph Kesseling
(Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc)
Performed in memory of Steven S. Cadman 1975-1995

A most unusual comedy about the elderly, charming and innocent Brewster sisters who have killed thirteen gentlemen friends and populated their cellar with their remains; the antics of their brother who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt; and the activities of two other brothers, one who is a theatre critic in love and the other a maniac.

• Directors - Paul Gambling and Karen Watson

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A Community Performs

(Sponsored by Fox 99.9 FM)

• Director - Judy Keightley

• Producers - Evelyn Ward de Roo & Sharon Martin

• Stage Manager - Sharon Martin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Little Women

By Marian De Forest, adapted from the story of Louise M. Alcott (produced
By special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.)

The autobiographical story of the Transcendentalist March family of Civil War Concord Massachusetts and their four daughters. We watch as Jo and her sisters travel through the dreams and plays of childhood and the courtships, romances and tragedies of their adulthood, all within the loving circle of their family.

• Director - Danna Andrade

• Producer- Karen Whiting

• Stage Manager - Sharon Martin

 

Season Sponsored by Brown's Graphics & Printing, Petrolia

 

The Haunted High School

By Orville Snapp (produced by special arrangements with Samuel French, Inc.)

A brisk and tingling comedy where the students change places with the teachers one day every year. A baffling mystery as to why the Principal has been run over and characters are found missing. A detective is summoned who after bungling more fiascos happen. The mystery is finally solved in a series of comedic scenes that bring down the house.

• Director - Karen Watson

• Producer - Karen Whiting

• Stage Manager - Les Whiting

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Caesar & Cleopatra

by George Bernard Shaw

In this play, Julius Caesar travels to Egypt and encounters a young and immature Cleopatra. The play tells the story of how Caesar acts as a mentor to Cleopatra, guiding and shaping her into the powerful Queen of Egypt. PCT set this in modern day.

• Director - Paul Gambling

• Producer - Evelyn Ward de Roo

• Stage Manager - Evelyn Ward de Roo

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Toad of Toad Hall

A stage adaptation by Kenneth Grahame of the story of Wind in the Willows by AA Milne. Recounting the adventures of Ratty, Mole, Badger and their pompous friend, Toad.

• Director - John Wallace

• Producer - Sharon Martin

• Stage Manager - Sharon Martin

Victoria Follies

By Karen Whiting and Judy Keightley

A musical romp through the decades featuring Lily Langtree, Flappers, the Andrew Sisters, Elvis, Joan Baez, Disco dancing and Break Dancing.

• Director- Judy Keightley

• Producer - Karen Whiting

• Stage Manager - Karen Watson