London Community Players
Palace Theatre
710 Dundas St.
London, On
519-432-1029
UPCOMING SEASON
DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
By Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
In this transcendently powerful new adaption by Wendy Kesselman, Anne Frank emerges from history a living, lyrical, intensely gifted young girl, who confronts her rapidly changing life and the increasing horror of her time with astonishing honesty, wit, and determination. An impassioned drama about the lives of eight people hiding from the Nazis in a concealed storage attic, the diary of Anne Frank captures the claustrophobic realities of their daily existence – their fear, their hope, their laughter, their grief. Each day of these two dark years, Anne’s voice shines through. This is a new adaptation for a new generation. Directed by Don Fleckser
November 11th, 12th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19ths
TREASURE ISLAND
Based on the masterful adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island is a stunning yarn of piracy on the tropical seas. It begins at an inn on the Devon coast of England in 1775 and quickly becomes an unforgettable tale of treachery and mayhem featuring a host of legendary swashbucklers including the dangerous Billy Bones (played unforgettably in the movies by Lionel Barrymore), the sinister two-timing Israel Hands, the brassy woman pirate Anne Bonney, and the hideous form of evil incarnate, Blind Pew. At the center of it all are Jim Hawkins, a 14-year-old boy who longs for adventure, and the infamous Long John Silver, who is a complex study of good and evil, perhaps the most famous hero-villain of all time. Silver is an unscrupulous buccaneer-rogue whose greedy quest for gold, coupled with his affection for Jim, cannot help but win the heart of every soul who has ever longed for romance, treasure and adventure. The play had its world premiere in May 2007 at the Alley Theatre in a production directed by Gregory Boyd and designed by Eugene Lee and Constance Hoffman.
February 3rd, 4th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11ths
February 5th Matinee
School Matinees TBD
BINGO
A group of guys, friends since high school, have a unique way of celebrating their friendship -- a drinking game called BINGO. Nurk, Dookie, Heff, Boots and Bitsy gather in a motel room the night before their 30th High School Reunion. Hilarity and hijinks ensue, tears and beers flow, and is that love in the air or just the familiar scent of the harbour? "Bingo!" asks the question "They say you can't go home again but what if you never left?" A Cape Breton comedy and then some. A new work-in-progress by one of Canada's premier playwrights Daniel MacIvor - be the first audience in Ontario to see it before its Toronto run. Directed by Don Fleckser
March, 8th, 9th, 10th, 2012
ENCHANTED APRIL
Elizabeth von Arnim's novel tells the story of four dissimilar women in 1920s England who leave their damp and rainy environs to go on a holiday to a secluded coastal castle in Italy. Mrs Arbuthnot and Mrs Wilkins, who belong to the same ladies' club but have never spoken, become acquainted after reading an advertisement for villas for rent in a newspaper. They find some common ground in that both are struggling to make the best of unhappy marriages. Having decided to seek other ladies to help share expenses, they reluctantly take on the waspish, elderly Mrs Fisher and the stunning, but aloof, Lady Caroline Dester. The four women come together at the castle and find rejuvenation in the tranquil beauty of their surroundings, rediscovering hope and love.
May 11th, 12th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th
Sunday May 13th, matinee
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
Starring Don Fleckser as Abby and Bill Meaden as Martha.
A drama critic learns on his engagement day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.
June 8th, 9th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th,
Sunday June 10th, matinee
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