2008 - 2009 Season - the return of Six Productions, including a Festival!
Play One
Children of a Lesser God -
By Mark Medoff
RUN DATES: October 8-18,2008
Enter the world of the deaf. The moving story of a sensitive and caring teacher at a school for the deaf who falls in love with an ex-student. Their struggles to change each other and ultimately to accept each others worlds. This Tony Award-winning play will open a whole new world of understanding for the hearing audience and says volumes about communication in any language.
Play Two
Black Hearts in the Green Room
by Scott Sharplin
RUN DATES: December 10 - 20, 2008
AUDITIONS: September 14 & 15, 2008
A beloved and celebrated tradition returns! After a ten year absence, the Walterdale Melodrama is back... and it's not the only thing rising from the grave! Walterdale's legendary ghosts take centre stage in this thrilling and uproarious tale of a hapless community theatre beset by spectres. Stirring up the supernatural shenanigans are hapless heroes, vile villains, and more ham and cheese than a sandwich factory.
Black Hearts in the Green Room is a world premiere, written especially for Walterdale's 50th Anniversary Season.
Play Three
The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke
by William Shakespeare
RUN DATES: February 18 - 28, 2009
AUDITIONS: October 12 & 13, 2008
Would you choose to suffer silently in the face of injustice, or risk everything for what you believe is right? Would you seek revenge, trade death for life, justice for love?
One of the most famous pieces of English theatre comes to life on Walterdale's stage - Shakespeare's tragic tale of revenge, Hamlet.
Play Four
Deathtrap
by Ira levin
RUN DATES: April 1-11, 2009
AUDITIONS: December 14 & 15, 2008
"... a man in boots attacks you!" warns psychic Helga Ten Dorp. But recently flop-ridden playwright of Broadway thrillers, Sidney Bruhl, will stop at nothing to "stage" his comeback when an aspiring young writer presents him with a sure-fire, can't-miss thriller of his own.
From the pen of Ira Levin, author of Rosemary's Baby, The Boys from Brazil and Sliver, DEATHTRAP is one of the biggest hits of Broadway. Complete with the obligatory thunderstorm-filled, gasp-inducing ending, DEATHRAP is two-thirds thriller and one-third devilishly clever comedy.
Come and scream a little. It's good for you!
Play Five
Footlight Festival
RUN DATES: May 27 - June 6, 2009
AUDITIONS: February 22 & 23, 2009
Become a part of the living history that is Walterdale as we celebrate the past, present and future with a variety of short plays, workshops, play readings and round table discussions.
This is your opportunity to be involved in Walterdale's Fiftieth Season with numerous opportunities to be onstage, backstage and in the audience, mingling with alumni and new members alike.
Contact TIX on the Square for Festival Passes and special pricing.
Play Six
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
By Clark Gesner & Andrew Lippa
RUN DATES: July 8 - 18, 2009
AUDITIONS: April 5 & 6, 2009
Kites. Baseball. Little redheaded girls. Sources of such pleasure and frustration.
Lifted from the pages of Charles M. Schultz' world-renowned comic strip, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown has all your favourite Peanuts© characters dealing with the wild optimism and utter despair of Valentine's Day, lunchtime, essays and the Red Baron.
Enjoy a family friendly musical with Charlie, Sally, Lucy, Linus, Schroeder and Snoopy.
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