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We've got three great shows lined up for you in our 2020-21 season!
We are starting off with Flaming Idiots, a contemporary farce riding on the antics of its hapless characters. This show was postponed from our 1919-20 season. Long-time SOAP actor, behind the scenes worker and board member, Diane Gludovatz, is stepping up to make her directing debut for this production. Nathan Linders returns to direct our winter show, The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon. This great rural comedy was written by Canadian writer, W.O Mitchell, and appropriately enough, is centred on the great Canadian pastime of curling, but with a devilish twist. Rounding out our season will be When the Wind Blows, a comedic drama and satire about preparation for and the aftermath of a nuclear strike in rural England. When the Wind Blows will be directed by Ritchie Kendrick, who is directing his first show since rejoining SOAP in 2018 following a long sabbatical.
We are starting off with Flaming Idiots, a contemporary farce riding on the antics of its hapless characters. This show was postponed from our 1919-20 season. Long-time SOAP actor, behind the scenes worker and board member, Diane Gludovatz, is stepping up to make her directing debut for this production. Nathan Linders returns to direct our winter show, The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon. This great rural comedy was written by Canadian writer, W.O Mitchell, and appropriately enough, is centred on the great Canadian pastime of curling, but with a devilish twist. Rounding out our season will be When the Wind Blows, a comedic drama and satire about preparation for and the aftermath of a nuclear strike in rural England. When the Wind Blows will be directed by Ritchie Kendrick, who is directing his first show since rejoining SOAP in 2018 following a long sabbatical.
Directed by Diane Gludovatz
This is the story of two ladies with a dream. Carla and Phyllis decide that the ladder to success at the post office is missing a few rungs. They know that big money is waiting for people with entrepreneurial spirit and sound business judgement. They have lots of the spirit but little of the judgement, and their new gourmet health food restaurant flounders.
Zippy's, a popular crosstown spot, has been crowded ever since a notorious mobster was shot there over twenty years ago. What if someone could get murdered in their restaurant? Of course, complications ensue through a series of very unlikely events. |
Directed by Nathan Linders
When Wullie MacCrimmon, a shoemaker in the 1930s foothills town of Wild Rose, Alberta, muses aloud that he would give anything to skip his curling team in the MacDonald Brier, the Devil (a travelling salesman who deals in wholesale souls and retail sin) suddenly appears and makes him an offer that is too good to ignore.
Wullie makes a counter-offer, more of a wager, really, and one of the greatest matches in curling history is on – a Black Bonspiel. When the Devil appears with his curling team – Guy Fawkes (lead), Judas Iscariot (second), and Macbeth (third) – Wullie and his team are in for one hell of a match. |
Directed by Ritchie Kendrick
Retired couple, Jim and Hilda Bloggs, have moved to an isolated country cottage in the South East of England. They are decent, houseproud and hopelessly behind the times. Jim hears on the radio that a pre-emptive strike is to be expected. With his government leaflets as his guide, he builds a refuge and gathers emergency rations.
Jim and Hilda emerge after the Bomb to find a devastated, post-nuclear world. Expecting the Powers-That-Be to rescue them, they wait, but eventually drift gently into the darkness, loving each other and uttering fragments of prayer. This tale is clever, humourous, credible, and ultimately heart-breaking. |