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The Wild Guys
​by Andrew Wreggitt & Rebecca Shaw​
directed by Ted Osborne
Run Dates October 2012

What's the story?

The Wild Guys is a Canadian comedy about four very different middle-aged men who end up on weekend getaway together in the bush. Their reasons for being there may differ, but as the weekend progresses, walls get broken down and communication begins to flow, we discover that their needs aren’t so different after all. 

When they off to find an isolated cabin in the forest on a “wildman” weekend, a la Robert Bly, everything that can go wrong does! Andy, a men’s movement advocate, and Robin, a crystal-gazing New Ager, coax Stewart, an unsuspecting grocer, and Randall, a skeptical, city lawyer, into reluctantly participating in male-bonding ceremonies and communal hugs. The result? Hockey cheers and Neil Young singalongs! This play is a satire on men’s self-help encounters of the type made famous by drum-beating poet Robert Bly and the new-age, touchy-feely movement that supported it.

Cast and Characters

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STEWART:
​Patrick Turner

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​RANDALL:
David Badger

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​ROBIN:
​Craig Bjornson

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ANDY:
Tom Szalay


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The Playwrights

​Andrew Wreggitt is the award-winning writer of 16 movies for television including The Phantoms, The Jack Layton Story, Mayer Thorpe, Survival Code, Sticks and Stones, The Don Cherry Story, One Dead Indian, Shades of Black and Corner Gas - The Movie. He has won three Canadian Screen/Gemini awards for best writing and been nominated on four other occasions. He’s won six Alberta Motion Picture Industry awards for writing and three Writers Guild of Canada Awards


Wreggitt and his wife, Rebecca Shaw, have been writing plays together since 1991, when they wrote Ms. Lone Pine for Lunchbox Theatre in Calgary, Alberta. They wrote The Wild Guys in 1992.

Behind the Scenes

​Producer: Jennifer Mapplebeck
Director: Ted Osborne
Stage Manager: Jen Jensen
Set Design: Ted Osborne
Construction: Grant Bott, Brian Mapplebeck
Costumes: Bernice Myllyniemi
Makeup: Teri Rose, Carole Osborne
Lights: Diane Gludovatz
Sound: Penelope Johnson
Lead Hand: Christine Rothwell

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    • 2020 - Present >
      • Knickers
      • When the Wind Blows
      • Flaming Idiots
      • Born Yesterday
    • 2015 - 2019 >
      • Bob's Your Elf
      • Lawrence & Holloman
      • Beyond Therapy
      • It's a Wonderful Life
      • Outside Mullingar
      • Old Love
      • The Game's Afoot
      • Since You Left Us
      • Don't Dress for Dinner
      • Boeing Boeing
      • Sleeping Indoors
      • Noises Off
      • Melville Boys
    • 2010 - 2014 >
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      • Lend Me a Tenor
      • Twisted Tales
      • Love, Loss and What I Wore
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      • Wild Guys
      • Odd Couple
      • Rumors
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