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The Wild Guys
by Andrew Wreggitt & Rebecca Shaw |
directed by Ted Osborne
Run Dates October 2012 |
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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
STEWART: Patrick Turner 
RANDALL: David Badger 
ROBIN: Craig Bjornson 
ANDY: Tom Szalay |
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 |