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By Ernest Thompson
Directed By Adam Burton
June 21-24, 2007
Engineered Air Theatre at the EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts
"ON GOLDEN POND is a work of rare simplicity and beauty, and in Thompson our theatre has found a fresh new voice."
NY Daily News
"...a rare and memorable theatrical experience."
Variety
"What courage it must have taken for Mr. Thompson in the 1970s to write a play with so much affection in it!"
The New Yorker
THE STORY: This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-fourth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory-but still as tart-tongued, observant and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiancé, who then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the "grandchild" the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness-and slang-in return. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.
China Doll
By Marjorie Chan
Directed By Michelle Wong
May 3rd, 2008 at 7pm
Engineered Air Theatre at the EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts
Tickets available through Ticketmaster: www.ticketmaster.ca
China Doll was nominated for a Governor General's Literacy Award and several Dora Mavor Moore Awards, including Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Production.
THE STORY: China Doll is the story of Su-Ling, a rebellious young women in Shanghai at the turn of the 20th century. Raised by her grandmother, Poa Poa, Su-Ling's tiny and exquisitely bound feet mark her only real worth as a bride and as a woman. Her destiny seems clear until she meets the enigmatic Merchant Li who runs a fabric store and is trying to escape his past. He secretly teaches the young Su-Ling to read and she is awakened to a world where her personal struggle is mirrored by an imperialist country on the brink of change.
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