November 16 – December 9
Preview: November 15 ($6.00) Opening: November 16
Talkback: November 22

A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN by Eugene O’Neill
Director: Jack Paterson
Written by America’s greatest modern playwright, Eugene O’Neill, “Moon for the Misbegotten” is a beautiful comic drama about two lost souls and their chance encounter under the full moon. A story of love, forgiveness, and hope this is considered O’Neill’s most honest, immediate and lyrical play.

2008
January 25 – February 17
Preview: January 24 ($6.00) Opening: January 25
Talkback: January 31

JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte, adapted by Polly Teale
Director: Tom Kerr
This adaptation by Polly Teale based on the novel by Charlotte Bronte is groundbreaking. Jane Eyre, the plain young woman, so morally honest and pure, falls passionately in love with Mr. Rochester. This masterpiece from 1847 remains a modern blend of true love and suspense. Teale’s stunning style brings this well-loved novel to deeply moving life on the stage.

April 4 – April 27
Preview: April 3 ($6.00) Opening: April 4
Talkback: April 10

VOLPONE by Ben Jonson
Director: John Murphy
Ben Jonson, an extraordinary playwright and poet from some 400 years ago, attained literary status that rivaled Shakespeare at the time. Volpone is one of his major works. This play whose characters remain recognizable to this day exposes the pomposity of the legal system and the hypocrisy of wealthy lawyers who are prepared to argue anything for a price.

June 6 – June 29
Preview: June 5 ($6.00) Opening: June 6
Talkback: June 12

YOU NEVER CAN TELL by George Bernard Shaw
Director: Bernard Cuffling
George Bernard Shaw’s witty comic play dealing with the long arm of coincidence is loads of FUN!!  Issues such as feminism and gunneries are addressed but not taken all that seriously. The characters from the Clamptons and the fatherless Clandon clan, which includes two endearing brats, to the local dentist, intermingle in hilarious events.  

September 5 to September 28, 2008
Preview: September 4 ($6.00) Opening: September 5
Talkback: September 11

CORAM BOY – Vancouver Premiere
by Jamila Gavin, adapted by Helen Edmundson
Dramatised from Jamila Gavin’s Whitbread Award-winning novel set in 18^th century England, Coram Boy is a tale of two cities, Gloucester and London and a tale of two orphans at the Coram Hospital for Foundling Children. Toby was saved from an African slave ship and Aaron is the abandoned son of the heir to a great estate. It is also the story of fathers and sons: slave-trader Otis and his son Meshak, and Sir William Ashbrook and the son he disinherits. Dastardly villains, cold-hearted aristocrats, devoted friends and passionate lovers all play a role in this rich, almost gothic, drama.

November 14 – December 7, 2008
Preview: November 13 ($6.00) Opening: November 12
Talkback: November 20

THE CIRCLE
by Somerset Maugham
The Circle gives an ironic twist to the conflict between romance and responsibility as represented by two generations of the same wealthy family. Arnold Champion-Cheney has never forgotten, or ceased to resent, his mother’s elopement thirty years ago with Lord Porteous. Cheney is an ambitious politician with a beautiful young wife in whom he has proprietary pride. Home from their long exile come his mother Lady Kitty and her lover. With Arnold’s father living nearby, the visit promises to be fraught with embarrassment but instead becomes extremely amusing. What Lady Kitty at once notices is that history is repeating itself! 

January 23 to February 15, 2009
Preview: January 22 ($6.00) Opening January 23
Talkback: January 29

THERE CAME A GYPSY RIDING – Vancouver Premiere
by Frank McGuinness
The McKenna family gathers at their remote holiday home in the west of Ireland to mark the twenty-first birthday of their late son Gene. Cousin Bridget appears along the causeway, inviting herself for birthday cake and conversation, ready to expose a family secret. Even the powerful personalities of Gene’s parents can’t hold things together in the face of an unexpected visit from the past. There Came a Gypsy Riding premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in January 2007.

April 3 to April 26, 2009
Preview: April 2 ($6.00) Opening April 3
Talkback: April 9

THE INVENTION OF LOVE
by Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard’s play delivers a powerful, intricate meditation on life, scholarship and the after-life in this brilliant play which has writer A.E. Houseman (A Shropshire Lad) adrift on the River Styx, where he meets his younger Oxford University self, and reflects on a life lived in the shadow of Oscar Wilde. The often erudite dialogue dazzles with wit and humour.

June 5 to June 28, 2009
Preview: June 4 ($6.00) Opening June 5
Talkback: June 11

THE SOLDIERS' FORTUNE
by Thomas Otway
It is 1680 Beaugard and Courtine return to London from wars abroad – empty handed and disenchanted.  Beaugard hits on a brilliant scheme to improve their fortunes, involving Clarinda.  Clarinda, she for her part, unhappily married to the aged, infatuated Sir Davy Dunce, concocts a plan to reverse her fortunes.  Sir Jolly Jumble, one of the great portraits of wayward sexuality, sets about helping the lovers, thereby enhancing his own fortunes.  This classic Restoration comedy by Thomas Otway is brutally, hilariously modern.