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2013 - 2014
Talk-back sessions after the show
on the Thursday, second week of the run
NEW!
TWO Matinées at 2pm
on the second and last Sundays of the run
(no evening performance)
All performances Thur - Sun at 8pm unless otherwise noted
and take place at Jericho Arts Centre, 1675 Discovery Street
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2013
September 6 to September 29
Preview: Sep 5 ($10.00) Opening: Sep 6
Talkback: Sep 12
Matinées: Sep 15 & Sep 29 at 2pm (no evening performance)
Canadian Première
The Habit of Art
by Alan Bennett
directed by William B. Davis
Alan Bennett’s new play is as much about the theatre as it is about poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. It reflects on growing old, on creativity and inspiration, and on persisting when all passion’s spent: ultimately, on the habit of art. Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend W.H. Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first for nearly twenty years, they are observed and interrupted by amongst others their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station.
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November 8 to December 01
Preview: Nov 7 ($10.00) Opening: Nov 8
Talkback: Nov 14
Matinées: Nov 17 & Dec 01 at 2pm (no evening performance)
Canadian Première
Closure
by Ron Blicq
directed by Bernard Cuffling
Donald Barlow, who lives in Nottingham, England, decides to search for his father who was a visiting Canadian serviceman during World War II. Donald engages a search agency to find his father. But when the agency does find him the elderly man vehemently denies his involvement with Donald’s mother and refuses to meet the man who claims to be his son. This play has a solid and engaging narrative. How closure is finally achieved makes this a gripping drama of four generations and how the youngest can bring out the best in the oldest.
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2014
January 24 to February 16
Preview: Jan 23 ($10.00) Opening: Jan 24
Talkback: Jan 30
Matinées: Feb 2 & Feb 16 at 2pm (no evening performance)
The Pitmen Painters
by Lee Hall
directed by Jack Paterson
In 1934, a group of Ashington miners and a dental mechanic hired a professor from Newcastle University to teach an Art Appreciation evening class. Unable to understand each other, they embarked on one of the most unusual experiments in British art as the pitmen learned to become painters. Within a few years the most avant-garde artists became their friends, their work was taken for prestigious collections and they were celebrated throughout the British art world; but every day they worked, as before, down the mine. A true story made into a heartwarming play. |
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March 28 to April 20
Preview: Mar 27 ($10.00) Opening: Mar 28
Talkback: Apr 3
Matinées: Apr 6 & Apr 20 at 2pm (no evening performance)
The Old Curiosity Shop
by Charles Dickens
adaptation by Simon Web
directed by Sarah Rodgers
Nell Trent, a child-orphan of thirteen, must take care of her ailing grandfather. Dragged into debt by his dissolute grandson, he has turned, as a last resort, to the trollish loan shark, Daniel Quilp - one of Dicken's most engagingly wicked and enduring characters. Despite being married, he has lecherous designs on several women, including Nell, and quickly takes charge of her grandfather's property - The Old Curiosity Shop itself. They are pursued by friend and foe - by Quilp and the dissolute grandson, after the fortune they believe the grandfather has secreted away; Dick Swiveller, the big-hearted loafer who becomes a rescuing hero; the irrepressible Kit Nubbles, hopelessly devoted to Nell; the mysterious Single Gentleman, who will restore the family fortunes. The Old Curiosity Shop is one of the biggest selling books of all time. Stuffed to capacity with danger, hope, laughter, tears and a deep faith in people's fundamental goodness, The Old Curiosity Shop is a Victorian Odyssey, a powerful affirmation of the power of love.
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June 6 to June 29
Preview: Jun 5 ($10.00) Opening: Jun 6
Talkback: Jun 12
Matinées: Jun 15 & Jun 29 at 2pm (no evening performance)
The Marriage of Figaro
by Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais
translation and adaptation by Bernard Sahlins
directed by Adam Henderson
Sexual fun is at the heart of this comic masterpiece, which continues the jolly tale of the barber of Seville. The plot is elaborate and absurdly complex. It begins with The Count insisting on his right to sleep with his servant’s bride. But Figaro is a clever common man who uses his wits to overcome the aristocrats who press him down. The plot is pure romance. The true lovers must leap over obstacles planted by powerful enemies. Through a wild bouffe of disguises, hiding in chairs, bouncing on beds, mistaking identity, and inverting gender, Figaro’s wit and sparkling good humour are ultimately triumphant. The Marriage of Figaro by Beaumarchais was completed in 1782 but had to wait two years before its first performance at the Comédie Française. Louis XVI, said "For this play not to be a danger, first the Bastille would have to be torn down. It is this play that started the French Revolution!
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All performances take place at the Jericho Arts Centre, 1675 Discovery, Thursdays to
Sundays at 8pm. Last Sunday of run 2 pm matinee only. For ticket information and reservations go to www.unitedplayers.com , or phone 604-224-8007 extension 2.
Twitter: @unitedplayers.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com /pages/United-Players/260494470634088.
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