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FESTIVAL PLAYERS OF PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY is happy to announce new developments for their eighth season of professional live theatre including programming for the new Sunday Series @ Huff Estates and the return of the Young Company and Festival Players for Families. Flex Passes and single tickets are on sale now at www.festivalplayers.ca.
Festival Players will team up with Huff Estates Inn and Winery for the Sunday Series @ Huff Estates, a new weekly showcase on Sundays from July 13 – August 24, 2014. Sunday Series @ Huff Estates will feature exciting one-night-only performances including: Sam S. Mullins' solo show Weaksauce, a coming-of-age comedy of first times, second chances and third wheels; an evening of improv with National Theatre of the World, Canada's finest comic minds; John Millard’s Polka Dogs who create unique tunes with a tuba, trombone, accordion, banjo and drum kit; Parsons & Morel Make Magic, the award-winning husband and wife comedy team; a bilingual cabaret show DU COQ À L’ÂME Or Tales of Everyday Life… with chanteuse Nathalie Nadon, and Michael Barber on piano; and an autobiographical music-storytelling show by multi-instrumentalist George Meanwell.
After a successful inaugural year, the Young Company, an immersive professional theatre experience for six youth from Prince Edward County, returns again this summer. The Young Company members will spend three weeks working with acclaimed theatre performer, director and teacher Eliza-Jane Scott to create and rehearse a theatre production for children and their grown-ups under the banner of Festival Players for Families. This summer’s Festival Players for Families show will be All for Beaver Hats! by David S. Craig, hilariously telling three hundred years of Canadian history in forty-five minutes. All for Beaver Hats! will tour throughout Prince Edward County in August with stops at Fifth Town Artisan Cheese Co. in Cressy, Ameliasburgh Historical Museum, Campbell’s Orchards in Rednersville, Sandbanks Summer Village in Cherry Valley and in Bloomfield as part of Live in Bloomfield – A Festival of Theatre and Other Delights.
Previously announced for Festival Players is Radio :30 July 22 - August 3, 2014 at Mount Tabor Playhouse in Milford, Ontario. Directed by Shari Hollett, Radio :30 is a multi-award-winning dark comedy about a radio actor who comes unglued in the recording studio. Playwright Chris Earle (Second City alumnus) will star as discouraged radio personality Ron, and Sam Earle (Degrassi: The Next Generation, and the son of both the playwright and director) will play Mike, the faithful recording engineer.
Test Drive will close the 2014 Festival Players season under the Grand Tent at Rosehall Run Vineyards in Wellington, Ontario August 5 – 24, 2014. Artistic Director Sarah Phillips takes the wheel for Test Drive, the life and times of a car man. Earl loves his wife, children and cars – and not always in that order. He also considers his life to be resoundingly ordinary, except that every ten years or so he sets out on a test drive that rocks his world.
Single tickets, Subscription Passes, and hotel and dining packages, are now available online at www.festivalplayers.ca.
FESTIVAL PLAYERS OF PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY is a professional summer theatre company led by Artistic Director Sarah Phillips. For eight years, Festival Players has brought the beautiful landscapes, towns and villages of Prince Edward County, affectionately called The County, to life through the incredible power of theatre. Whether in a charming church theatre or nestled in the vineyards, Festival Players audiences are treated to an unforgettable theatre experience each and every summer.
FESTIVAL PLAYERS
Of PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY
2014 SEASON
SUNDAY SERIES @ HUFF ESTATES
July 13 – August 24, 2014
7pm
Huff Estates Inn and Winery
2274 County 1 Road, Hallowell, Ontario
Schedule: www.festivalplayers.ca/the-sunday-series
RADIO :30
July 22 - August 3, 2014
Mount Tabor Playhouse
2179 County Road 17, Milford, Ontario
Performances Tuesday - Saturday at 8pm, plus Friday matinees at 2pm
FESTIVAL PLAYERS FOR FAMILIES: All for Beaver Hats!
August 1-3, 2014
Fifth Town Artisan Cheese Co.
4309 County Road 8, Cressy, Ontario
August 8-10
Part of Live in Bloomfield – A Festival of Theatre and Other Delights
Venue TBA, Bloomfield Ontario
August 15 – 17
Campbell’s Orchards
1633 County Road 3, Rednersville, Ontario
August 22-24, 2014
Ameliasburgh Historical Museum
517 County Road 19, Ameliasburgh, Ontario
Sandbanks Summer Village dates to be confirmed.
TEST DRIVE
August 5 – 24, 2014
Rosehall Run Vineyards
1243 Greer Road, Wellington, Ontario
Performances Tuesday - Sunday at 6:30pm, plus Friday matinees at 1:30pm
Tickets are $29.90 + HST (Senior, Youth and Group Discounts Available)
First Friday Matinees are Pay-What-You-Can
Three Ticket Flex Pass Subscriptions are $80.75 + HST (10% savings)
Eight Ticket Season Pass Subscriptions are $203.00 + HST (15% savings)
Tickets for Festival Players for Families are $10 + HST or 4 for $36.00 + HST
Tickets and passes available online at www.festivalplayers.ca
or by phone at 613.476.1991 / 1.866.584.1991
In-Person Box Office opens in June 2014
2014-05-06
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