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This season, Lost & Found Theatre is proud to present two world-premieres: Charles Dickens Writes A Christmas Carol by Richard Quesnel and Pocket Rocket by Gary Kirkham and Lea Daniel. The season will begin with a special Kitchener Public Library co-production and Ontario premiere of: The Young Ladies of Baddeck Club by Christy Ziss and Hannah Ziss. Lost & Found Theatre is excited to be producing a new version of King Lear as a staged reading featuring professional and community actors as part of its education-based Genesius Project initiative. The Genesius Project will also include a spring show: Our Town by Thornton Wilder.
“It’s really exciting – Lost & Found has never had a season like this before,” says Hannah Ziss, Lost & Found ensemble member. “We’re producing our biggest show yet, bringing new stories to the region and pursuing never- before-done theatre initiatives. It’s all part of our mandate to tell stories that both entertain and innovate. We give you something to talk about!”
Kitchener Public Library and Lost & Found Theatre remount Fascinating Women event with new Nova Scotia comedy
THE YOUNG LADIES OF BADDECK CLUB | by Christy Ziss and Hannah Ziss October 5, 7pm | Kitchener Public Library, Central Library, 85 Queen St N Pay-What-You-Can OR $15 in advance at lostandfoundtheatre.ca
“We have five weeks, how hard could it be?”
These are famous last words from Marguerite McLeod, a character in The Young Ladies of Baddeck Club, who wants to put on a play to celebrate the incorporation of the village of Baddeck on Cape Breton Island. From this point on in this new Nova Scotia comedy, Marguerite, her contentious daughter Isabel, and two young girls who wouldn’t know a soliloquy from a spinnaker learn, hilariously, just how hard this task can be.
The play centres on the mother-daughter relationship, and was, in fact, written by a mother-daughter team. Christy Ziss and Hannah Ziss co-wrote and co-starred in the world-premiere of this play, which was produced by Theatre Baddeck (theatrebaddeck.com) this summer.
“We were gratified by an amazing response to the show from our world-premiere audience this summer,” says Christy Ziss. “When it came time to select material for our Fascinating Women event – the play seemed perfect. Part of our thinking when writing it was: we want to produce something that would employ amazing female talent and tell
Ted Follows to play title character in staged reading of King Lear
KING LEAR | by William Shakespeare; adaptation by Scott Emerson Moyle October 22, 23, 8pm | Theatre of the Arts (Modern Languages Building, University of Waterloo) Adults: $20; Students: $15; Groups (15 or more): $16; limited $5 EyeGos available Tickets on sale now: lostandfoundtheatre.ca
King Lear will be the first production under L&F’s new Genesius Project. The project is a community building theatre initiative that rallies community and professional actors under a shared passion for theatre and storytelling. Alan K. Sapp, L&F’s education director, describes it as: “synthesizing the talents of professional, community theatre and student actors.”
Notable Canadian actor Ted Follows will play the title role. Follows was a founding member of Everyman Theatre and Neptune Theatre. He has performed with major theatre companies across Canada including: the Stratford Festival, Theatre New Brunswick, Theatre Aquarius, and the Vancouver Playhouse. His daughter, Megan, is a renowned actor in Toronto and Los Angeles having started her career in CBC’s Anne of Green Gables.
“I cannot imagine an actor more suited to play Lear than Ted Follows, and it's about time he had a chance,” says Sapp. George Joyce, who appeared in last season’s Boiler Room Suite, will play Gloucester. Community and student actors will round out the cast. Scott Emerson Moyle, artistic director of Toronto’s Dauntless Theatre, has edited this Shakespearean classic down to a two-hour run time. It is for all these reasons that Sapp feels this is a must-see event:
“Perhaps that phrase is over-used, but in this case, in terms of local theatre, it definitely applies.”
Lost & Found Theatre’s biggest show yet: an adaptation of the beloved Christmas tale of redemption
CHARLES DICKENS WRITES A CHRISTMAS CAROL | by Richard Quesnel December 2-12 | Conrad Centre for the Performing Arts
Tickets $18-$29; on sale now: lostandfoundtheatre.ca
Charles Dickens Writes A Christmas Carol has been a holiday favourite in the region as a staged reading for many years. Lost & Found Theatre is therefore delighted to be fully producing its professional world-premiere this Christmas.
In this adaptation of A Christmas Carol, we witness the struggles and obstacles faced by Charles Dickens in his writing of the classic novel. Using only the power of his imagination, and the inspiration gleaned from a small choir of wandering carollers, we watch not only the story of the book unfold but find out why a Christmas Ghost-story was written in the first place.
Fourth Line Theatre Managing Artistic Director Kim Blackwell to direct world-premiere of nostalgic Canadian hockey comedy
POCKET ROCKET | by Gary Kirkham & Lea Daniel
April 20-30 | Registry Theatre
Street hockey buddies, three boys and a girl, gather for a game. It's the Centennial, the last year of the NHL’s original six and the “summer of love.” Things change when a new kid, an immigrant from Pakistan, moves into the neighbourhood. The play follows the five friends over a thirty-year period against the backdrop of a changing country. It is a quintessentially Canadian journey through evolving identities, persistent friendships, and a boundless love of the game.
Pocket Rocket was performed as a staged reading in May 2015 under the direction of Kim Blackwell. Lost & Found Theatre is delighted to have her direct its world premiere this spring.
EARLY BIRD PACKAGE: Purchase tickets for both main stage season plays for $50 Details: lostandfoundtheatre.ca
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