Today The Gladstone Theatre announces an 8-show resident company season presented by Plosive Productions, Bear & Co., SevenThirty Productions, Theatre Kraken, Three Sisters, and Black Sheep Theatre:

• The Ugly One

by Marius von Mayenburg
directed by Peter James Haworth

September 26 – October 5 at 7:30pm
Matinees September 28, 29 & October 5 at 2:30pm
and October 2 at 12:30pm

Preview Performance on September 25

“Your face is unacceptable.” Lette thought he was normal. When the extent of his ugliness is revealed he turns to a plastic surgeon for help. But after the bandages come off, Lette soon learns that there is such a thing as too beautiful.

The Ugly One is a scalpel-sharp comedy on beauty, identity and getting ahead in life.

Adult: $36 + $4 facility fee = $40
Senior (65+): $32 + $4 facility fee = $36
Student/Artist*/Unwaged: $20 + $4 facility fee = $24
*including Theatre Ontario members

Presented By: Plosive Productions

• Lightfoot in Song

October 24 – November 2 at 7:30pm
Matinees October 27 & November 2 at 2:30pm
and October 30 at 11:30am

Preview Performance on October 23

Troubadour of our landscape and our history, masterful storyteller, Gordon Lightfoot creates a national songscape.

The same team that brought you tributes to Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell is back to celebrate another Canadian icon.

Bear & Co. unites its heady cocktail of voices and instrumentation with your favourite Lightfoot for an evening of nostalgia and surprise.

We don’t know how it could be anything but . . . Beautiful.

Lightfoot’s “songs . . . have been embedded in the North American listening consciousness for the past half-century and counting.”
—Mike Mettler
“Once you hear his songs, you never forget him.”
—Maxine Nelson
“Every time I hear a song of his, it’s like I wish it would last forever.”
—Bob Dylan

Adult: $36 + $4 facility fee = $40
Senior (65+): $32 + $4 facility fee = $36
Student/Artist*/Unwaged: $20 + $4 facility fee = $24
*including Theatre Ontario members

Presented By: Bear & Co.

• Oleanna

November 5 – 16 at 7:30pm
Matinees November 9, 10 & 16 at 2:30pm
and November 13 at 12:30pm

Preview Performances November 5 & 6

A professor’s office in a university. He has failed an adult female student. She wants him to change her grade. He offers to do so… under certain conditions. Which of them is truthful? Which of them is lying? He says…. She says… Is he an honest man trying hard to help a failure? Or is he a serial sexual abuser?

Adult: $36 + $4 facility fee = $40
Senior (65+): $32 + $4 facility fee = $36
Student/Artist*/Unwaged: $20 + $4 facility fee = $24
*including Theatre Ontario members

Presented By: SevenThirty Productions

• The Wolves

by Sarah Delappe
Directed by Krista Marchand

January 30 – Feb 8 at 7:30pm
Matinees February 1 & 8 at 2:30pm
and February 5 at 12:30pm

Preview Performance on Jan 29

Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. The Wolves follows nine teenage girls as they warm up for their indoor soccer games. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigour of a pack of adolescent warriors. As the teammates warm up in sync, a symphony of overlapping dialogue spills out their concerns. By season’s and play’s end, amidst the wins and losses, rivalries and tragedies, they are tested and ready — they are The Wolves.

Adult: $36 + $4 facility fee = $40
Senior (65+): $32 + $3 facility fee = $36
Student/Artist*/Unwaged: $20 + $3 facility fee = $24
*including Theatre Ontario members

Presented By: Theatre Kraken

• Dancing at Lughnasa

By Brian Friel
Directed by John P. Kelly

March 12 – 21 at 7:30pm
Matinees March 14, 15 & 21 at 2:30pm
and March 18 at 12:30pm

Preview Performance on Mar 11

It is 1936, and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters. In this extraordinary play, we meet these correct Catholic women at the time of the festival of Lughnasa, which celebrates the pagan god of the harvest with drunken revelry and dancing. The man of the house – seven year old Michael – finally meets his elderly uncle, a priest, returning after serving for twenty-five years as a missionary in a Ugandan leper colony, and watches as music from the radio transforms his mother and aunts into shrieking, stomping banshees in their own kitchen. And in the same two days, who should turn up but Michael’s father, a charming Welsh drifter who strolls up the lane and sweeps his mother away in an elegant dance across the fields.

“…this play does exactly what theater was born to do, carrying both its characters and audience aloft on those waves of distant music and ecstatic release that, in defiance of all language and logic, let us dance and dream just before night must fall.”
—NY Times.

Winner of the 1992 Tony Award for Best Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Broadway Play and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, Dancing at Lughnasa is widely regarded as Brian Friel’s masterpiece.

Adult: $36 + $4 facility fee = $40
Senior (65+): $32 + $4 facility fee = $36
Student/Artist*/Unwaged: $20 + $4 facility fee = $24
*including Theatre Ontario members

Co-Presented by Three Sisters Theatre Company and SevenThirty Productions

• …And The Wardrobe

By Jayson McDonald

April 15 – 25 at 7:30pm
Matinees April 18, 19, 25 at 2:30pm
and April 22 at 12:30pm

Preview Performance on April 14

Queen Susan and her followers have been bogged down in a protracted battle. She’s convinced her unorthodox strategy will see them through. The anthropomorphised army is beginning to wonder. 

The premiere of a brand new work from “Canada’s fourth hottest playwright”. 

Note: This is NOT a childrens show. You should be at least 12 to ride this ride.

Adult: $36 + $4 facility fee = $40
Senior (65+): $32 + $4 facility fee = $36
Student/Artist*/Unwaged: $20 + $4 facility fee = $24
*including Theatre Ontario members

Presented By: Black Sheep

• Shakespeare’s Will

by Vern Thiessen
Starring Eleanor Crowder

April 30 – May 9 at 7:30pm
Matinees May 2, 3, 9 at 2:30pm
and May 6 at 11:30am

Preview Performance on April 29

He’s a kid, a dreamer, a writer!
She’s older, headstrong, brave enough for two.
Now he’s dead, and you get to learn the truth . . . the story of marriage to William Shakespeare, as told by Anne Hathaway.

“Well known in Ottawa as a director, I’d like to see more of Crowder as an actor as well.”
–Brian Carroll, Apt613 Theatre Review “King Lear at The Gladstone”

Adult: $36 + $4 facility fee = $40
Senior (65+): $32 + $4 facility fee = $36
Student/Artist*/Unwaged: $20 + $4 facility fee = $24
*including Theatre Ontario members

Presented By: Bear & Co.

• She Kills Monsters

by Qui Nguyen
Directed by Don Fex

May 15 – 23 at 7:30pm
Matinees May 16 & 23 at 2:30pm
and May 20 at 12:30pm

Preview Performance on May 14

She Kills Monsters tells the story of Agnes Evans as she leaves her childhood home in Ohio following the death of her teenage sister, Tilly. When Agnes finds Tilly’s Dungeons & Dragons notebook, she stumbles into a journey of discovery and action-packed adventure in the imaginary world that was Tilly’s refuge. In this high-octane dramatic comedy laden with homicidal fairies, nasty ogres, and 90s pop culture, acclaimed young playwright Qui Nguyen offers a heart-pounding homage to the geek and warrior within us all.

Adult: $36 + $4 facility fee = $40
Senior (65+): $32 + $4 facility fee = $36
Student/Artist*/Unwaged: $20 + $4 facility fee = $24
*including Theatre Ontario members

Presented By: Theatre Kraken

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