City of Wine — Kingston Theatre Alliance

The perennial City of Wine offers its first full bloom with Harmonia, a tale of forbidden love between a goddess and a mortal. Harmonia is the first in the nine-play cycle by local playwright Ned Dickens, which the Grapevine Theatre Project plans to produce as a series over the next five years. After an enormous effort by a network of over 300 theatre lovers, Harmonia is the magnificent fruit of […]

Working with little more than a shoestring and their lines in City Park, a collective of Kingston’s theatre community have brought their project to fruition after months of meeting, reading, and planning together in the virtual world forced upon us by the pandemic.

When Ontario went into a full lockdown in late December, the prospect of theatre, even digital, seemed far-fetched. Yet, in the midst of uncertainty and anxiety from the lockdown, something beautiful happened for Kingston’s small, but mighty theatre community. 

First performed on a picnic table at the 2000 Toronto Fringe Festival, the play has made quite a journey to its 2020 conception at the Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning. While playwright and director Dickens seeks to explore how even ancient stories can have surprise endings, it’s more of a poetic rendering of the classical Greek myth than it is a reimagining.