Festival Players Archive
Chase the Ace—Not Playing with a Full Deck of Cards
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Tucked behind a local farm house is a cleared out field with a massive canopy style tent and rustic wooden stage where Chase the Ace joins Festival Players’ return this summer. Enjoy the Eddie Hotel and Farm’s selection of local wine and cheese as radio personality Charlie King takes a producing job in the small town of Port Bellete after losing it all to a mistaken drunken stupor. Written and […]
Reclamation and Celebration in the County
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Somewhere in the vast Prince Edward County (located west of Kingston and spanning roughly 1,050 square kilometres), a tented proscenium theatre stands before sprawling fields and a signature red barn. In addition to offering a decadent cheeseboard or glass of vino from one of the county’s many wineries, this space also recently offered a contemporary dance festival, and with no less flavour. Performed at The Eddie Hotel and Farm’s BMO […]
Music as a lifeline – ‘Beneath Springhill’ at the Six Feet Festival
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Created and performed by Beau Dixon, Beneath Springhill: The Maurice Ruddick Story follows the story of Maurice Ruddick (or “the singing miner”), an African-Canadian who survived the 1958 mining disaster when an underground earthquake hit Springhill, Nova Scotia. Originally premiering at the Thousand Islands Playhouse, this multi-award-winning play (directed by Linda Kash) now marks the return of the Festival Players’ Six Feet Festival at the Eddie Hotel & Farm’s BMO Pavilion.
Go on a Blind Date with Festival Players
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Theatre in Picton, Ontario, audiences can watch Mimi (played by Christy Bruce) go on a blind date, and even have the chance to participate in the date. Blind Date is part improv, part clowning, part miming, and makes for a fun night out for audience members of all kinds.
Festival Players’ “The Drawer Boy” explores loss and reconciliation in a location all too familiar to its audiences
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From TIP producing Ken Cameron’s Harvest, to Festival Players producing Michael Healy’s The Drawer Boy, there exists a trend in rural Canadian theatre of matching the type of theatre produced to the place in which it’s being produced, and the people for which it’s being produced. Both myself and audience members alike very much enjoy this trend, as it is a means of connecting to a theatre’s audience on a […]