Oct. 29 - Nov 1, 2008
(An Evening of Dramatic One-Acts)
     The Soldier Dreams  ( 1st one-act) 
           Written by Daniel MacIvor
     Rembering Shanghai  (2nd one-act) 
           Written by Peter Eliot Weiss
                               Directed by Tim Ginley and Chantale Plante

Tim Ginley	Chantale Plante

The Soldier Dreams is a dark comedy about life, death and grief. It is the story of a young man's life coming to a close, and the impact it has on his family.

David, the dying man, is haunted by the memory of an idyllic romantic encounter with a German medical student, while his family sits by, trying to cope with the loss. As he lays dying, his family gathers around his bed trying to understand his delirious utterances.

While the living struggle to find the meaning in his dying words, the audience is taken inside the man's imagination to recapture significant moments in his life.

 

Jesse Reynolds	Nancy Clue	Lawrence Evenchick	Ken Godmere	Nadine Thornhill	Chris Bedford	Lori Jean Hodge	Patrick Kennedy

Remembering Shanghai is a sophisticated and witty one-act play written in the vein of Noel Coward’s Private Lives. 

The play replaces Coward's hotel in France with the terrace of a palliative care ward. With camp sophistication, terminally ill patients Elyot and Victor, confront death with a sensuous fantasy.

Dressed in exquisite silk robes and brandishing martini glasses and cigarettes, the two carry on with glittering wit as if dying well were the best revenge against their physical torment.

Ian Stauffer	Lawrence Aronovitch