Past Seasons
Two families, more than a century apart, take turns occupying the same house and experiencing the same joys and wonderment at what the night can sometimes offer, provided disbelief is suspended, if only temporarily. In the process, both they and the audience are treated to the diverse entertainments of musicians, dancers and other performers. Commanding the festivities is the Wizard. He is easily vexed and can make you disappear forever if you annoy him. Conceived and written by Doug Lintula and directed by Richard Vaillancourt, Into the Night celebrates the mysteries of life that especially come alive in the dark, when the world is largely invisible and almost anything can be thought possible.
COMING SOON .... Midsummer Night: The Musical
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A Victorian romp based on factual people and events in 1860s Paris, "Knickers in a Twist" was adapted from the German play "Die Hose", commonly known as "The Underpants", which was written in 1910. The setting was pushed back 50 years by local writer Kate Carter and transported to the cobblestones of Paris. Seen as a "dark comedy", the play follows the fallout of a married couple when a Councellor's wife's "knickers" fall down in public. This scene causes a commotion among the men in town who then rent rooms at her husband's home to try to seduce the young wife.
Interweaving history and fiction, Nith Wits introduces us to Bobby West in 1905 down by the banks of the Nith river, his true home in Paris. Join Bobby and Lucy and some of their friends on a musical midsummer romp through love and loneliness and riverbank shenanigans.
Originated by the great Maggie Smith, Lettice of the play's title "Lettice and Lovage" is a guide at Fustian Hall who shows glum, raincoated tourists round what appears to be the drabbiest, most boring stately home in all England. As group follows group onto its main staircase, her spiel gets more and more extravagant. History is her hobby and eccentricity her vocation, seen by the usage of "lovage" as one of the many herbs in the imitation-Elizabethan liquer Lettice brews in her kitchen. The one true event that happened in the dreary old home records the knighthood of an early Fustian by the visiting Elizabeth I after he prevented her from tripping, leaping over nine steps to save the Glorianna from "certain death". However entertaining this story may be, it does not please Lotte Schoen, the head of the concervatory agency that employs Lettice, who watches her employee's every move.
2004 - Behind the Deerskin: A Tribute to Pauline Johnson
The production brings to life Pauline's poetry as it is set to music, as well as a selection of Owen Smiley's songs. The play follows Pauline from her beginnings on the Vaudeville stage to being the toast of the Royalty of Europe. "Behind the Deerskin" shares Pauline Johnson's writings, love of performing, and romantic adventures.
2005- The Ballad in Vera's Icebox
It's 1948 and Vera Thompson is newly widowed. Her husband was an up-and-coming poet and novelist whose poetry and short stories were finding critical acclaim in all the best literary journals. They settled down in Port Dover and enjoyed their life until that fateful day on Georgian Bay. Now Vera is living in Burford, Ontario. That's when the playwright Josie Darling arrives to tell her that her husband didn't drown but committed suicide because of an aborted love affair. Vera's got his letters, her euchre-playing friends, her memories and a broken ice box to help her answer some questions: Do we ever know the truth about someone we love? How do we emerge from the cocoon of mourning? And what does the afterlife smell like?
On the main stage, the Cobblestone Festival is proud to present Let's Put on a Show , a ‘how-to’ of the Gilbert and Sullivan musical tradition written by Andy Blackwood. Modern musicals owe much of their inspiration to the works of W.S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan. Hummable tunes, topical dialogue and grand pageantry (not to mention lots of sailors, pretty young maidens and not-so-nasty villains) were the hallmarks of these two giants of the English musical stage. This fun and instructive program will introduce you to all of the components necessary to put on a terrific musical show. Allow us to show you how Gilbert and Sullivan’s formula still works in creating the ideal entertainment for young and old. You may even have the urge to sing along!
Modern musicals owe much of their inspiration to the works of W.S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan. Hummable tunes, topical dialogue and grand pageantry (not to mention lots of sailors, pretty young maidens and not-so-nasty pirates/villains) were the hallmarks of these two giants of the English musical stage. This light and colourful play will introduce you to all of the musical components in musical comedy. Allow us to show you how Gilbert and Sullivan’s formula still works in creating the ideal entertainment for young and old. You may even have the urge to sing along!
Reprising the 2003 smash hit, come meet Bobby West, the incorrigible and dreamy character who roamed the streets of Paris with his gramophone and goggles on. Interweaving history and fiction, Nith Wits introduces us to Bobby in 1905 down by the banks of the Nith River, his true home. He encounters Lucy Jameson, a young girl who dresses as a boy in order to find work. Join Bobby, Lucy and some of their friends on a musical midsummer romp through love, loneliness and riverbank shenanigans.