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Show Descriptions & Tickets
Doris and Ivy In The Home
June 22nd
Performance Start Time: 2:00pm
Show Run Time: 2 Hours and 10 minutes
Intermission: 20 minutes
Retired prison guard Doris Mooney has just moved into Paradise Village, a retirement home in Canmore, Alberta. She quickly befriends Ivy Hoffbauer, a former world champion skier who’s taken aback by Doris’s cheerful brashness. Rounding out the trio is dapper Arthur Beech who has designs on Ivy. Love, gossip and sex behind the compost heap, this is Foster at his hilarious best.
Murder At Ackerton Manor
July 13th
Performance Start Time: 2:00pm
Show Run Time: 2 Hours and 10 minutes
Intermission: 20 minutes
Get ready for a laugh riot, jump scare, whodunnit, murder mystery, comedy extravaganza. In this Agatha Christie murder mystery spoof, three actors play seven roles as we move through Ackerton Manor trying to solve a riddle of a murder…or two… It’s a little 39 Steps, a little Play That Goes Wrong, and whole lot of fun. Inspired by his love of murder-mystery, popular Canadian playwright Steven Gallagher created this love story to the genre based on his memories of classic murder mysteries. Murder, Mayhem,and of course… a plot twist or two!
Mary’s Wedding
August 3rd
Performance Start Time: 2:00pm
Show Run Time: 2 Hours and 10 minutes
Intermission: 20 minutes
On the night before her wedding, Mary dreams of a thunderstorm, during which she unexpectedly meets Charlie sheltering in a barn beside his horse. With innocence and humour, the two discover a charming first love. But the year is 1914, and the world is collapsing into a brutal war. Together, they attempt to hide their love, galloping through the fields for a place and time where the tumultuous uncertainties of battle can’t find them. A play with a heart as big as the skies that serve as its stage, Mary’s Wedding is an epic, unforgettable story of love, hope, and survival.
The Sweet Delilah Swim Club
August 24th
Performance Start Time: 2:00pm
Show Run Time: 2 Hours and 10 minutes
Intermission: 20 minutes
Five Southern women, whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team, set aside a long weekend every Augustto recharge those relationships. Free from husbands, kids, and jobs, they meet at the same beach cottage, the “Sweet Delilah” on North Carolina’s Outer Banks to catch up, laugh, and meddle in each other’s lives. As their lives unfold and the years pass, these women increasingly rely on one another, through advice and raucous repartee, to get through the challenges (men, sex, marriage, parenting, divorce, aging) that life flings at them. A hilarious and touching comedy about friendships that last forever…
Lakefront
September 21st
Performance Start Time: 2:00pm
Show Run Time: 2 Hours and 10 minutes
Intermission: 20 minutes
Seventy year-old Robert and sixty-eight year old Christina have just met. In fact, they are practically strangers. They are both single, and at their ages, both have doubts about their appeal to the opposite sex. So, they decide to test out their appeal, by boldly renting a lakefront cabin and spending a ‘wild’ weekend together. What can go wrong?
Cinderella: The Panto
December 13th
Performance Start Time: 11:00am
Show Run Time: 2 Hours and 10 minutes
Intermission: 20 minutes
Cinderella – The Panto: where glass slippers meet pumpkin chariots, and a Fairy Godmother moonlights as a life coach for mice. In this whimsical spectacle, the clock strikes midnight, but not before Cinderella swaps her ballgown for some tattered rags and her tiara for a scrunchie. The Ugly Stepsisters compete in a high-stakes dance-off, and the Prince insists on using a rudimentary GPS to find the mysterious shoe owner. With talking mice, disco balls, and a pumpkin spice carriage, this pantomime proves that happily ever after is just a glitter bomb away!
