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By Donna McMillan | Port Dover Maple Leaf<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, July 25, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KRISTEN Da Silva\u2019s \u201cWhere You Are\u201d lights up the stage at Lighthouse Theatre.\u00a0 Its opening night audience last Thursday was captivated by a touchingly funny story of family, love lost and found, secrets, pathos and the lives of uniquely lovable characters. The fast-moving play is peppered with witty one-liners and many laugh out loud moments.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Caroline Toal, Melanie Janzen & Susan Henley in a scene from Where You Are<\/em>, written by Kristen Da Silva and directed by Jane Spence.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n


Jane Spence, no stranger to Lighthouse, directed this well-written script. I saw the play twice in less than a week and laughed and embraced it as much the second time around as the first!
Suzanne, a single mom, moved into her sister Glenda and her late husband Mark\u2019s home in Little Current on Manitoulin Island when she was pregnant with her daughter Beth more than 30 years ago. She chooses to sleep in long past the family rooster\u2019s crowing time and has a sharp tongue that can be both critically biting and hilarious at the same time.\u00a0
Glenda is the rock in the family who keeps relationships glued together, but is not above enjoying all the local gossip. She industriously makes jam to sell to neighbours. And, it just so happens, one of those next door neighbours is the very handsome new vet, Patrick, who is kept busy inseminating cows and reluctantly fixing the roof of the two women\u2019s shed.\u00a0
Beth has gone away to school and now works as a doctor in Toronto; a real doctor as opposed to a veterinarian, as Suzanne is quick to say when Patrick and Beth first meet.\u00a0

A few sparks start to fly. The performance of all four actors was exceptional in their distinctive roles and much deserved of the audience\u2019s standing ovation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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Gaelan Beatty & Caroline Toal in a scene from Where You Are<\/em>, written by Kristen Da Silva and directed by Jane Spence.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n


The action takes place on a beautifully constructed front porch of an island home, created by Set Designer Beckie Morris. The lighting, designed by Chris Malkowski, cleverly showed the passing of time from dawn to mid-day sun to dusk.\u00a0
Suzanne is an eccentric character with some of the best bold, tell-it-like-it-is sarcastic lines that can be shocking and\/or cringeworthy to her family.

Melanie Janzen is hilarious in this role as she points out how well Patrick can knock up a cow, how both Patrick and Beth are in need of rebound sex and how much she dislikes that noisy morning bird with the hairdo. Melanie has over 100 stage credits to her name and toured with Show Boat. Here in Port Dover, audiences have laughed at her performances in three past plays. Good to see her back.\u00a0

Glenda is the family sage, lecturing Suzanne on her brashness and reminding her that she can\u2019t ask nosy questions like \u2018who you are sleeping with?\u2019 as soon as she greets Beth. Contrarily, she names all her chickens after people she doesn\u2019t like to make it easier to kill them for dinner!! She takes many humorous shots at her sister, particularly her string of comments about Suzanne\u2019s early morning appearance; everything from \u201cyou look like you have rabies\u201d to \u201cyou look like Uncle Leonard when struck by lightning on Halloween.\u201d She has an emotional, heartbreaking secret she is reluctant to share. Susan Henley plays Glenda. She is also a well- known Lighthouse veteran, has performed from Stratford to PEI and was in the Toronto staging and U.S. touring of Hairspray.\u00a0

Patrick, the buff new veterinarian, is performed pricelessly by Gaelan Beatty who is making his debut on the local stage. He has acted elsewhere in a number of shows from Grease to Mary Poppins. During his early drop-ins to the porch to buy jam and eat pound cake, Patrick laments eating his $900 wedding cake bit by bit after being jilted \u201cnearly at the altar\u201d; not to mention the awkwardness of having to take his Border Collie to the wedding of his ex-fianc\u00e9e with whom he shares custody. He has numerous sidesplitting moments such as being tongue tied when he catches Beth wearing a very skimpy dress as his plus one date for the wedding and \u201cdoctoring\u201d her when she twists an ankle. If it doesn\u2019t heal, he \u201cmight have to put her down.\u201d\u00a0

Caroline Toal, also an LFT veteran and winner of two Dora Mavor Moore awards for her work elsewhere, was a joy to watch as she coped with her mom\u2019s antics, delved into her Aunt Glenda\u2019s secrets, watched the two sisters get high on medicinal (maybe?) cannabis and meets Patrick after her own relationship fizzles. She switches demeanor skillfully from the riotous young woman colliding with an ice sculpture on the wedding date to a doctor full of heartwarming empathy for her aunt\u2019s health news.

Kudos to those in the Creative Team not mentioned to date: Alex Amini was costume designer; Meghan Speakman, stage manager; Ben Tuck, assistant stage manager.

\u201cWhere You Are\u201d is on stage at Lighthouse Theatre until August 5. Don\u2019t miss out! Tickets can be purchased at the Main Street Box Office, by visiting lighthousetheatre.com or calling 519-583-2221.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n\n\t\t \t\tBuy Tickets to Where You Are<\/a>\n \t\n<\/div>\n\n
\n\n\t\t \t\tSee what's coming up next<\/a>\n \t\n<\/div>\n\n
\n\n\t\t \t\tBuy Tickets to Robin Hood (Young Company Production)<\/a>\n \t\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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