current production reviews

[Moira Day]

Greetings from the oldest drama department in the British
Commonwealth, now celebrating its 50th anniversary. Here's the Saskatoon
theatre season for 1995-96.
 
October
12-25   The Barber of Seville (Beaumarchais)    Persephone (pro)
        *(Trans.David Edney, Music, David Kaplan)
12-21   Boss Ubu (Payne adaptation)             Greystone (Univ)
17-21   Nunsense II                             Gateway (community)
19-29   Twelfth Night                           Stage One (semi-pro)
25-Nov5 *Spirit Wrestler (Greg Nelson)          25th Street Theatre (pro)
 
November
2-15    Kindertransport                         Persephone
3-5,10-12*La Trahison(The Betrayal)(Laurier Garreau) Troupe duJour(semi-pro)
14-18   Cheaper by the Dozen                    Gateway
23-Dec 2 The Duchess of Malfi                   Greystone
30-Dec13 The Stone Angel(Nichol adaptation)     Persephone
 
December
14-Jan 1  Puss'n Boots                          Stage One
 
January
16-20   Blood Relations (Pollock)               Gateway
 
February
2-4, 9-11  Les Reines de la Reserve (Rez Sisters)La Troupe du Jour
                (Highway)
TBA       * One More Time (Maria Campbell)      25th Street Theatre
8-21       Sinners (Norm Foster)                Persephone
8-16      * Lanc (Don Kerr)                     Greystone
20-24      The Dining Room                      Gateway
28-Mar 2   Smoke Damage (Rubess)                Grad production -Univ
 
March
21-April 3  If We Are Women(Glass)              Persephone
22-24,29-31* Mis a part(Set Aside)(Guy Michaud) La Troupe du Jour
28-April 6  The Country Wife                    Greystone
 
April
10-21   *Otherwise Bob (Gault)                  25th Street Theatre
16-20   Private Lives                           Gateway
25-May 8 Dads in Bondage(More and Doyle)        Persephone
 
* Denotes Saskatchewan writer
 
        Kindertransport(Diane Samuels) about Jewish children adopted by
British families during the war and The Stone Angel starring local
actress Sharon Bakker both did very well crtically and at the box
office.  The most notable new play was Greg Nelson's Spirit Wrestler,
commissioned by the Saskatchewan Doukhobor community to celebrate their
100th anniversary.  Following the fortunes of a young man who survives
the persecutions in Russia, immigrates to Canada with his community, and
breaks with that community to stay in Saskatchewan while the others move
west to B.C., the play proved very moving in performance in no small part
because of its integration of a local Doukhobor choir into the action of
the play.  It will be published by Blizzard Publishing next year.
        David Edney has done translations of Moliere's Don Juan and The
Miser which have been performed in Edmonton and Saskatoon, and the French
play Elvira about Jouvet. La Trahison has been performed before in
English at the Edmonton Fringe and elsewhere.  One More Time, premiered
at the native play festival at 25th Street Theatre last spring, is a
pungent but humorous one-act by noted Saskatchewan writer, Maria Campbell.
        Anyway, that's my news bulletin from Saskatoon