Live theatre performances
Apr/17/2013: Maclab Theatre in The Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta
  • The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
    directed by Brenda Bazinet, featuring Beth Graham (Penelope), with Nadien Chu, Ellen Denny, Sarah Machin Gale, Claire Hesselgrave, Mary Hulbert, Katie Lawson, Alison MacDonald, Margo MacDonald, Alison Mackay, Carly McKee, Catherine McNally and Lisa Norton playing multiple parts each, including the maids, the suitors and other characters.
Feb/08/2013: Shoctor Theatre, the Main Stage in The Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta
  • Private Lives by Noël Coward
    directed by Bob Baker, featuring Jeff Meadows (Victor Prynne), Diana Donnelly (Amanda Prynne), Genevieve Fleming (Sibyl Chase), John Ullyatt (Elyot Chase), and Cat Walsh (Louise).
    Performance was excellent, great timing and a nice touch of slapstick.
Apr/19/2012: Maclab Theatre in The Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
    directed by Tom Wood, featuring Marc Bondy (Theseus), Sochi Fried (Hippolyta), Chris Bullough (Philostrate, Francis Flute), Doug Mertz (Egeus, Peter Quince), Rose Napoli (Hermia), Erin Morin (Lysander), Patrick Lundeen (Demetrius), Shannon Taylor (Helena), Julien Arnold (Nick Bottom), Justin Bott (Snug), Alexander McCooeye (Robin Starveling), Jesse Griffiths (Tom Snout), Adam Cope (Attendant, Master Crumb), Jonathan Lachlan Stewart (John Hide, Mustardseed), Michael Antonakos (Oberon), Lora Brovold (Titania), and Jonathan Purvis (Puck).
    Play was very well done, and the Mechanicals' play-with-a-play was filled with well-timed slapstick. Julian Arnold and Jonathan Purvis were the stand-out performers from a great cast.
Oct/11/2011: Shoctor Theatre, the Main Stage in The Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta
  • Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
    directed by Bob Baker, featuring Tom Wood (Willy Loman), Brenda Bazinet (Linda Loman), John Ullyatt (Biff Loman), Tim Campbell (Happy Loman), Glenn Nelson (Charley), and Chris Bullough (Bernard).
    Performance was excellent.
Apr/29/2010: Maclab Theatre in The Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta
  • As You Like It by William Shakespeare
    directed by Bob Baker, featuring Ryland Alexander (Orlando), Kevin Dennis (Touchstone), Kaitlyn Semple (Phebe), David Shelley (Oliver), Rachel V. Johnson (Rosalind), Tess Degenstein (Audrey), John Kirkpatrick (Jacques), Stafford Perry (Silvius), Ryan Reid (Charles), Michael Spencer-Davis (Duke Frederick), and Julie McIsaac (Celia).
    Play was well done but with an unusual interpretation - set in 1940s France.
Apr/15/2010: Maclab Theatre in The Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta
  • The Glass Menagerie by Tenessee Williams
    directed by Tom Wood, starring Fiona Reid (Amanda Wingfield) and Shaun Smyth (Tom Wingfield), and featuring Jennifer Mawhinney (Laura Wingfield), Christopher Schulz (Jim, the Gentleman Caller), and Peter Christeas (Khalid)
Feb/24/2009: Maclab Theatre in The Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta
  • Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
    directed by James MacDonald, starring Ryland Alexander (Artemidorus and Octavius), John Kirkpatrick (Cassius), Rick Roberts (Marcus Brutus), Blair Williams (Mark Antony), Ashley Wright (Julius Caesar), Melissa MacPherson (Portia), and Annette Loiselle (Calphurnia).
1976/1977: Grand Theatre, London, Ontario
  • Les Belles Soeurs by Michel Tremblay
    Performed in English on a single-set stage. Directed by Bernard Hopkins, and featuring Peggy Watson, Julia Watts, Caroline Guerin, Alicia Jeffery, Marylu Moyer, Maureen Fitzgerald, Mary Dow, Irene Hogan, Laura Press, Doris Petrie, Jan Kudelka, Pam Rogers, Claire Crawford, Carole Forte, and Diana Leblanc.
Spring 1977: Grand Theatre, London, Ontario
  • Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
    Directed by Robin Phillips, and starring William Hutt (James Tyrone Sr) and Jessica Tandy (Mary Cavan Tyrone).
1976: Leeds Playhouse, Leeds, England
  • The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
    featuring Richard Kane (Lopakhin)
1975: Leeds Playhouse, Leeds, England
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
1975: Leeds Playhouse, Leeds, England
  • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
    featuring Richard Kane (Yossarian)
summer 1974: St Martin's Theatre, London, England
  • The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie
summer 1974: Oxford Playhouse, Beaumont Street, Oxford, England
  • The Dame of Sark by William Douglas-Home
    Part of the Oxford Theatre Festival series. Starring Celia Johnson in the title role, as Sibyl Hathaway. Also featuring Alan Gifford (Bob Hathaway), Jill Raymond (Cecile), Nicholas Courtney (Colonel Allen), Tony Britton (Colonel von Schmettow), Nicholas Loukes (Dr Braun), George Pravda (Major Lanz), Hugh Wooldridge (Robinson), and Peter Settelen (Wilhelm Muller).
summer 1974: New Theatre, Oxford, England
  • Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
    Part of the Oxford Theatre Festival series. Directed by Sir John Clements, and starring Julia Foster in the title role. Also featuring David Bird (Archbishop of Rheims), Michael Hadley (Bertrand de Poulengay), John York (Brother Martin Ladvenu), Jim Smilie (Captain La Hire), Brian Hayes (Chaplain de Stogumber), Ian Ricketts (D’Estivet), John Standing (Dauphin), John Rogan (De Courcelles), Patricia Donovan (Duchess de la Tremouille), Michael Byrne (Dunois), James Villiers (Earl of Warwick), Michael Burlington (Gille de Rais), Richard Owens (Mgr de la Tremouille), Noel Willman (Peter Cauchon), Charles Dance (Robert de Baudricourt), and Charles Lloyd Pack (The Inquisitor)
summer 1974: Oxford Playhouse, Beaumont Street, Oxford, England
  • The Trials of Oscar Wilde
    directed by Peter Coe for the Oxford Theatre Festival, produced by Gyles Brandreth, and starring Tom Baker in the title role
spring 1971: Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, England
  • The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
    directed by Terry Hands, with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), and featuring Judi Dench as Portia, with Emrys James (Shylock), Tony Church (Antonio), Michael Williams or Bernard Lloyd (Bassanio), Alison Fiske (Jessica), David Calder (Lorenzo), Polly James or Lynn Dearth (Nerissa), Peter Geddis (Launcelot Gobbo), Geoffrey Hutchings or Roger Rees (Gratiano), Alton Kumalo or Kwesi Kay (Solanio), Anthony Pedley or Denis Holmes (Salerio), Michael Shannon (Balthasar), Peter Woodthorpe or Richard Mayes (Duke of Venice), Jeffery Dench or Colin Forbes (Tubal), Gordon Gostelow (Old Gobbo), Robert Ashby (Leonardo), Peter Woodthorpe (Prince of Aragon), Miles Anderson or Matthew Robertson (Salarino), Bernard Lloyd or Robert Ashby (Prince of Morocco)
This presentation has been compiled and is © 1998-2013 by
Alwynne B. Beaudoin (bluebulrush@gmail.com)
Last updated April 27, 2013
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