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Spotlight Newsletter - March 2015

Nice picture, eh? Here on Vancouver Island, Spring is one of our favorite times, the Cherry Blossoms are out, we're sending pictures like this to our families out east, families not returning our phone calls...

And Spring also heralds a new season of Community Theatre for The Peninsula Players.  We're deep into our next show, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, and Auditions have just been announced for our Summer show at the Muse Winery! This time, it's 'Space Wars: The Empire Strikes Blanc'

So, Read on, get involved with The Peninsula Players, and very importantly, enjoy the Spring!
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"Space Wars: The Empire Strikes Blanc"

The Muse Winery and Peninsula Players Mary Winspear Centre are preparing for their sixth annual summer musical comedy written by Sasha Moriarty-Schieven, directed/produced by Gerald & Chantelle Schieven, and musical direction by Yanik Giroux.

"Space Wars: The Empire Strikes Blanc" is a hilarious romp through the galaxy with the Ultimate Weapon, a lovebot. We're seeking nine talented actors/singers to fill the following roles:

Ultima Weepon - A "lovebot", but is there more to her than meets the eye (female)
Kit Heartthrob - Captain of the Starship Ventureprise (male)
Number 2 - Kit's faithful (sycophantic?) second in command (male)
General Mangrave - A no-nonsense general who takes her job very seriously (female)
Doctor Deadrock - A mad scientist (male)
Servicedroid - A lovable service bot (male or female)
Middlemanagementdroid - An uptight bot (male or female)
Nova - A young prodigy double agent (female)
Killbot - a misunderstood robot (male or female)

Auditions are:
Saturday March 21 from 9am-noon
Sunday March 29 from noon-3pm
at the Mary Winspear Centre in Sidney.

Please email gh_ms@yahoo.com (or message "Gerald Schieven" on FaceBook) to schedule an audition or for more information. Please prepare a short (~2 minutes) song, and bring sheet music for the accompanist. (Please no a cappella or karaoke.) At audition we'll teach you some simple choreography, and will have you read various parts. (We'll send sides before the audition date.)  

Rehearsals will start in early May, and will be held at the Winspear Centre in Sidney. The performances are outdoors (in the vineyard) at the Muse Winery in North Saanich, on July 11, 18, 19, August 15, 16, 29 & 30.
 
Video clips of our previous shows can be seen here:
 
Cirque du Chablis (summer 2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bMfBceYVos
One Flew Over the Cabernet (summer 2013): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYndYyuBXgM&spfreload=10
Suddenly Sasquatch (summer 2012): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuF6R3qcghg
Gone With the Wine (summer 2011): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l_G4dVq6Q8
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Theatre Trivia

The term Off-Broadway isn't geographical. Broadway theatres have 500+ seats.
Off-Broadway have 100-499 seats.
Off-Off-Broadway < 100 seats.

Of the 40 Broadway theatres only 4 are actually on Broadway. The others are located between 40th & 54th St and 6th & 8th Ave. 
The Peninsula Players Mary Winspear

Present...

"Last Of The Red Hot Lovers"

Description
Middle-aged and married, overworked and overweight, Barney Cashman wants to join the sexual revolution before it's too late and arranges three seductions: the first, Elaine Navazio proves to be a foul-mouthed bundle of neuroses; Bobbi Michele is next, a 20-ish actress who's too kooky by half; finally comes September and Jeanette Fisher, a gloomy, depressed housewife who happens to be married to Barney's best friend.

"Mr. Simon has created a great character here...it is extraordinarily funny and yet also charming...as witty as ever, perhaps wittier." - The New York Times

"Delightfully hilarious and witty, as well as filled with wisdom about human nature...an uproariously funny author. But he is far more than that. He has a mellow and compassionate understanding of how weak and essentially well meaning mankind behaves...a genuinely brilliant play." - New York Post

Volunteers Needed!
As you know, any play needs more than just the people on stage, there are many people behind the scenes and behind the curtain helping to bring a show to life.

We're currently looking for a Producer and Backstage Crew for "Last of the Red Hot Loves"
Please contact us at peninsulaplayers.bc@gmail.com

Performance Dates

Berwick Theatre
Friday, May 8, 2015       - 7:30pm
Saturday, May 9, 2015   - 7:30pm
Sunday, May 10, 2015   - 2:00pm

Charlie White Theatre
Friday, May 15, 2015      - 7:30pm
Saturday, May 16, 2015  - 7:30pm
Sunday, May 17, 2015    - 2:00pm



Tickets will go on sale soon!

workingclasstheatre presents...

SAVAGE IN LIMBO 
by John Patrick Shanley

&

WAITING...
by Tristan Bacon

Directed by Tristan Bacon

March 11th - 21st
Preview March 10th -> Admission by ARTISTIC DONATION

NO SHOWS SUNDAY OR MONDAY

Location
Intrepid Theatre Club
#2 - 1609 Blanshard Street

Time
8pm

$20
Tickets available at @[NjQyMTgzOTU5MjA4MTA3Omh0dHBcYS8vdGlja2V0cm9ja2V0Lm9yZy86Og==:ticketrocket.org]


"Everybody's doing it to everybody, and everybody's saying the don't know why it's happening. It's happening because they 're doing it. It's a matter a cause and effect. It's a matter a responsibility. People gotta take responsibility for what they do."
Murk, SAVAGE IN LIMBO

Our 2015 season is all about that familiar anxiety. We all know how it feels to let opportunities pass by, to wait by the phone, to stagnate, to be paralysed by choices. An appropriate catharsis season for workingclasstheatre, we'll put on staged what we're passed and wait no longer!

SAVAGE IN LIMBO traps 6 men and women in a dimly lit bar with strict rules. Tony wants to be someone he's not. April wants to escape. Murk wants her to stay. Linda just wants to be seen and Denise Savage... has no idea what she wants. With no real identity but the public mask she wears, Denise searches for who she is while her friends struggle with their own ideas of identity, morals, and love. Written by the playwright who brought you DOUBT and DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA. darkly hilarious and strangely poignant tale of searching for certainty in an uncertain world.

"Oh my God you're right. It is a sign. And it's not the lighter. The sign is I'm reasoning with a cactus! ...But you're a very good listener. And I don't have anyone else."
Nic, WAITING...

Bang! The front door opens and Tom and Mary return from the bar. It's on. The lights shift and a beautiful woman sets a candlelit dinner when a guilty James arrives home form his "business trip". A blink later Nick spins on an office chair, self medicating and waiting by the phone. WAITING... by the creator of 2BR02B and ROPE OF SAND sets three stories side by side in the same apartment. At times thought-provoking and hilarious, heart-warming and heart-breaking, this play will have you wondering what else has happened in your apartment?
Theatre Trivia

- The phrase "winging it" comes from actors learning their lines in the wings just before a
performance. 

- William Shakespeare spelled his surname several ways, but never spelled it "Shakespeare", which we would consider correct.

- The oldest play in existence is “The Persians” by Aeschylus from 472BC. 

- The word "audition" originally referred to a trial in the legal sense.
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