The Queen
of Hearts
by John
Crocker, Music by Eric Guilder
November 6 – 9, 2003
The Queen
of Hearts
is presented in the traditional British panto style with a chorus of 24,
singing leads of 14 plus a talented band. The audience is required to Boo
and Cheer and sing along, while helping the hero find the treasure, which
includes his bride. Larger than life characters including a panto animal,
cavort with the audience as they sing and dance their way to success.
Based
(rather loosely) on the well-known fairy tale, The Queen of the Land of
Hearts must bake some tarts in order to have her daughter wed to the
Prince of Diamonds. However the tarts are stolen away by The Knave of
Hearts. The Queen and King, along with The Prince and Princess, and
everyone else – demons, fairies, sorcerers, police, footmen – follow the
trail of the tarts to the moon and back.
The
British panto is a form of entertainment derived from a number of
different sources; commedia del’arte, ballet, opera, music hall, folklore
and fairy tales. This strange mixture has created a splendid topsy-turvy
world where men are women, where the present is embraced within the past,
where people are hit but not hurt, where authority is constantly flouted,
where everything is open to ridicule including pantomime itself, and above
all, where magic abounds and dreams invariably come true. And yes, The
Queen of Hearts has all of this.
Tickets are available at the Nepean Creative Arts
Centre, Stafford Road (596-8783), from cast and crew, at the door on the
date of performance or can be reserved for pickup by email or by calling
825-1917.
Ron Kolbus Lakeside Centre
(formerly Lakeside Gardens), Britannia Park
Thursday
November 6 to Saturday November 8 -
7:30pm
Saturday
November 8, Matinee
- 2:00pm
Sunday
November 9, Matinees
- 11am & 3pm
Members of the media are
invited to contact either directors Sue Hall (829-9565) or Jim Alexander
(day 765-2515, evening 623-5437) or email
lakesideplayers@gosympatico.ca.
The Queen of Hearts November
6- 9, 2003
The Melville Boys
by Norm Foster
April 29 - May 2, 2004
Owen
and Lee Melville arrive at their lakeside cottage for a relaxing weekend of
drinking beer, fishing and just being guys.
Their well-laid plans go awry with the timely arrival of two sisters,
Loretta and Mary. The woman stay the
night and we learn how each individual must deal with a different past and
an uncertain future. This is a funny and
tender, yet unsentimental, look at how the four of them share a common
ground while moving through different
stages of their lives.
Ron Kolbus Lakeside Centre
(formerly Lakeside Gardens), Britannia Park
Thursday
April 29 to May 1 -
8:00 pm
Sunday
May 2, Matinee
- 2:00pm
