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WOMEN OF THE FUR TRADE
BY FRANCES KONCAN
Saturday October 12, 2024 – (celebrating Indigenous People’s Day)
Set in eighteen hundred and something-something, somewhere upon the banks of a reddish river in Treaty One Territory, where three very different women with a preference for 21st-century slang sit in a fort sharing their views on life, love and the hot nerd Louis Riel. This play shifts perspectives from the male gaze onto women’s power in the past and present through the lens of the rapidly changing world of the Canadian fur trade.
BLUEBIRDS BY VERN THIESSEN
Monday November 11th, 2024 – (celebrating Remembrance Day)
A beautiful remount of last year’s stage reading to honour Remembrance Day. Étaples, France, 1918. Nurses Christy, Maggie, and Bab have crossed oceans to care for wounded Canadian soldiers in the Great War. Despite the terrible injuries they must deal with, they manage to stay hopeful as the dangers of the front draw closer to their hospital.
GROUNDED BY JOHN SPURWAY
Saturday January 4th, 2025
In this relatable and mysterious comedy five strangers learn how they are connected while they wait for their plane to depart from Pearson airport after a number of delays.
FENCES BY AUGUST WILSON
Sunday February 23rd, 2025 – (celebrating black history month)
Fences is a 1985 play by the American playwright August Wilson. Set in the 1950s, it is the sixth in Wilson’s ten-part “Pittsburgh Cycle”. Like all of the “Pittsburgh” plays, Fences explores the evolving African-American experience and examines race relations, among other themes. The play won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play. This play is being presented to celebrate Black History Month.
LES BELLES SOEURS BY MICHEL TREMBLAY
Saturday March 22nd, 2025 – (celebrating International Women’s Day)
Set in Montreal in the 1960s, the plot involves a woman who, having won an enormous quantity of trading stamps in a sweepstakes, throws a “stamping party”, with her female relatives and some neighbourhood women invited. As the women paste the stamps into booklets, they bicker, banter, critique, and argue about their problems, circumstances, and everything wrong with the world.
HILDA’S YARD BY NORM FOSTER
Saturday April 12th, 2025
It’s an exciting summer day in 1956 for Hilda and Sam Fluck. Newly on their own since their thirtysomething children Gary and Janey moved out, they are finally ready to relax. Hilda plans to hang her laundry while Sam goes to buy a shiny new television. What could disturb their simple peace?
DRAG QUEENS IN OUTER SPACE
Saturday May 17th, 2025 – (celebrating Pride)
A sequel….or prequel??? to last seasons pride reading Drag Queens on Trial, Drag Queens in Outer Space is a comedy about three drag queens lost in space, time and gay politics.
Theatre NorthWest is excited to continue it’s Stage Reading Series and we are opening the stage to you!
Throughout the season, Theatre Northwest will host a number of stage readings presented by local Prince George residents. A stage reading is a rehearsed presentation of a script performed live for a seated audience. There are no props or costumes and the actors are not “off book” but rather read from their scripts throughout the presentation.
Theatre Northwest is looking for community members who are interested in presenting a play or individuals who are interested in participating as readers. Theatre NorthWest can assist with rehearsal space, finding performers, recommending material for presentation, hosting the reading in our theatre, marketing on our social media and website, making copies of scripts, obtaining performance rights and selling tickets. If you are interested in presenting or performing in our stage reading series please fill out our interest form below, one of our artistic associates will follow up with you as presentation times become available.
