Friday May 7th
Saturday May 8th
The Gabriola Centre, Peterson Road
BANANA MAN - by Don Nigro
In New York, in the summer of 1964, an aging Buster Keaton appeared in a short experimental film written by Samuel Beckett.
In this play, set in an Italian restaurant in Greenwich Village that summer, two gentlemen named Sam and Buster attempt to communicate with each other, with the unlikely help of a chatty young waitress with theatrical ambitions, who mistakes Buster for Moe from the Three Stooges and Sam for his agent.
A funny and moving play about the quiet, absurd heroism of two apparently very different but very great artists.
The players are Christine McKim as the waitress, Steve O'Neill as Buster and Paul O'Sullivan as Sam - directed by Jean Wyenberg.
GOING TO THE CHAPEL - by Donald Steele
Minutes before Julie is about to take her fifth walk down the aisle, she and her always at her side Matron of Honor, Jan, examine love and life and their friendship - each learning some things they didn't know about each other, or themselves.
The Philipstown Depot Theatre's production of Going To The Chapel was voted Best Short Production at the Theatre Association of New York State Festival in November 2004. It was also voted Audience Favorite Production.
Come see Marlyn Farrell and Nancy Jenner bring these two women to life under the direction of Doris McLaughlin.
Friday August 20th
Under The Festival Tent, Gabriola Theatre Festival
Judy Elliot Mc Donald's one act play 'In Juliet's Garden' will be featured in the Gabriola Players' summer production under the "Festival" tent, at the end of August.
In this delightful play Juliet Capulet invites four other heroines from Shakespeare's classics, Katherina, Portia, Ophelia and Desdemona to lunch in her garden in Verona where they discuss "issues" they all have with their plots. Skakespeare sends his literary agent to the meeting but declines to attend himself.
A prologue and music in the Elizabethan style will enhance this lively one act comedy directed by Catherine Andersen, with musical production by Steves Smith & Elder.