Thy Neighbour’s Wife by Tara Beagan
– Betty Mitchell AWARD for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Jamie Konchak
– Betty Mitchell Award Nomination for Outstanding Production of a Play
– Betty Mitchell Award Nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Drama – Tara Beagan
URBAN CURVZ Theatre Presents
THY NEIGHBOUR’S WIFE
by Tara Beagan
Directed By
Valerie Planche*
Featuring
Tara Beagan, Jamie Konchak*, Simone Saunders, and Len Harvey
*Appearing Courtesy of the Actor’s Equity Association
May 16 – 26, 2007
in the Joyce Doolittle Theatre
1915 Alberta. Jennie Hawkes is busy on the home front – what with rationing, attending meetings for the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and making bandages for soldiers with the Red Cross. Wilfred Hawkes is busy tending to his elderly neighbour’s young wife, Rosella Stoley. Of Wilfred’s many indiscretions, this one is the least discreet by far. Even a lady of Jennie’s mettle cannot step around this liaison with grace – every woman has her limits and Wilfred has finally found the distance to which he cannot push his own wife.
Inspired by the true story of the first woman sentenced to hang in Alberta, Thy Neighbour’s Wife is a frank and scrutinizing look at marriage, manners, money, and murder.
Aisling Corrigan, the Hawkes household’s Irish maidservant, will be your eyes and ears as she guides you through the strained marriage of Jennie and Wilfred. More importantly, she will invite you to feel the parallels between women wronged, overlooked and subsequently empowered, all drawn of an era that is applicable to our own in this tribute to the power of sisterhood against all odds.
“…don’t let the words “historical drama” deter you; Tara Beagan’s incisive and witty play is neither staid nor stuffy.”
Jennifer Besner, eye weekly
“The author puts forward a powerful feminist reading of the material, but the show’s striking theatricality makes the piece far more than a lesson in gender issues.”
Jon Kaplan, NOW magazine
Don’t miss this Dora Mavor Moore Award winning play in it’s Western Canadian Premiere!
Living Shadows – A Story of Mary Pickford
Written/Performed by Tracey Power
URBAN CURVZ Theatre Presents
Living Shadows, A Story of Mary Pickford
Written and Performed by
Tracey Power
Directed By
Brian Dooley
September 13th – 23rd 2006
In the Joyce Doolittle Theatre
Winner of the Centaur Theatre Award for Best English Production, Montreal Fringe ’06
** Winner Best of the Festival Winnipeg Fringe Festival ’06 **
During the golden age of silent film, this Canadian fireball was not only the world’s most celebrated actress but the most well known and idolized woman in the world.
It’s been 12 years since Mary Pickford left the silver screen, but when presented with an opportunity to return, how could she refuse? Sunset Boulevard – a new movie by up and coming director Billy Wilder, is about a faded silent movie star awaiting her come back. He thinks she’s perfect but what will her audience think? She’s no longer the young sweet “Little Mary” they all remember; the young girl everyone loved and cherished as their own. Along side her peers, Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks, Mary skilfully navigated her way through the entertainment industry and became ‘America’s Sweetheart’, the world’s first star. Her audience however was unwilling to let her grow up and the very icon that brought Mary such success, the girl she had taken such care to create and nurture, had threatened to destroy her. Trapped in an image she has long outgrown, Mary gathers together all her films and memoirs in order to set fire to a lifetime of monumental achievement.
Using the formula of silent movies, this powerful play tells one woman’s story of determination, survival and her journey to that crucial moment, when an historical career may be lost forever.