Date: series of workshops, Feb. 15, 22, 29 and March 7, 2024
Location: Centre Wakefield La Peche
Description: Workshop

Theatre Wakefield was thrilled to present a second series of storytelling workshops, Beading Your Story, with Indigenous artist Louise Profeit-Leblanc over four weeks in February and March 2024. The invitation came through multi-disciplinary artists and facilitators Iris Kiewiet and Destini Broom. In this next phase, Louise brought a strong storytelling aspect to the project: participants circled around a canvas frame, hearing stories from Louise and learning how to share their own – while engaging their hearts and hands in a piece of beading art shared with many others. This series of workshops showed the power and strength of the Indigenous traditions and ways of being in the world.

Date: February 18, 2024
Location: Centre Wakefield La Peche
Description: Special Event.

This year’s theme was “Wild” — teams comprised of local groups donned wild costumes and performed choose-your-own-adventure styles of entertainment on a runway leading to a hospital bed. This event was 100% volunteer run and all proceeds from the event went to support improvements to the living environment in long-term care facilities in the Des Collines area. Theatre Wakefield contributed the Pyramus and Thisbe excerpt from A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Date: March 25, 2023
Description: Special Event

The workshop with facilitator Farah Fancy on DEI issues was provocative, challenging and inspiring. Thirty-five cultural workers and artists attended from our region. Through a wide variety of techniques and exercises — from dancing our “JEDI Warrior,” to presenting non-traditional fairy tales to each other — Farah helped us to understand the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class and gender, and how these intersecting and overlapping social identities can be both empowering and oppressing.

Date: May – September, 2023
Description: Special Event.

This project offered the English language community of LaPêche the opportunity to come together to design, create and present two evenings of theatre featuring illuminated hand-made puppets ranging from small to bigger-than-life-size. The theme and storyline were based on a feisty little girl who gets lost in the forest, then finds her way back home with the help of the woodland creatures and plants around her. This, our biggest and most complex creation project ever, had at its heart our belief that bringing a diverse group of people together in a welcoming environment to work creatively over weeks and months would lead to a deepened appreciation for the arts, strengthened ties among them, and a beautiful piece of art. And we were right!

Date: May 19-21, 2023
Description: Special Event

Three members of the Canadian Academy of Mask and Puppetry (CAMP) — the training arm of the acclaimed Old Trout Puppet Workshop in Calgary — came to Wakefield to offer a three-day workshop on how to create and perform with puppets. Theatre Wakefield invited a core group of 10-15 enthusiastic community members (largely visual artists from Place des Artistes de Farrellton) to learn from these master puppeteers.

Date: June 3,10,17,24, 2023
Description: Special Event

The visual artists who took part in training with CAMP then led a series of four workshops over the summer with an estimated 100 participants from the community (including at least 30 children) to create over 80 puppets of all sizes. We chose to design and build lantern puppets that were lit from within by LED lights — covered in muslin, the puppets shimmered when the lights bounced off the muslin, creating beautiful and unforgettable images.

Date: September 16 and 23, 2023
Description: Special Event 

We auditioned for all the speaking roles in the play, invited local musicians and choristers, asked a Chelsea dance school’s young dancers to participate as fireflies, engaged a writer, choreographer, choir leader and director. After many rehearsals, we performed the piece just after dusk at Maison Fairbairn as part of Theatre Wakefield’s TaDa! Performing Arts Festival. Tickets for the performances sold out three days after they went on sale; over 400 people attended.

Producer: Roberta Lloyd
Artistic Director/Co-scriptwriter: Mary Ellen MacLean
Visual Artists: Geneviève Cloutier, Kathryn Drysdale, CJ Fleury, Patrick Thompson
Choreographer: Kelsey Walsh
Composer/Choir Director:Vanessa Lachance
Co-scriptwriter:Paul Hetzler
Performers: Osa Natalie Fraser, Dawn Moore, Steve Powers, Elle Gray
Puppeteers: Noelle Walsh, Rosemary Millar Bunch, Mae Levoy Moore, Beatrice Gaudet, Finley Douglas Drake, Eliza Douglas Drake, Hazel Kirvan
Fireflies: Florence Hamel, Jasper and Jenson Smith, Lizeth and Stefan Rodriquez, Floriane Zamora, Pippa and Finlay Murchison, Annaliese, Julian and Ciarán MacLean, Rosie and Charlie, Robin and Glynn Haultain, Gemma, Emmett and Avery, Hazel
Stage Manager: Jesse Kahat
Tech Director: Claude Laroche
Marketing: Rebecca Russell, Rob Linke

Date: May 25, 2023
Directed by: Yvette Nolan and Joel Bernbaum
Producer: Andrea Rowe
Featuring: Teresa Bandrowska, Osa Natalie Fraser, Melisa Kamibayashi, Ian McMullen, Steve Powers, Lo Sirois
Playwrights: Ann Cavlovic, Jeff Froggett, Hillary Jocelyn, Dawn Moore, Leia Ranger-Drouin, Laura Wesley
Description: Playreading

From January to May, the Wakefield Writers Festival worked with theatre artists Joel Bernbaum and Yvette Nolan to select and guide playwrights from our community who were interested in writing ten-minute verbatim theatre plays, coaching them via zoom. When the plays were ready, Theatre Wakefield auditioned six actors from the community to play multiple parts, and organized rehearsals directed by Joel and Yvette. The six ten-minute pieces were presented as part of the Wakefield Writers Fête 2023 — both in person to a sold-out audience, and via live-stream.

Date: July 24 – August 4, 2023
Description: Summer Camp
Camp Director: Jesse Kahat
Coordinator: Andrea Rowe

These two one-week theatre camps set out to teach young people aged 5-12 some basic acting techniques along with singing, dancing and crafting. The objective of the camp was to expose young people to the performing arts through fun, hands-on activities; each week ended with a performance for family and friends.

Date: September 15-17, 22-24, 2023
Description: 9th Annual Festival

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Date: October 28, 2023
Description: Ghost Story reading

Director and MC: Steve Powers
Stage Manager: Lisa Waldick
Writers and Readers: Mike Barker, Cathy Edwards, Laurie Gough, Sue Gravel, Glenn Leckie, Phil Jenkins, Melisa Kamibayashi, Leia Ranger-Drouin
Musicians: Neal Sundet, Wim Kok
Set and Costumes: Vanessa Passmore

We invited members of the community to write and submit ghost/horror stories several months in advance, then we choose six to read to the public. We engaged make-up artists for all the story readers, helped them with their costumes, hired two musicians to play live, spooky music during the readings, and engaged a visual artist to design an eight-foot table littered with the artefacts of what we imagined ghosts and goblins would eat. The premise was that this was a dinner party hosted by one Dr. Painsworth, after which the guests would read their stories for each other. We were able to offer face painting to the audience members, which were a hit! Almost 100 people attended the show.

Date: November 25, 2023
Description: Special Event

A special evening event to celebrate our 20th anniversary – a year late, due to COVID. The event celebrated the long and significant contribution Theatre Wakefield has made to our community, taking a nostalgic look back at memorable moments from our past, and projecting into our future. The evening featured skits by Theatre Wakefield alumni, scenes from plays and songs we have performed over the years. Hosted by Scott and Éric Hébert-Daly.

Date: December 22, 2023
Description: TW Presents

Theatre Wakefield presented Bear & Co.’s version of A Child’s Christmas in Wales three days before Christmas. Done as a two-hander under the direction of Eleanor Crowder, actors Nicholas Amott and Rachel Eugster breathed life into the characters Thomas created, shared their own holiday memories, and sent our spirits soaring with midwinter harmonies. The evening ended with a CarolSing with the whole audience. Over 125 adults and children attended.

Date: May 2022
Description: Festival

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Date: May 24, 2022
Description: Special Event

Seniors Create gave seniors in our community the chance to express themselves through movement and the visual arts. Facilitated by the late Tedd Robinson, a professional contemporary dance artist, and Diane Lemire, local visual artist, about a dozen seniors worked together to learn about their movement capabilities, the basics of acting/dancing, and explored and expressed themselves through themes they chose collectively. Those interested in the visual arts created the set for the piece. A young dance artist, Elizabeth Emond-Stevenson, assisted Tedd and participated in the work. COVID postponed the TaDa! Festival where the piece was to premiere, but eventually it went ahead in May 2022.

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Date: June 17, 21, 2022
Description: Special Event

Following its success in the fall of 2021, Theatre Wakefield organized two more Drag Queen Story Hours: two drag queens visited two elementary schools in the area (Eardley Elementary and Pierre Elliott Trudeau Elementary) to read illustrated story books about diversity, being proud and accepting of oneself even if we feel different from others — and celebrating those differences. The entire schools participated with two grades at a time filing into the school gym for the program (with each geared to a different age group). The drag queens read, danced, talked about their own journeys, and responded with sensitivity to questions from the kids. Again, organized by the amazing Lara Guenette.

Date: August 24, 2022
Description: Summer Camp

Jesse Kahat ran our one-week camp, Hooray for Hollywood!, at Centre Wakefield LaPêche this year. Our first camp in several years, we were thrilled to have 16 children sign up and learn about theatre from this very talented young arts professional.

Date: November 18, 19, 25-27, 2022
Description: Wakefield Players

Playwright: Margaret Raether
Based on the P.G. Wodehouse stories

Produced by David Park
Directed by Claude Laroche
Stage Manager: Shelley Harrison
Set Design: Larry Laxdal
Costume Design: Vanessa Passmore
Lighting Design: Claude Laroche

Performers: Gabriel Milling, Jim Potter, Mike Barker, Otiena Ellwand, Stephanie Muller-Kavanagh, Steve Powers

Our Fall comedy, Jeeves at Sea, was very popular with audiences, attracting 575 people over five shows —  78% capacity of Gwen Shea Hall in the Centre Wakefield LaPêche. It was our most popular show since Into the Woods in 2015 – from this and our TaDa Festival, we realized that our audiences were back after COVID!

Date: December 11, 2022
Description: Special Event

This 12-week theatre program for eight youth and seniors, taught them acting and performance skills, ending with a performance in December on stage at the Centre Wakefield La Pêche. The project had been conceived for youth, but low registration (despite heavy promotion) led us to open the project up to all ages. Taught by local professional actress Mary Ellen MacLean, students learned more physical awareness on stage, various movement techniques through improvisation, some voice work, and how to work together as an “ensemble.” The project ended with a group performance at the Centre Wakefield LA Pêche.

Date: May, July, 2021
Location: Zoom, various outdoor locations
Description: Playreading

These monthly, small-scale, no-fuss readings of professional plays began on zoom, then went live outdoors. The aim was to keep our pool of local actors sharp, bring new actors into the fold, and give some people interested in performance a taste of theatre during the COVID lock-down. Led by Geoff Aucoin

Date: August 2021
Location: Maison Fairbairn House’s outdoor stage
Description: Special Event

A variety show like no other, La Pêche Has Le Talent invited seasoned performers and enthusiastic amateurs  to dance, sing, lip sync, joke around, or otherwise let loose to illustrate the talent of our friends and neighbours. This was a free, live outdoor event at Fairbairn House during COVID. Led by Geoff Aucoin.

Date: October, 2021
Location: Wakefield Elementary School
Description: Special Event

Drag queens and kings read stories to children at the local elementary school about daring to be who you really are. This project captured the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood, and gave kids glamorous, positive and unabashedly queer role models. The performance elicited support from the Low Down in the form of a dithyrambic editorial by Trevor Greenaway, and it was chosen as one of the top stories of 2021 by the same local rag! Led by the courageous Lara Guenette.

Date: October, 2021
Location: LaFab sur Mill, Chelsea
Description: Playreading

A playreading of a verbatim theatre piece about homelessness, Home is a Beautiful Word by Saskatoon playwright Joel Bernbaum was a co-production with Wakefield Writers Fête that brought a new literary audience to a TW production. Also the first hybrid presentation: livestreamed and in-person. A poem was commissioned and read by Algonquin Albert Dumont before the reading, a Q&A followed the performance with members of social agencies for homelessness, and the next day two workshops were offered on verbatim theatre and embodied theatrical movement.

Date: October – December, 2021
Description: Special Event

Led by Brian Sanderson and Luther Wright, this project brought local musicians together to play and sing each other’s songs. It was supposed to take place in five iconic music Halls in the region, but turned into recording sessions, a CD, a film and eventually, when COVID allowed, a live concert in June 2022.

Date: January
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: TW Presents

Presented by the Linden House Theatre Society of Ottawa.

A Gift of Traditions, Old and New

Date: December 19, 2020
Location: Posted on Facebook/Website
Description: Special Event (COVID)

Despite the COVID Grinch stealing Christmas in 2020, our West Quebec Youth were delightfully inspired to cheer us all up!

Under the tutelage of Wakefield resident Lara Guenette (actress and former stage manager with Theatre Wakefield and most recently a high school drama teacher), the Youth and Elves created an amazing Virtual Variety Show that aired on Theatre Wakefield’s Facebook page Saturday, Dec. 19 at 7 pm. The show brought light and joy into our homes near the darkest night of 2020, just before the solstice. The 45-minute program featured:

Stop motion animation skits, a youth choir, holiday baking interviews with our elders, holiday craft making, a puppet show, dance and lots of laughs.

Date: January 24-26 Tour
Locations: Brennan’s Hill Bar and Restaurant, Brennan’s Hill; La FAB sur Mill, Chelsea; Pontiac High School, Shawville
Description: Playreading

Playwright: Vicki Williams
Director: Peter Haworth
Producer: Mara McCallum
Designer: Sebastien Molgat

How Libby Got Married was the product of Theatre Wakefield’s New Works program – From Page to Stage, under the direction of Peter Haworth. It was chosen to tour to three regional venues.

Date: February
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Festival

Thankfully, the 2020 Festival took place just a couple of weeks before the COVID shut-down. Curated by Melanie Willis.

Date: April to May
Location: Facebook
Description: Special Event (COVID)

Board member Geoff Aucoin organized a series of Facebook challenges so families could create stories through videos according to selected themes. Each one was sillier than the last. Prizes were free pizzas from a local pizza parlour paid for by Theatre Wakefield since restaurants were suffering so much during COVID. These challenges were very popular.

Date: May to August
Location: Posted on Facebook/Website
Description: Special Event (COVID)

During the first few weeks of COVID, Theatre Wakefield teamed up with Dale Kerr who set up a radio station at the Cente Wakefield La Pêche. A variety of actors, led by  Jeffrey Ferguson and Jennifer Currie, created comedy sketches for broadcast.

Date: July 1
Location: Posted on Facebook/Website
Description: Special Event (COVID)

Date: February 2-24
Location: Centre Wakefield La Peche
Description: Festival

Date: March 16
Location: Centre Wakefield La Peche
Description: TW Presents

Date: March to November
Description: Workshops and Playreadings

Date: May 3-4
Location: Vorlage Ski Lodge
Description: Playreadings

Back by popular demand, for our Spring  production we reprised two plays: Jack King; Ace Detective by Keith Davidson, and The Trouble with Ninjas by Caitlin Oleson. Both plays had come through Theatre Wakefield’s New Works Program – From Page to Stage and had been featured at previous TaDa! Performing Arts Festivals.

Date: July 1
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Special event

Invited to participate in the Canada Day Celebrations in Wakefield, a number of the Wakefield Players performed some improv on the grounds, much to the delight of the mix of ages who were present.

Date: September 13 – 15
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Festival

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Date: October 10
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: TW Presents

Playwright: Marius von Mayenburg
Director: Peter James Haworth
Performers: Sasha Dominique, Andrew Hosale, Julie Le Gal, David Whiteley

Lette thought he was normal, but when the extent of his ugliness is revealed he turns to a plastic surgeon for help. Then, after the bandages come off, Lette soon learns that there is such a thing as too beautiful.

The Ugly One is a scalpel-sharp comedy on beauty, identity and getting ahead in life. 

Date: October 18-20
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Festival

Date: November 10
Location: The Blacksheep Inn
Description: TW Presents

Date: November 22, 23, 24, 29 & 30
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Wakefield Players mainstage production

Playwright: Ron Stolz
Director: Peter Haworth
Producer: Jeffrey Ferguson
Stage Manager: Andrea Rowe
Technical Director: Rink DeLange
Performers: Shelley Harrison, Gabriel Jort-Pelletier, Claude Laroche, Maria-Hélèna Pacelli, David Park, Jim Payette

Maîtres Chez Nous is a story about our history. But it’s also a story about people, and how history and time shaped them. The inspiration to write this play came from the playwright reading an article about two politicians, Lucien Bouchard and Jean Charest, looking back 20 years after the 1995 Quebec referendum, which thrust them unexpectedly into the middle of a national drama. It was an event neither could foresee when they entered public life, but it consumed them and motivated them to assume a vital role in the outcome. This is the story of six Montrealers who lived through those decades of turbulence and how the events profoundly affected their lives.

Maîtres Chez Nous went through the 2017 New Works Project – From Page To Stage, working with Lascelles dramaturge Peter Haworth who critiqued up to three re-writes while providing a structured and supportive environment in which to explore the various artistic dimensions of the play. At the end of the process, it was selected as a full mainstage production.

Date: December 12-13
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Special Event

Date: February 3 – March 4
Location: Centre Wakefield La Peche
Description: Festival

Date: March 22
Location: The Blacksheep Inn
Description: Special event

Director: Leanne Olson
Director’s Coach: Andrew Rooney
Performers: Jen Currie, Stephen Ferguson, Andrea Rowe, and two others. 

Dispatches Without Borders draws on dozens of Doctors Without Borders volunteer blogs to introduce five distinct characters at the front lines of humanitarian fieldwork: a patient, doctor, nurse, psychologist and logistician. Together, they explore the complexities of their experiences from five different points of view.

Dispatches Without Borders was a fundraiser for Doctors Without Borders and the Wakefield Emergency Fund.

Date: May 12
Location: Centre Wakefield La Peche
Description: Special Event

Date: June 2,10 & 15
Location: Brennan’s Hill, Lac Ste Marie, Shawville
Description: Playreading

Date: September 7-8
Location: Centre Wakefield La Peche
Description: Festival

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Date: October 12-14
Location: Centre Wakefield La Peche
Description: Festival

Four tasty films about our relationship to food, growing it, preparing it and eating it

Date: November 15
Location: Glebe Community Centre
Description: Special event, playreading

Dispatches Without Borders draws on dozens of blogs by Medecins sans frontières (MSF) volunteers to introduce five distinct characters at the front lines of humanitarian fieldwork: a patient, a nurse, a doctor, a strategist, a social worker. Each explores the complexities of the fieldwork from five different points of view.  This was a fundraiser for MSF.

Directed by Leanne Olson
Coach to Director: Andrew Rooney
Performers: Steve Ferguson, Andrea Rowe, Jen Currie and two more.

Date: November 18
Location: The Blacksheep Inn
Description: TW Presents

A tribute show honouring Joni Mitchel, this presentation featured actors and musicians from Bear & Co., an Ottawa theatre company. 

Date: November 23, 24, 25, 30 –  December 1
Location: Centre Wakefield La Péche
Description: Wakefield Players

Two One-Act Plays with the theme: Comedy, Then and Now
Directed by Gabriel Milling
Producer: Lynn Berthiaume
Supervising Producers: Linda Gillies, David Park
Stage Manager (Love Potion): Andrea Rowe
Backstage Manager: Sophie Doucet
Technical Director: Rink de Lange

Performers:

Caught With His Trance Down (1897): Gabriel Milling, Nelson Oser-Small, Jim Potter, Marni Jones, Robert Milling, Maria-Hélèna Pacelli

Love Potion (2015): Roland Stieda, Teresa Bandrowska, Maria-Hélèna Pacelli, Patricia MacGowan, Jeffrey Ferguson

Love Potion went through Theatre Wakefield’s New Works program – From Page to Stage in 2015 and was chosen to produce in 2016.

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Date: March to November
Description: Playwriting

Date: February 17
Location: Centre Wakefield La Peche
Description: Festival

Date: March 19
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Spring production

Date: July – September
Touring: 12 communities throughout the region: Maison Fairbairn House, Wakefield; Bristol; Low; Chelsea; La Grange de la Gatineau, Cantley; Poltimore; Lac Ste. Marie; Kazabazua; Brennan’s Hill; Shawville; Luskville; Quyon

Description: Special event

River Valley Rendezvous, part of the larger multi-year project Our Hidden Hills, engaged English-speaking seniors and youth living in Quebec’s Outaouais region in various heritage animation activities to reinvigorate the cultural heritage and history of the Lower Gatineau Valley. It ran from September 2014 through November  2015. Participating seniors were mentored in a heritage animation process of workshopping and scripting local history.

Some of these stories were incorporated by local playwright and musician Ian Tamblyn in A Summer … A Fair, an hour-long production of vignettes and songs directed by Sheena Turcotte that toured to 15 regional venues. Ian created two other plays from the material of the River Valley Rendezvous: A Bridge To The Past (2015) and A River Runs Through Us (2016). The former was also a Theatre Wakefield production while the latter was produced by Maison Fairbairn House as part of their River Pride project.

For more on the Our Hidden Hills project, see www.ourhiddenhills.ca. 

A Summer … A Fair
Playwright and Composer: Ian Tamblyn
Director: Sheena Turcotte
Stage Manager: Lara Guenette
Performers: Mara McCallum, Rob McCart, Dylan Phillips, Matt Selic

Date: September 8-10
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche, Kaffe 1870
Description: Festival

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Date: November 25, 25, 26 December 1, 2, 3
Location: Centre Wakefield La Peche
Description: Wakefield Players Fall Production

Playwright: John Hardie
Director: Peter Haworth
Co-Producer: Linda Gillies
Co-Producer and Stage Design: David Park
Stage Manager: Andrea Rowe

Performers: Scott Hébert-Daly, Yolande Henry, Gabriel Jort-Pelletier, Greg McKenzie, Nelson Oser-Small, Christian Ouellet, Jill Rick

Date: November 26
Location: The Blacksheep
Description: Special event

The album launch for the album Te Na Gadino and A Gatineau Soundtrack:  selected  music from Ian Tamblyn’s trilogy of plays based on the Gatineau River (A Bridge to the Past, A River Runs Through Us, A Summer … A Fair).

Date: April 2
Location: Centre Wakefield La Peche
Description: TW Presents

written by Lorne Elliot , performed by Lorne Elliot with Karen Cromer

Lorne Elliott

Date: July 10
Location: Maison Fairbairn House
Description: TW Presents

Playreading performed by Ottawa theatre professionals and Wakefield Players on the outdoor stage of Maison Fairbairn.

Date: July & August
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Summer Camp

A two-week summer camp directed by Julie Le Gal.

Date: September 9-11
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Festival

The 4th annual festival of theatre, dance, community art and workshops. This year with outdoor market and music, children and theatre

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Date: September 16-18
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Festival

An extension of WIFF – Four films telling real stories about real people driven by, fed by, nurtured by, sustained by, music.

Date: March – October
Description: Playwriting workshops

Date: November 18,19 December 2 and 3
Location: Moulin Wakefield Mill Hotel
Description: Fall Production

Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre. Written by Scott Hebert-Daly, performed by the Wakefield Players Improv group.

Date: December 16-17
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche & Mill Street Cultural Space
Description: Special Christmas Event

Performed by the Wakefield Players.

Date: January – March
Location: Various locations
Description: Special Event

A mentoring program collecting and scripting stories from and with local seniors. These stories were then converted into a permanent audio visual exhibit at Maison Fairbairn.

Date: January 17
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: TW Presents

Lorne Elliott

Date: February 7 – March 1 (Sat & Sun)
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Festival

Date: May 2
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: TW Presents

Gab Desmond: voice and violin
J.F. Poulin: voice and guitar
Pierre-Armand Tremblay: piano
Jean-Sebastien Clement: double bass
Mario Roy: drums

Date: July – August
Location: St. Andrews United Church, Wakefield
Description: Summer Camp

A four week, full-time course directed by Robert Rooney and Brenda Rooney for youth aged 11-16 from the region. The young people wrote, filmed, directed and starred in short films that were then presented with plenty of aplomb at the Film Camp Gala.

Date: August tour
Location: Wakefield, Otter Lake, Danford Lake, Bristol, Low, Chelsea, Cantley
Description: Special Event

River Valley Rendezvous, part of the larger multi-year project Our Hidden Hills, engaged English-speaking seniors and youth living in Quebec’s Outaouais region in various heritage animation activities to reinvigorate the cultural heritage and history of the Lower Gatineau Valley. It ran from September 2014 through November  2015. Participating seniors were mentored in a heritage animation process of workshopping and scripting local history. 

Some of these stories were incorporated by local playwright and musician Ian Tamblyn into the play A Bridge to the Past, an hour-long production of vignettes and songs directed by Mary Ellis that toured to nine regional venues, and attracted an audience of over 1,100 people. Ian created two more plays from the material of the River Valley Rendezvous: A River Runs Through Us (2016), and A Summer … A Fair (2017). The latter was also a Theatre Wakefield production (the former was produced by Maison Fairbairn House as part of  River Pride).

For more on the Our Hidden Hills project, see www.ourhiddenhills.ca. 

Playwright and Composer: Ian Tamblyn
Director: Mary Ellis
Stage Manager: Lara Guenette
Performers: Megan Carty, Gabriel Milling, Dylan Phillips, Hannen Sabien, Matt Selic, Sheena Turcotte

Date: October 1 – 4
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Festival

The 3rd annual festival of theatre, dance, community art, workshops.

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Date: November 13, 14, 20, 21, 2015
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Fall Production

By George F. Walker, performed by the Wakefield Players

Date: December 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 2015
Touring Venues: Wakefield United Church; Mill Street Community Space (Chelsea); St. Mikes High School (Low); La Grange (Cantley); Lac Ste. Marie
Description: Special Christmas Event

By Charles Dickens
Adapted by Robert Rooney for Theatre Calgary

Date: January 18
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: TW Presents

Canadian humourist, storyteller, musician and playwright Lorne Elliott brought The Upside Of The Downturn, his show of comedy and music theatre, to Wakefield in January 2014. 

Lorne Elliott

Date: February 21, 2014
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: TW Presents

Date: February 15- March 9, 2014
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Festival

Date: April 4, 5,11,12, 2014
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Wakefield Players

Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre
Written and Directed by Scott V. Hébert-Daly

Date: April 25, 2014
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Special Event

Date: June 13, 14, 15, 2014
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Festival

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Date: July 7 – August 15, 2014
Location: St. Andrews United Church
Description: Summer Camp

A four week, full-time course directed by Robert Rooney and Brenda Rooney for youth aged 11-16 from the region. The young people wrote, filmed, directed and starred in short films that were then presented with plenty of aplomb at the Film Camp Gala.

Date: July – August, 2014
Location: Maison Fairbairn
Description:

Stitches in Time,by John Hardie, combined the local playwright and actor’s creativity with the dramaturgical and directorial skills of local theatre professionals Jennifer Boyes-Manseau and Robert Rooney, to bring the pioneering life of William Fairbairn, a founding father of Wakefield, to the Fairbairn House Heritage Centre.

The play was presented outdoors on the Fairbairn grounds by Theatre Wakefield in English and in French during two separate summers, in 2012 and 2014.

Date: October 17 – 18, 2014
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: TW Presentation

Infinithéâtre presented the remount of its successful play Kafka’s Ape, Guy Sprung’s adaptation of Franz Kafka’s A Report to an Academy, from the original German. This disturbing satire starred Howard Rosenstein as the primate Mr. Redpeter. 

Date: November 21, 22, 28 & 29, 2014
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Wakefield Players

Playwright: David Fennario
Director: Claude Laroche
Producer: Mara McCallum
Stage Manager: Roberta Lloyd
Backstage Manager:  Andrea Rowe
Performers: Rhonda Arsenault, Ginette Fournier, Sarah Dore, Paul Lemelin, Greg McKenzie, Christian Ouellet, Cassandra Simon, Olivier ?
Set Design: David Park

Balconville is a two-act drama, considered to be Canadian playwright David Fennario’s best known play. It was the first bilingual play in Canadian theatre history; about a third of the play’s dialogue is in French.

The story takes place in a neighbourhood of Montréal that was one of Canada’s first industrial slums. It opens with three families and the neighbourhood delivery boy sitting on balconies in the heat of a Montréal summer, forced to listen to election promises in both languages from the broadcast truck of a local politician who is running for re-election. The play explores the socio-economic rumblings of this ethnic melting pot, including the ongoing French/English question as it was perceived at that time.

Date: October – December, 2014
Location: Various Locations
Description:

New Horizons For Seniors A mentoring program collecting and scripting stories from and with local seniors.

Date: January 19, 2013
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: TW Presents

Playwright and Director: Laura Teasdale
Performers: Laura Teasdale and Ralph Steiner

Theatre Wakefield presented Path Productions in this mischievously playful musical that imagines a star-crossed meeting between a young Patsy Cline, just beginning her climb toward becoming the queen of country music, and country’s broken king, Hank Williams, just days before his death. Patsy wants her chance in the spotlight, and Hank wants one last shot at redemption, and they find it in covering vintage songs as powerful as the two personalities who created them.

This was a fundraiser for the Wakefield Youth Sports Pad.

Date: February 10 – March 24, 2013
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Festival

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Date: March 16, 2013
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Wakefield Players

A 30-minute two-person play, this was a Theatre Wakefield playreading, directed by Claude Laroche.

A man lands on a woman after trying to throw himself off a bridge in a botched suicide attempt. On the quiet riverbank, as he attends to her minor injury, he learns that she too was planning to end her life over a broken heart. An argument ensues over the relative seriousness of their respective losses, the nature of existence, and the harmful effects of the essays of biologist Stephen Jay Gould. Will this unexpected collision lead each of them back to the dark place where they started, or will they start anew?

Date: April 5, 6, 12, 13, 2013
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Wakefield Players

Director: Éric Hébert-Daly

Performers: Rhonda Arsenault, Mara McCallum, Scott Hébert-Daly, Andrew Rooney, Jill Rick

Something’s Afoot is an American musical that spoofs detective stories, mainly the works of Agatha Christie, and especially her 1939 detective novel And Then There Were None. The book, music, and lyrics were written by James McDonald, David Vos, and Robert Gerlach, with additional music by Ed Linderman.

The musical involves a group of people who are invited to the lake estate of Lord Dudley Rancour. When the wealthy lord is found dead, it is a race against the clock to find out who is the murderer.

Date: April 19
June 14 – 16, 2013
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: TW Presents, Storytelling

Theatre Wakefield hosting 2 Women Productions.
Performers Jan Andrews and Jennifer Cayley

Date: June 24, 2013
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Workshop

Delivered by Chase Padgett, professional US actor/musician

Date: July – August, 2013
Location: Uniting Church de St-Andrew, Wakefield et divers
Description: Summer Camp

A three week, full-time course directed by Robert Rooney and Brenda Rooney for youth aged 11-16 from the region. The young people wrote, filmed, directed and starred in short films that were then presented with plenty of aplomb at the Film Camp Gala.

Date: August 17, 18, 21, 2013
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Workshop

Theatre Wakefield members trained in stage lighting

Date: October 1, 2013
Location: Black Sheep Inn
Description:

A 30-minute two-person play, this was a Theatre Wakefield playreading, directed by Claude Laroche. That evening it was combined with a musical spoof (Wakefield Idle) in fundraising support of the Wakefield Community Emergency Fund.

Date: October 19, 2013
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: TW Presents

George Bowser and Ricky Blue take satirical aim at life in Quebec and Canada with music, mirth and mockery.

Date: November 16, 2013
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: TW Presents

A Dubious Blessing: Two Old Women Speak Storytelling

Theatre Wakefield hosting 2 Women Productions presentation

Date: November 29, 30 December 6, 7, 2013
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Wakefield Players

True To Life was written by Farrellton playwright John Hardie. In its first draft, it was selected, dramaturged and presented as a staged reading at the Piggyback Fringe Festival in 2012. From there, it was chosen as Theatre Wakefield’s mainstage production in 2013.

Directed by Robert Rooney
Performers: Mara McCallum, Andrew Rooney and others.

Date: December 19, 20, 21, 2013
Location: Eglise unie de St-Andrew
Description: 

An annual favourite, a staged (and costumed) reading.

Date: January 21 – 22, 2012
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Workshop

Theatre Wakefield presentation with Blue Metropolis.

Date: January 22, 2012
Location: Cafe Molo
Description: Workshop

Date: February 25 – April 1, 2012
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Festival

Date: March 31, 2012
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Workshop

Creative Economy Workshop led by Theatre Wakefield.

Date: April 21, 2012
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: TW Presents

Theatre Wakefield presentation with 2women Productions.

Date: May 11, 12 & 18, 19, 2012
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Wakefield Players

Murder mystery dinner theatre. Theatre Wakefield main stage production directed by Scott Herbert-Daly.

Date: May 26-27, 2012
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: One person play written and performed by John Hardie

Fundraiser for La Maison des Collines, the new palliative care hospice for La Pêche

Date: June 14 – 17, 2012
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche & Eglise unie de St-Andrew
Description: Festival

Date: July 25-29 August 1-5, 2012
Location: Maison Fairbairn House
Description: TW Production

Stitches in Time, by John Hardie, combined the local playwright and actor’s creativity with the dramaturgical and directorial skills of local theatre professionals Jennifer Boyes-Manseau and Robert Rooney, to bring the pioneering life of William Fairbairn, a founding father of Wakefield, to the Fairbairn House Heritage Centre.

The play was presented outdoors on the Fairbairn grounds by Theatre Wakefield in English and in French during two separate summers, in 2012 and 2014.

Date: July – August, 2012
Location: Eglise unie de St-Andrew, Wakefield et divers endroits Wakefield
Description: Summer Camp

A three week, full-time course directed by Robert Rooney and Brenda Rooney for youth aged 11-16 from the region. The young people wrote, filmed, directed and starred in short films that were then presented with plenty of aplomb at the Film Camp Gala.

Date: October 2, 2012
Location: BlackSheep
Description: Theatre Wakefield play reading.

Date: October 13 – 14, 2012
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: TW Presents

 Theatre Wakefield presentation of historical play written and performed by Jeff Culbert.

Date: November 23, 24, 30 December 1, 2012
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: TW Productions

Theatre Wakefield mainstage production directed by Claude Laroche.

Date: January – February, 2011
Location: Various Locations
Description: Those interested met weekly to read scripts together. 

Date: February 6-  March 18, 2011
Location: Cafe Molo
Description: Festival

3 shows every Sunday

Date: March – May, 2011
Location: Cafe Molo
Description: Workshop

once a week

Date: May 13 – 14, 2011
Location: Centre Ski Vorlage
Description: TW Productions

Blake Field and the Big Mac Attack (series premiere)

Date: June 24, 25, 26, 2011
Location: Auberge Mouton Noir, Cafe Molo, Kaffe 1870, eglise unie de St-Andrew, Wakefield
Description: Festival

Date: June 25 – 26, 2011
Location: Cafe Laboudi, ecole des langues River Echo
Description: Workshop

with Kurt Fitzpatrick, Mask Performance workshop with David Langlois, Writing Your Life workshop with Alison Wearing

Date: August, 2011
Location: Various Locations
Description: Summer Camp

A three week, full-time course directed by Robert Rooney and Brenda Rooney for youth aged 11-16 in the region. The young people wrote, filmed, directed and starred in short films that were then presented with plenty of aplomb at the Film Camp Gala.

Date: December 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 2011
Location: Centre Wakefield La Pêche
Description: Wakefield Players

Dreamwalker came through Theatre Wakefield’s New Works program, From Page To Stage.

This was the first performance of Theatre Wakefield’s Wakefield Players in the new Centre Wakefield La Pêche.

Date: January 15, 2010 (research)
February 13, 17, 18, 2010 (animation one-day workshops)
Location: Centre des jeunes de Shawville, École St. Michael’s de Low, Centre de formation des adultes, Est Hull
Description: Workshops

Date: February 7-  March 28, 2010
Location: Cafe Molo
Description: Festival

2 shows every Sunday

1.  Date: January – March (weekly)
Location: Centre de loisirs, Wakefield
Description: Lighting Design Workshops

2.  Date: June 26, 27
Location: École des langues River Echo
Description: 
Soundscape Design workshop: Ian Tamblyn
Script Analysis workshop: Jeff Culbert

3.  Date: Sept. 18 – October 3
Location: Cafe Molo
Description: Weekend Workshops
Lighting Design – with Larry Laxdal
Set Design – with Larry Laxdal
Script Analysis workshop – with Jeff Culbert

Date: March 13, 2010
Location: Eglise anglicane, Wakefield, les Écoles Aylmer et Poltimore
Description: 

Canadian Parents for French fundraiser

Date: March 27, 2010
Location: Centre national des Arts (Ottawa)
Description: 

Date: April 28, 2010
Location: Le Hibou Restaurant, Wakefield
Description:

Fundraiser for the United Church of Wakefield

Date: May 15, 2010
Location: Librairie Solstice
Description: 

Date: May 28-29, 2010
Location: Centre Ski Vorlage
Description: Dinner Theatre spoof on Canadian/American Idol

Date: June 25 – 27, 2010
Location: Auberge Mouton Noir, Cafe Molo, Kaffe 1870, eglise unie de St-Andrew, Wakefield
Description: Festival

Date: July – August, 2010
Location: Wakefield United Church, et  la Basse Cete-Nord (Qc)
Description: Summer Camp

A three week, full-time course directed by Robert Rooney and Brenda Rooney for youth aged 11-16 in the region. The young people wrote, filmed, directed and starred in short films that were then presented with plenty of aplomb at the Film Camp Gala.

Date: October 16 – November 11, 2010 (workshops)
Date: November 12-13, 19-20, 2010 (readings)
Location: Café Molo (workshops)
Centre Ski Vorlage (readings)

In 2010, Theatre Wakefield issued its first formal call to the community for “new works.” Local laywrights submitted their plays and the best were selected for participation in a professional dramaturgy process over a three-week period. This resulted in two weekends of four staged readings – these included Dreamwalker by Chelsea artist Ian Tamblyn (which become the main stage production in 2011), and Epiphany by 2017 Siminovitch Theatre Prize Winner Nadia Ross (STO Union).

Date: November – December, 2010
Location: Various locations
Description: 

Date: December 10, 16, 2010
Location: Église unie de St-Andrew, Wakefield; et Église unie de Chelsea
Description: Special Event

2 performances

Date: December 2010
Location: Algonquin College (Ottawa)
Description: Special Event

A Christmas Carol Recording at Algonquin College for TV Production students to experience recording live performance.

Animation Workshop
Date: April 20, 2009
Location: Shawville, École St. Michael’s de Low
Description: Full day workshop

Research Workshops
Dates: November – December, 2009
Location: Shawville, Low, Hull
Description: Workshop

In 2009, Theatre Wakefield received a development grant to research local history and bring it to life through heritage animation. We then conducted three consultations with community educators, artists, and organizers interested in using local history for educational, cultural, or other community development purposes.

The Hidden Hills team developed a “History Animation Template” that outlines the process for taking historical source material and involving community members in creating animated stories from it.

Using source materials gathered from the first three consultations, Theatre Wakefield then field-tested its newly created process in workshops held in Shawville, Low, Hull and Wakefield. A “Live on the Airways” format (made famous by Garrison Keillor’s “Prairie Home Companion” broadcasts on PBS, and Robert Altman’s movie of the same name) was chosen as a practical and accessible means of animating short stories within a short time-frame. Stories were chosen as radio-play skits and songs performed by the workshop participants.

Date: May 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 2009
Location: Centre Ski Vorlage
Description: Wakefield Players Spring Production
Venue: Ski Vorlage, Burnside Road, Wakefield

Fundraiser for the Community Centre Co-op

Playwright: Wendy Lill
Director: Scott Hébert-Daly

Date: June 28 – 30, 2009
Location: Auberge Mouton Noir, Eglise unie de St-Andrew, Wakefield
Description: Festival

13 acts, 26 performances by international artists

Date: June 30, 2009
Location: Various Locations
Description: 

Script Analysis workshop with Jeff Culbert
Front-of-House Management workshop with Brenda Rooney
Contact Improvisation workshop with Jonno Katz

Date: July – August, 2009
Location: Wakefield United Church and Community Centre, Wakefield
Description: Summer Film Camp and Gala

A three week, full-time course directed by Robert Rooney and Brenda Rooney for youth aged 11-16 in the region. The young people wrote, filmed, directed and starred in short films that were then presented with plenty of aplomb at the Film Camp Gala.

Date: November 26, 27, 28 – December 3, 4, 5, 2009
Location: Shawville, Low, Hull
Description:

Possible Worlds is a play written in 1990 by John Mighton. The author, Mighton, is a mathematician and philosopher. His plays tend to meld science, drama and math into one cohesive piece. It is part murder mystery, part science-fiction, and part mathematical philosophy and follows the multiple parallel lives of the main character, George Barber.

Possible Worlds won a Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama in 1992. A film adaptation of the same  name was released in 2000. Directed by Robert Lepage, it garnered wide critical acclaim, won two Genie Awards, and was nominated for a further four.

Date: December 10,11, 2009
Location: Eglise unie de St-Andrew, Wakefield et Chelsea, Eglise unie Wakefield
Description: Special Event

Wakefield Community Emergency Fund fundraiser

Date: February 16, 2008
Location: Auberge Mouton Noir
Description: Play Reading

Goldilocks is on trial for breaking and entering. Will she be found guilty and sent to prison, or will the truth come out? It’s up to Judge Wallabee and some very silly jurors to decide, after hearing testimony from Goldee, the bickering Three Bears, and surprise witness Merwin the Big Bad Wolf, among others…

Date: June 29 – 30, 2008
Location: Auberge Mouton Noir, Eglise unie de St-Andrew, Wakefield
Description: Festival

9 acts, 16 performances by local and international artists

Date: September 27, 2008
Location: Galerie Alice
Description: 

Date: October 18, 21 and Dec. 
Location: Club Cascades, Chelsea; Arena de Low; Chelsea Bibliothèque; Wakefield École des langues River Echo
Description: Workshops

Date: November 25, 2008
Location: Auberge Mouton Noir
Description: Play Reading

Moo premiered in 1988 at Alberta Theatre Projects’ playRites Festival of new plays. It was produced in 1989 at Factory Theatre in Toronto and was nominated for the 1989 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play and won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award in the same year. Since then the play has been produced at professional theatres across Canada and has been mounted by colleges and community theatres.

Date: December 18, 19, 20, 2008
Location: Eglise unie de Wakefield et Chelsea; Ecole St. Michael, Low
Description: Special Event

Wakefield new seniors residences fundraiser

Date: January 20, 2007 and June 16, 2007
Location: Maison MacLaren
Description: Workshops

Date: January 25, 2007
Location: Auberge Mouton Noir
Description: A spoof on Canadian/American Idol

Community Centre Co-op fundraiser

Date: February 21, 2007
Location: Centre de loisirs (Wakefield)
Description: Workshop

Date: June 13, 2007
Location: Auberge Mouton Noir
Description: Play Reading

The Cripple of Inishmaan is a dark comedy by Martin McDonagh who links the story to the real life filming of the documentary  Man of Aran. The play is set on the small Aran Islands community of Inishmaan (Inis Meáin) off the Western Coast of Ireland in 1934.

Date: July 1, 2007
Location: Centre de loisirs (Wakefield)
Description: Canada Day
Satirical spoof based on Canadian/ American Idol

Date: September 21, 22, 2007
Location: Le Moulin de Wakefield
Description: 

Community Centre Co-op fundraiser

Date: November 16, 17 / 23, 24, 2007
Location: Centre Ski Vorlage
Description: 

Community Centre Co-op fundraiser

1. Voice

Given by: Mary Houle (Théâtre Parminou)
Date: January 14, 2006
Location: Club Cascades (Chelsea)
Description: Workshop

2.  Stage Combat

Given by: Natalie Fraser-Purdy
Date: January 28, 2006
Location: Centre de loisirs (Wakefield)
Description: Workshop

3.  Write Direction

Given by: Phil Jenkins
Date: February 1 and March 1
Location: chez Phil (Chelsea)
Description: Workshops

4.  Characterization

Given by: Lisa Twasrdowska
Date: February 11, 2006
Location: Club Cascades (Chelsea)
Description: Workshop

5.  Movement

Given by: Maureen Shea and Amy Schindel
Date: February 25, 2006
Location: Club Cascades (Chelsea)
Description: Workshop

6.  Theatre

Given by: Théâtre Parminou
Date: March 10-12, 14-15, 17-19, 2006
Location: Cascades Club (Chelsea), Shawville, Aylmer
Description: Workshops

Date: February 7, 9, 2006
Location: Aylmer, Auberge Mouton Noir
Description:

An Acre of Time tells the stories of one acre of what is now known as the Lebreton Flats, just west of Parliament Hill in downtown Ottawa. Tracing the land from its geological creation through its Indigenous, French, English and finally Canadian residents, An Acre of Time investigates that single acre as a microcosm of Canadian, and indeed all, history. The play follows a modern surveyor who takes the measure of the acre, and in doing so finds that the many individuals who passed across it come to life as she conducts her survey. In doing so, a tragedy in her own life, the loss of her own daughter to the nearby Ottawa River, is excavated and the surveyor finds both challenges and comforts in the stories of this acre and the people from its history who visit her as she surveys its dimensions.

Date: May 11, 12, 13, 2006
Location: Centre Ski Vorlage
Description: 

Community Centre Co-op fundraiser

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Date: September 20, 2006
Location: Auberge Mouton Noir
Description: Satirical spoof on Canadian/American Idol

Jane Sless fundraiser

Date: September 17, 24, 2006
Location: Le Manoir de Wakefield
Description: 

Wakefield Hospital fundraiser

Date: November 17, 18 / 24, 25, 2006
Location: Centre Ski Vorlage
Description: Wakefield Players Fall Production

Directed by Robert Rooney.

Date: March 7, 2005
Location: Auberge Mouton Noir
Description: 

Wakefield Grannies fundraiser

Date: June 18, 2005
Location: Centre des loisirs (Wakefield)
Description: Workshop given by Louis Rompre

Date: May 6, 7 / 13, 14, 2005
Location: Centre Ski Vorlage, Wakefield

Description: In winter 2002, Theatre Wakefield’s Brenda Rooney approached Sean Butler with the idea of writing a bilingual play — a theatrical experiment that would attempt to reflect two linguistic cultures. Sean began writing of his experience at the 2001 Free Trade Summit in Quebec City and new local playwrights Oren Hercz and Pascal Morin soon joined the team to explore the dramatic potential of the subject. From there, the play took a year to develop as the Wakefield Players gathered to workshop the material and weave the work of the three writers into a coherent whole. With the cast and production team in place, rehearsals started and, in early May of 2005, Cabaret Civil made its triumphant debut.

Written by Sean Butler, Oren Hercz and Pascal Morin
Directed by Robert Rooney
Produced by Kerstin Petersson and Gwen Shea

Date: November 26, 2005
Location: CD Launch at Le Mouton Noir
Description: Songs from Theatre Wakefield’s production of Cabaret Civil performed by l’Orchestre Cabaret Civil

Musical Director and Producer: Alise Marlane
Sound Engineers: Jack Pelletier, Brian Sanderson
Recorded at Studio Pelletier
Mastering: Ian Osborn, Backlash Productions

Cabaret Chanteuse: Anouk Grégoire
Musicians: Brian Sanderson, Jean Maisonneuve, Peter MacGibbon, Alise Marlane, Oren Hercz, Marc Bélanger, Chantal Brideau

Songs:

Cabaret Civil – Words and music by Alise Marlane
Coffee Song – Words and music by Oren Hercz
Never Enough – Words and music by Sean Butler, Alise Marlane
Pays libre – Montage and music by  Peter MacGibbon, Alise Marlane, Brian Sanderson
Tear Gas is Enough – Words and music by Alise Marlane
Un coeur si doux – Words and music by John Hardie
A Simple Recipe – Words and muisic by Alise Marlane
Freedom Train – Words and music by Alise Marlane
La Riviére – Words and music by Alise Marlane
Mouton noir – Words and music  by Alise Marlane
Enough Already – Montage and music by Alise Marlane, Brian Sanderson
Gotta Have Faith – Words and music  by Sean Butler, Alise Marlane

Date: December 13, 2005
Location: Auberge Mouton Noir
Description: 

Sarah Beaudet fundraiser

1.  Stage Managing 

Given by: Kirei Samuel
Date: February 21, 2004
Location: Centre de loisirs (Wakefield)
Description: Workshop

2.  Creating Your Own Performance

Given by: Bryan James
Date: April 17, 2004
Location: Centre de loisirs (Wakefield)
Description: Workshop

3.  Microphone

Given by: Louise Rompre
Date: June 27, 2004
Location: Auberge Mouton Noir, Wakefield
Description: Workshop

Date: April 5, 2004
Location: Auberge Mouton Noir
Description: Playreading by Wakefield Players

A loving husband and wife fight while battling two enormous fish. They fight and fish their way to a hilariously huge misunderstanding.

Date: July 1, 2004
Location: Centre de loisirs, Wakefield
Description:  Canada Day Event

Theatre Wakefield participated in the Canada Day Parade in Wakefield and presented a game show/event  outdoors on the Community Centre grounds.

Date: November 12, 13, 2004
Location: Centre Ski Vorlage
Description: 

Date: November 29, 2004
Location: Auberge Mouton Noir
Description:  Fundraiser for Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders

No further information available.

Date: June 18, 2003
Location: Auberge Mouton Noir
Description: 

A play reading and a fundraiser for Wakefield’s Peace Park.

Date: September 7, 2003
Location: Auberge Mouton Noir
Description: No further information available.

Date: November 21, 22, 2003
Location: Centre Ski Vorlage
Description: Wakefield Players

Playwright: Scott V. Daly
Director: Robert Rooney
Producer: Peter Gillies

Date: October 12, 2002
Location: Centre Ski Vorlage
Description: An original production by the Wakefield Players

Peace Park fundraiser

Date: December 16, 17, 18, 2002
Location: Black Sheep Inn, Wakefield Elementary School
Description: Staged (and costumed) playreading

This Christmas favourite was adapted by Robert Rooney and performed many times over the years.