PineRidge Arts Council
Backwoods Players – 2010 Season
Pickering Museum Village 2010 Event Line-Up
Please go to Pickering Museum Village Foundation's site
or City of Pickering for details.
Distant Shores The Extraordinary War Brides
May 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15 | 8:00 pm. and May 9, 16 | 2:00 pm
A story woven from actual stories of
Pickering area war brides.
These women, who left family and
everything familiar to follow love thousands of miles to a
strange country, don’t think their stories are special.
This poignant and funny one act play tells an extraordinarily
different story.
905 683 8401
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Backwoods’ newest
writing team is pleased to announce a brand new script
for this summer’s Whodunit?. This year’s
answer to this annual question, is “Don’t
Say Macbeth!”
Collectively referred to as
the ‘Wyrd Sisters’, the team consists of
Karen Aiken, Mary Delaney, Julie Oakes and Angela
Steyn, all seasoned script-writers who have thoroughly
enjoyed their coven meetings, er, script writing
sessions over the winter. All four are PMV volunteers
and two (Angela and Mary) are also education staff.
Between them, they have also contributed to the writing
of “A Spirit Walk”, “A
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Wolf’s Tale”,
“Mutton Veiled as Lamb” and “The Chickens
Come Home to Roost”.
The name, ‘Wyrd
Sisters’, pays homage to the witches in
“Macbeth”, which forms the basis of their
first collaboration. If you pronounce it as you would
‘Byrd’, the play on words is self-evident.
Their next project will be
based on research gleaned at a recent workshop at
Parkwood Estate in Oshawa. The Sisters will reunite to
prepare a script for Backwoods Players’ first
person performance at the hugely popular
“Basement Tour” in October.
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