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The King's Town Players take on The Odd Couple, Female Version

Written on January 28, 2020. Posted in Arts.

With its raunchy comedy and themes of dysfunctional friendship, The Odd Couple, Female Version delights audience. The King’s Town Players’ own production of The Odd Couple opened at the Kingston Yacht Club on Jan. 23,and will be playing every weekend until Feb. 8. The Odd Couple, Female Version tells...

The King’s Town Players present The Great Gatsby

Written on April 4, 2019. Posted in Arts, Theatre.

In their debut performance of The Great Gatsby at the Domino Theatre on March 27, the King’s Town players took the audience back to prohibition, flapper glamour, and the roaring twenties. For fans of Scott F. Fitzgerald’s novel, and every subsequent Gatsby movie ever made, The King’s Town Players’...

Play relives Vimy Ridge

Written on September 28, 2018. Posted in Arts, Theatre.

In Vimy, the character can’t forget the World War I battle they survived—their haunted memories are “all stuck in here.” Running from Sept. 26-29 and Oct. 3-6, Vimy is The King’s Town Players’ newest show. Directed by Chris McKinnon, the play brings playwright Vern Thiessen’s epic exploration of trauma...

Les Belles-Soeurs brings a Quebecois revolution to the Baby Grand

Written on October 19, 2017. Posted in Arts.

One kitchen is all playwright Michel Tremblay needs to show the daily struggles working-class French Canadian women faced in the 1960s. This kitchen is the only set in the two acts of Tremblay’s Les Belles-Soeurs belonging to Germaine Lauzon, a Montreal housemaid who’s won a million stamps given...

Busy stage can’t deter narrative

Written on March 28, 2014. Posted in Arts.

As a 90-year-old woman whose days are numbered, Mrs. Shipley remembers a life lived in obstinate pride and loss. Based on Margaret Laurence’s novel, The Stone Angel by Canadian playwright James W. Nichol is the story of Hagar Currie Shipley. Set in the fictitious town of Manawaka, Manitoba, the story...

King’s Town Players show their Underpants

Written on January 31, 2014. Posted in Arts.

What would you do if your underpants fell down in public? In King’s Town Players’ latest production The Underpants, that’s the situation housewife Louise finds herself in. One moment, she’s attending a public parade, and the next, her white bloomers are around her ankles. Her accident inadvertently...

Caught in the crossfire

Written on October 4, 2013. Posted in Arts.

Like a Quentin Tarantino film but shorter, Glengarry Glen Ross is a play that comes complete with strong characters, gritty and perfectly timed storytelling and, of course, extensive profanity. Written by David Mamet, the King’s Town Players production features the lives of four Chicago real estate...

Crawling corpses too close for comfort

Written on October 12, 2012. Posted in Arts.

Bloody handprints grab at railings; scuffmarks colour doors grey. In a way, the bare set forewarns us of the apocalyptic tale to come. Night of the Living Dead, originally a 1968 feature film adapted for stage, is in its third production by King’s Town Players. The show makes its first impressions...

Transient theatre

Written on October 5, 2012. Posted in Arts.

It’s not every day I catch my religious studies professor behind a bookshelf at the library. Playing the part of a neurotic book hoarder, I was surprised to see my normally matter-of-fact, stern professor in a comedic play. Take a walk into the Kingston Public Library central branch and you might...

Dog problems

Written on January 13, 2012. Posted in Arts.

A marriage doesn’t usually breakdown over a pet. But King’s Town Players’ delightful rendition of Sylvia shows how a stray dog “chews a hole in a 22-year-old marriage.” The modern day romance explores the challenges faced by Greg and Kate, a middle-aged couple trying to adjust to life without children....

Flesh-eating and fear-mongering

Written on October 25, 2011. Posted in Arts.

Seven strangers locked in a Pennsylvania farmhouse fight off a pack of flesh-eating zombies in King’s Town Players remake of the 1968 movie, Night of the Living Dead. It’s the production company’s second year putting on the play, after director Clayton Garrett felt last year’s production didn’t live...

Lady and a vamp

Written on September 13, 2011. Posted in Arts.

Resist the urge to whisper questions to your neighbour during The Mystery of Irma Vep, as constant confusion is as much a part of the production as humour and playfulness. Despite the unexplained forays from Victorian mansions to ancient Egypt, the King’s Town Players’ production of The Mystery of...

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The King's Town Players take on The Odd Couple, Female Version

The King’s Town Players present The Great Gatsby

Play relives Vimy Ridge

Les Belles-Soeurs brings a Quebecois revolution to the Baby Grand

Busy stage can’t deter narrative

King’s Town Players show their Underpants

Caught in the crossfire

Crawling corpses too close for comfort

Transient theatre

Dog problems

Flesh-eating and fear-mongering

Lady and a vamp

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