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THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE THEATRE ARTS GUILD THE POND PLAYHOUSE 6 PARKHILL RD. HALIFAX NS [email protected] Next at TAG: Sept. 20 - Oct. 6 The Tony award winning playwright ( The THEATRE ARTS GUILD proudly presents 1998, God of Carnage 2009,) has delivered another The 2009 Tony Award™ Winning Caustic Adult Comedy riveting production which Director, Michele Moore best describes as a caustic adult comedy. In the ninety minute uninterrupted play, the audience watches as four smug, upper middle class individuals are slowly stripped of their veneer facades leaving only their raw characters. The subjects are two sets of parents whose sons have had an altercation in Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill Park that has left one of the boys injured. The parents decide to deal with this dispute as civilized individuals and come together to discuss how to best solve this quarrel. As the conversation evolves, the audience is privy to the Written by Yasmina Reza September 20 to subtle changing of emotions and alliances within the Translation by October 6, 2012 quartet. In God of Carnage, actors Mike Taylor, Ellen Directed by Michele Moore THE POND PLAYHOUSE Oldford, Frank MacLean and Stephanie Mason, take Produced by Sandra Witherbee 6 PAR KHI LL ROAD (OFF PURCELL’S COVE ROAD) on roles that allow them to rip the stuffing out of one HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA another, stomp on their own vanity and have the time of their lives. Warning: Coarse Language Which May Be Offensive to S om e Warning: coarse language may be offensive to some. Presented with the kind permission of Dramatists Play Service Inc. www.dramatists.com

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August/September 2012 CONTACT Community Another season winds down at areas where people can become Theatre Arts Guild; number Eighty- involved. Not everyone wants to act Notes One to be exact. Wow! What but they may be interested in lighting a milestone and what a way to or sets. It’s a great place to meet Dartmouth Players presents bring it to a close with The Drowsy new people, learn new skills and/ The Best Little Whorehouse Chaperone; a complete sell out. or share old ones. Drop by, phone in Texas . This award winning A huge thank you goes out to the or email us if you are interested in musical recounts the good times tremendously talented cast and volunteering. and the demise of the Chicken hardworking crew. The show was We just launched our new season Ranch, known since the 1850s seen by many who had never for 2012-2013. With the variety of as one of the better pleasure attended the theatre before and plays selected, there will be lots of palaces in all of Texas. The show commented they will return for opportunities for people to become is scheduled to run in Nov. 7-25, future productions. involved. And for those who just 2012. Call 465-PLAY or visit At Theatre Arts Guild we strive want to come and see a show, you www.dartmouthplayers.ns.ca to bring excellent theatre to HRM won’t be disappointed. For more for more information. but we also aim to be a part of information on our new season or Bedford Players presents the community of Jollimore. We any other area of the theatre, visit Move Over Mrs. Markham by want to send a special thank you our website www.tagtheatre.com or Ray Cooney and John Chapman. to our neighbours who have been follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Directed by Robin Saywood the exceptional. We hope to continue It’s exciting to be part of TAG as show follows a hectic an hilarous this cordial relationship. Please feel it continues to grow. The lobby is evening when different sets of free to stop by for a visit. now complete with new flooring hopeful lovers all converge on This past season we offered four and we are working on a new air the bedroom of the Markhams’ free workshops highlighting various flow system for the theatre. Future supposedly empty flat. The show aspects of the theatre that people projects involving dressing rooms, a runs Oct. 25 - Nov. 10, 2012. Call felt they wanted to know more scene shop and storage areas remain 832-3300 for tickets and visit about. We hope this helped people on our wish list. TAG is definitely an www.bedfordplayers.ns.ca for get a better understanding of the amazing place with many fabulous more information. theatre because it isn’t as scary as volunteers that make it all happen. it might seem. We are a community ~ Angela Butler, President theatre with a broad spectrum of Theatre Arts Guild Annual General Meeting

TAG’s final The Theatre Arts Guild Annual production of General Meeting will be held in the 2011-2012 Gratwick Hall, Pond Playhouse, season was a big 6 Parkhill Road, Halifax, N.S. on success. The Drowsy Monday, September 10, 2012 at Chaperone played to 7:30 PM. sold out audiences All members in good standing every night! are invited to attend the AGM. Photo: Rehearsal fun The current Board will present on the set with Mike annual reports including the Chandler [ Feldzieg ] and financial statements. Elections Karen Myatt [ Janet ] will take place for the 2012- vamping it up. 2013 Board .

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Theatre Arts Guild AUDITION CALL 2012-13 Season Camelot the Panto Join us at the Pond Playhouse for TAG’s 2012-13 Keeping with tradition, Camelot the Panto is full of Season. Mark your calendars today! music, laughter and fun. There is magic and mayhem in this mixed up tale of seeking vengeance and finding true God of Carnage ( Sep. 20 - Oct. 6, 2012) This popular love!. Directed by Angela Butler with musical direction Broadway play by French playwright Yasmina Reza by Bunny Shore, choreography by Melanie Abramson, weaves a clever and witty story about two couples and produced by Charles Salmon, Camelot the Panto trying to resolve a problem in a civilized fashion. Add will run Nov. 29 - Dec. 15, 2012 (14 performances a little booze and soon tensions are running high, including 5 matinees). leading to a funny and thought-provoking war of Audition Dates & Times: words. Directed by Michele Moore. Sun. August 26, 2012, 1-5 p.m. Camelot, the Panto (Nov. 29 - Dec. 15, 2012) This Mon. August 27, 2012, 7-10 p.m. hilarious comic adventure, written by UK playwright Ben Crocker, takes you to a faraway place with Location: knights, damsels, and a bear. Get ready to cheer and Pond Playhouse, 6 Parkhill Rd. jeer! Reserve your tickets early because our popular (off the Purcell’s Cove Rd.) holiday pantomime always sells out fast! Directed by Cast of Characters Required: Male and female roles, Angela Butler. ages 15 to 99, for a large cast of characters. Please The Death of Me/My Narrator (Feb. 14- Mar. 2, visit www.tagtheatre.com for a complete description 2013) Mixing “true to life” with “unbelievable” is of the characters. what Canadian playwright Norm Foster does best; Auditions are an open call. There will be a cold read and deliver laughs! There is no better way to beat the from the script. Please prepare a song of your choice February blues. You’ll leave the theatre feeling better (a capella). No appointments. because you laughed and learned something about For more information please phone the director humanity, all at the same time. Directed by Frank Angela Butler at 866-0612 or email her at MacLean. [email protected]. (Apr. 18 - May 4, 2013) Written by and loved by audiences all over the world, this classic is a rich costume drama, set in the time of King Henry VIII. This well-loved Congratulations to Donna Bonnelly of Dartmouth play explores moral issues of silence and consent, still the winner of the Drowsy Chaperone Door Prize drawn relevant today. Directed by Gisela O’Brien. after the closing show. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Photo: (June 20 - July 6, 2013) This fun and innovative Actress musical, fresh from Broadway, has played all over the Lyndsay world. Joining the cast of nine, are willing audience Anderson, volunteers, making each performance unique and who played making Spelling Bee a delightful coda to our 2012- Kitty, the 2013 season. Music and lyrics by William Finn, book chorus girl by Rachel Sheinkin, conceived by Rebecca Feldman with the and directed by Jolene Pattison. mind reading act, tries to guess the Want to Volunteer? lucky winner before [email protected] making the draw.

August/September 2012 CONTACT TAKING THE MICRO VIEW – YASMINA REZA AND HER WORK Expanding Your Theatre Vocabulary – the 43rd in a continuing series...

‘The theatre has a thousand the audience’s interest throughout her credit, that is quite the trophy faces,’ I wrote recently and here the entire piece. A single set list! we are, for the 82nd time in the means the clever use of the set Yasmina Reza has been fortunate history of this organization, about as an extension of the action, and in working with Christopher to experience a fresh gamut of a performance time of ninety Hampton on the English versions characters, settings and stories minutes implies some work needs of her plays. (If you are confused which we hope will bring you to be done in finding the right pace by the name, she is French, living pleasure during our 2012/2013 for the dialogue. There is, however, in for most of her life, with a Season. ample that Ms. Reza is rising mother who was Hungarian and a Some playwrights need to to these challenges quite nicely! father born in Iran). God of Carnage establish a large framework before however was first presented in they begin. Yasmina Reza however, German in Zurich in 2006, almost takes the micro view - a small two years before its French debut. number of characters, a single set, God of Carnage won a Tony Award That I think brings us an insight into action which is continuous. (God for Best Comedy in 2009, with an the nature of the dramatist. To Reza, of Carnage has four characters. Olivier Award in London (for Best the nationality of her characters is Two Gentlemen of Verona, by New Comedy) the same year. Ms. not of concern, but their humanity contrast, which is Shakespeare’s Reza’s first play, Conversations after and their confrontation with smallest cast, has fourteen, plus the a Burial (1987) won the French life’s overwhelming, impressive, provision for ‘citizens’). equivalent of those awards for Best mediocre, sometimes downright From an artistic point of view, Author. Art (1995), perhaps her foolish challenges. there are problems with choosing best-known work, gained the prize Join us (September 20 - October to work on a smaller scale. also in 1995, along with Olivier and 6) for TAG’s first presentation by Fewer characters means a better Evening Standard Awards in Britain this acclaimed and much decorated developed set of characters, born and a . For writer. someone with only seven plays to of the necessity of maintaining ~ Judy Reade

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