Theatre
Theatre schedule - printable version
*** Please be advised subject to change ***
The Author Readings featuring Leslie Askwith, Paula Dunning, Jeff Hinich, Mary-Lynn Murphy
Join four incredibly talented authors as they read excerpts from their own works. Each author will share some of their stories during this hour long reading.
Windsor Park Lobby
Saturday August 18, 1:00 pm.
Ticket Price: donation/pay what you can
- Mary-Lynn Murphy’s publications include the novel Finding Grace (Scrivener Press, 2013) and poetry and fiction in several Canadian literary magazines.
Genre: Fiction
Reading from a work in progress titled Shift — a collection of linked stories and novel - Jeff Hinich is a singer/songwriter and author of Waking with Thoreau: Lungs of the Planet and Other Possibilities.
Genre: Creative Storytelling
Reading from Underground Railroad Travelers & Conductors. Set in 1845. - Paula Dunning is an essayist and memoirist whose publications include a book-length memoir, Shifting Currents (Embajadoras Press, 2016), short fiction and non-fiction appearing in several journals, and essays aired on CBC Sunday Edition.
Genre: Memoir
Reading from Shifting Currents or current work in progress. - Leslie Askwith’s publications include a book, Thunderstruck Fiddle (2017), northern Michigan newspaper Homegrown and non-fiction articles and stories in several Michigan magazines and newspapers.
Genre: Non-fiction
Reading from either Thunderstruck Fiddle or a recent magazine essay, Lesson From Dan Pine.
The Author Readings
Patricia Lee “Destiny’s Past”
Join playwright and award-winning author Patricia Lee as she reads excerpts from her book ‘Destiny’s Past (Book 1 Daughters of the Crescent Moon Trilogy)’. The book genre is paranormal romance/suspense for adults.
Windsor Park Lobby
Saturday, August 11th 11:00 a.m.
Ticket Price: donation/pay what you can
Building the Wall
Tell Your Face Productions
Building the Wall by Robert Schenkkan imagines a not too distant future in an America with Donald Trump as president. The rhetoric has consequences especially when turned into policy. Is this now?
Company Name: Tell Your Face Productions
City: Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
Playwright/Author: Robert Schenkkan
Directed by: Spencer Christensen
Cast list: Tomantha Sylvester, Michael Oakes
Ticket Price: $8
Show Length: 90 minutes
Audience:15+
Warnings: some bad language, use of the ‘f’ word
Show Type: political drama – near dystopian future
Wednesday August 15 8:30 p.m.
Thursday August 16, 7:00 p.m.
Friday August 17, 7:45 p.m.
Life is Not a Drag
Murphy Entertainment Inc Facebook
Internationally acclaimed celebrity impersonator, musical theatre performer and comedian Timothy Murphy reflects on his career as a drag artist while transforming himself into his signature character—the legendary Joan Rivers—before the audience’s eyes.
Company: TMurphy Entertainment Inc
City: SSM, ON
Playwright: Timothy Murphy
Directed by: Timothy Murphy
Featuring: Timothy Murphy
Ticket Price: $10
Show Length: 90 minutes
Audience: 14+
Warnings: Coarse language, mature themes
Show Type: Comedy with serious undertones (addiction, mental illness)
Friday August 10, 8:45 p.m.
Sunday August 12, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday August 18, 7:30 p.m.
Moments in Algoma
Theatre in Motion Website
Theatre based on real local history! In September of 1918 founding members of the Group of Seven made their first trip into the Northern Ontario bush where they found the inspiration for a new style in Canadian art. This one man show incorporates actual letters and reflections of that time in Algoma
Company Name: Theatre in Motion
City: Sault Ste. Marie, ON
Playwright: W.A. Hamilton
Directed by: Sandra Forsell
Cast list: Performed by Rob McDowell Technical Direction by Rob Rock
Ticket Price: $12
Show Length: 30 minutes
Audience: 14+
Warnings: Contains Lawren Harris’ passionate reflections on the meaning of Art with a capital A
Show Type: Drama
Thursday, August 16, 5:30 p.m.
Moss Park
North Road Theatre Website
Tina and Bobby had a baby when they were still in their teens, but Bobby hasn’t been able to hold a job long enough to make things work. And now, Tina is pregnant again. Can she afford to keep the baby, without turning to a life of crime? Desperate comedy.
Company: North Road Theatre
City: Sudbury, ON
Playwright: George F Walker
Directed by: Bill Lane
Featuring: Kaitlyn Stewart, Michael Sheldon
Show Type: Comedy
Ticket Price: $12
Show Length: 75 minutes
Audience: suitable for 14+
Warnings: some coarse language
Friday August 10, 8:30 p.m.
Saturday August 11, 6:45 p.m.
Sunday August 12, 3:30 p.m.
Placebo Effect, An Evening of Magic & Illusion
Ryan McFarling Illusionist Website
Mentalist, Illusionist & Trickster. Ryan`s innovative style and engaging personality gives him unrestricted access to the mind of his audience. Part mind reading, part illusion, part shenanigans…the only stage show where the audience plays the largest part!
Company: Ryan McFarling Illusionist
City: SSM, ON
Playwright: Ryan McFarling
Directed by: Tim Murphy
Featuring: Ryan McFarling
Ticket Price: $12
Show Length: 45 minutes
Audience: General Entertainment, not suitable for children under 12
Warnings: This isn’t your flashy show-girls in glittery dresses kind of magic show. Depending on the crowd mix, the magic may be more cerebral than visual.
Show Type: magical improv with a twist
Friday August 10, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday August 11, 5:30 p.m.
Sunday August 12, 7:00 p.m.
Friday August 17, 9:45 p.m.
Saturday August 18 3 p.m.
Sunday August 19, 8:30 p.m.
Story time with Grup
Sault Ste. Maire Public Library Mother Goose Storytime takeover! Grup the wanderer will bring a magical, music filled story time to kids of all ages.
Friday August 17, 10am
Street ♥
Zaagi’idiwin
Indigenous people, in every Canadian city, represent a disproportionate amount of those living on the street. Street ♥ shares truths about why that is and offers a space for audiences to look through perceived stereotypes about the people who live on the streets in their city, to see the heart within.
Company: Zaagi’idwin
City: Sudbury, ON
Playwright: Sarah Gartshore
Directed by: Sarah Gartshore & Bill Sanders
Featuring: Lois Apaquash, Bill Sanders, Trudy Jones, Sarah Gartshore
Ticket Price: $10
Show Length: 40 minutes
Audience: mature content 18+
Warnings: contains explicit language and content that may be offensive to white fragility
Show Type: a romp through the ugly, funny truth
Friday August 10, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday August 11, 6:00 p.m.
Sunday August 12, 2:00 p.m.
Wednesday August 15 7p.m.
Thursday August 16 9p.m.
Friday August 17 6:30p.m.
Underneath the Lintel (Or the Mystery of the
Abandoned Trousers)
Pat O’Brien Facebook
Multi-award winning Fringe show across Canada and US! An eccentric librarian finds a book 123 Years overdue an embarks on a worldwide quest to apprehend the borrower. Voted: “Best Solo Show: San Diego, Minnesota, and London Fringe Festival! “It doesn’t get any better that this, folks!” Canadian Broadcasting Company
Company: Pat O’Brien
City: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Playwright: Glen Berger
Directed by: Pat O’Brien
Featuring: Pat O’Brien
Ticket Price: $12
Show Length: 70 minutes
Audience: general entertainment but the material is best suited for those 15 and up
Show Type: Comedy/Drama
Friday August 10, 5:30 p.m.
Saturday August 11, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday August 12, 6:00 p.m.
Wakey Wakey
LSSU Theatre Students Michaela Titus and Michael Oakes perform Wakey, Wakey by Will Eno. In this moving piece about a man who knows he is about to die, Eno’s play asks us to consider how we look at our own mortality and instead of “last words” - remember our first.
Company Name: LSSU Student Theatre
City: Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
Ticket Price: $8
Show length: 70 minutes
Sunday August 19, 2:00 p.m.
Why Aren’t You Happy?
Description: In the near future America elects OZ.BAT, an artificially intelligent computer program, as President. After leading a failed revolt, Gavin Scott finds himself in a session with an artificially intelligent therapist. He revisits memories of preOZ America and explores his love for the archaic practice of “Rock N’ Roll.”
Company Name: Bird on Stage Productions - Facebook
City/Prov/Country: North Bay, ON
Playwright/Author: Garrett M. Ryan
Directed By: J.Brody Hawkins
Cast List: Tim Collins-Squire, Kylie-Anne Grube
Ticket Price: $10
Show Length: 60 minutes
Audience: For mature audiences and immature rockers only (not suitable for children under 12)
Warnings: coarse language, violence, smoke, loud noises, flashing lights and excessive rebellion
Show Type: Dystopian sci-fi homage to Rock n’ Roll
Thursday August 9, 7:00 p.m.
Friday August 10, 5:30 p.m.
Saturday August 11, 8:45 p.m.
Sunday August 12 1pm
The Writer’s Den
Theatre in Motion Website
Workshop readings of 3 new works raw and unedited. A new script will be tackled at each show so take in all 3! SLANT BOARDS: It’s absurd. PATSY AND JOE: It’s mysterious and incomplete. THE PIZZA QUEEN: It’s based on truth. Witness the role of dramaturgy in The Writer’s Den.
Company: Theatre in Motion
City: SSM, ON
Playwright: W.A. Hamilton
Directed by: the Audience!
Featuring: a company of guest readers from the Sault and area theatre community
Ticket Price: $10
Show Length: 60 minutes
Audience: 14+ unless our child has expressed an interest in becoming a writer and you wish to discourage them from a life of poverty and looming deadlines
Warnings: words, words, and more words
Friday August 17 8pm
Saturday August 18 6pm
Sunday August 19 7pm
Childrens Shows
See also Kids Fringe for more events and activities for children . . .
Theatre schedule - printable version
*** Please be advised subject to change ***
Alice in Wonderland – Deconstructed
Jenna Konieczny
Come down the rabbit-hole with Alice for a fun and
interactive hour of stories and songs.
45 mins
Friday August 10, 10:00 a.m.
Saturday August 11, 2:00 p.m.
Sault Ste. Marie Museum
Ticket Price: donation/pay what you can
Stories and Creation with author Joanne Robertson
Join award-winning author Joanne Robertson for an interactive hour of stories and creation. Joanne Robertson will be reading her book ‘The Water Walker’, teaching language learning, traditional song sharing and art creation.
Saturday August 18, 11:00 a.m.
Sault Ste. Marie Museum
Ticket Price: donation/pay what you can
Story time with Grup
Mother Goose Storytime takeover! Grup the
wanderer will bring a magical, music filled story time
to kids of all ages.
Friday August 17, 10:00 am
Sault Ste. Maire Public Library
Ticket Price: donation/pay what you can