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"Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii"
November 14-16, 2008
Childs Auditorium, Deep River
written by Allan Stratton
directed by Max Ryan
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CAST:
Doris Chisholm - Leena Philipose
Edgar Chisholm - Jeremy Whitlock
Vivien Bliss - Phyllis Heeney
Bill Scant - Ike Dimayuga
Peggy Scant - Vanessa Sears
Peter Prior - Kyle Wilkes
Betty Scant - Pat Hoelke
Review of the play, published in the North Renfrew Times
Cast Photos
Production Photos
Rehearsal Photos
Program (1.5 MB pdf)
Oct. 22 Article in North Renfrew Times
Cast and Crew listing from the program:
Proceeds from this production supported the
Dustin Houde Memorial School Building Project
as part of Free the Children.Click here for a special note from the Producer.
The Players also hosted a charity concert matinee on Saturday, Nov 15, with all proceeds going to the Dustin Houde fund - for info click here.
Farce in two acts by Allan Stratton premiered at Phoenix Theatre, Toronto, October, 1980, directed by Stephen Katz, set by Douglas MacLean, costumes by Miro Kinch, lighting by Robert Thomson, stage management by Anne Roper, featuring Mignon Elkins, Claude Bede, Miriam Newhouse, Kenneth Wickes, Alison Lawrence, Scott Dickson and Araby Lockhart. Subsequently presented at Pennsylvania Stage Company, Allentown, March 1982 (featuring Georgia Engel), and at Theatre-in-the-Park, New York, 1982. Subsequently, in Canada, at New West Theatre and the Stephenville Festival (among 200 productions across the country, internationally and to this day).
Doris, an advice columnist, and her husband Edgar live in a tidy upper-middle-class home and their lives are about to be put through utter chaos. Edgar is planning to cheat on his wife with the flaky Harlequin Romance-novelist, Vivien (who, throughout the play, will madly record notes for her next novel). Suddenly the house is full of people who were vague acquaintances before the many gigantic revelations which pepper the play. There are an insane number of coincidences involving lost children, mistaken identity and non-sequiturs (which turn out to be not so "non-" after all). Simply, every time the doorbell rings, disaster walks in.
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