Give the gift of theatre this holiday season
January 20, 21, 22 / 26, 27, 28, 29 / February 2, 3, 4 at
the Peterborough Theatre Guild
…still uncomfortably relevant today.
FEBRUARY 3: Limited audience performance with covid protocols
Please email or call the box office (705-745-4211) to order tickets.
Season at-a-glance
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Constellations
(A Staged Reading)
by Nick Payne
September 16, 17, 18m
7:30 pm
m = 2:00 pm Matinee performance
This spellbinding, romantic journey begins with a simple encounter between a man and a woman. But what happens next defies the boundaries of the world we think we know—delving into the infinite possibilities of their relationship and raising questions about the difference between choice and destiny.
Directed by Bea Quarrie, this play reading features Dan Duran & Lisa Devan.
Tickets: $10
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Our Place
by Terry Gabbard
October 14, 15, 16m / 20, 21, 22, 23m
7:30 pm
m = 2:00 pm Matinee performance
The unassuming location of a dock extending out onto a small lake serves as the backdrop for five different stories. The entire ensemble gathers on the dock together for the final scene. In a poetic epilogue, they all discover the true meaning of Our Place—both comedic and tragic.
Tickets: $15.00
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Rumors
by Neil Simon
November 4, 5, 6m / 10, 11, 12, 13m / 17, 18, 19
7:30 pm
m = 2:00 pm Matinee performance
At a large, tastefully renovated house in the Palisades, the Deputy Mayor of New York has just shot himself. Though only a flesh wound, four couples are about to experience an evening of unexpected chaos. Gathering for their tenth wedding anniversary, the host lies bleeding in the other room, and his wife is nowhere in sight. His lawyer, Ken, and wife, Chris, must get “the story” straight before the other guests arrive. As the confusions and mis-communications mount, the evening spins off into classic farcical hilarity.
Tickets:
Adult: $25.00
Seniors $22.00
Students: $15.00
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The Little Prince
Based on the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
December 2, 3m, 4m / 6, 7, 8, 9, 10m
7:00 pm
m = 1:00 pm Matinee performance
“A multilayered tale that awakens the child tucked inside all of us.”
The Little Prince may have returned to his own tiny planet to tend his Rose and look after his Sheep, but for a short, enchanted time he returns to us and comes alive on stage. This play/musical tells the story of a world-weary and disenchanted Aviator whose sputtering plane strands him in the Sahara Desert and a mysterious, regal “little man” who appears and asks him to “Please, sir, draw me a sheep.”
DECEMBER 9: Limited audience performance with covid protocols
Please call the box office (705-745-4211) to order tickets.
Tickets: $10
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The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
January 20, 21, 22m / 26, 27, 28, 29m / February 2, 3, 4
7:30 pm
m = 2:00 pm Matinee performance
The Crucible is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692–93. Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists.
FEBRUARY 3: Limited audience performance with covid protocols
Please email or call the box office (705-745-4211) to order tickets.
Tickets:
Adult: $25.00
Seniors $22.00
Students: $15.00
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Gibson & Sons
by Kristen Da Silva
February 24, 25, 26m / March 2, 3, 4, 5m / 9, 10, 11
7:30 pm
m = 2:00 pm Matinee performance
Our February production, Gibson and Sons is an uproarious comedy to help you battle the mid-winter blahs. Written by acclaimed Canadian playwright Kristen Da Silva, this is a production you don’t want to miss!
Serious competition in their exclusive business is the last thing Gibson Funeral Services needs in their small town. Besides that, proprietor Harry Gibson is lonely and looking for a soulmate, even if he has to import one from Russia. Of course, business and life don’t go as planned for Harry, his dad and brother and fun ensues, abetted by a demonic squirrel.
Featuring some of Peterborough’s best comic actors, our play is directed by Jerry Allen (Annie, The Cripple of Inishmann, Buddy Holly) and produced by Pat Hooper (Annie, Cats).
MARCH 9: Limited audience performance with covid protocols
Please email or call the box office (705-745-4211) to order tickets.
Tickets:
Adult: $25.00
Seniors $22.00
Students: $15.00
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Something Rotten!
by Karey Kirkpatrick & John O’Farrell
April 28, 29, 30m / May 4, 5, 6, 7m / 11, 12, 13
7:30 pm
m = 2:00 pm Matinee performance
Set in 1595, the story follows the Bottom brothers, Nick and Nigel, who struggle to find success in the theatrical world as they compete with the wild popularity of their contemporary William Shakespeare.
Tickets:
Adult: $32.00
Seniors $28.00
Students: $20.00
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The Long Weekend
by Norm Foster
July 5, 6, 7, 8, 9m / 12, 13, 14, 15m, 15
7:30 pm
m = 2:00 pm Matinee performance
The truth and lies of a friendship come to the surface during a weekend visit between two couples. There are plenty of surprises along the way in this comedy of manners. Writing in the Hamilton Spectator, Gary Smith described the play as having “…just enough sex, just enough smart talk, just enough preposterous plot twists to keep you titillated.”
Tickets:
Adult: $25.00
Seniors $22.00
Students: $15.00
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