Beyond the Stage
Comedy
A Bench in the Sun
by Ron Clark
Sunday, October 6, 2024 - 2:00 PM
Peterborough Theatre Guild, Main Stage
Harold and Burt, long-time friends, live in a retirement home and spend their days on a bench in the garden bickering. A once famous actress has just moved in, giving them something new to argue over. When they learn that the home is about to be sold and they will have to find a new residence, the three join forces to prevent this upsetting development.
Tragicomedy
August: Osage County
by Tracy Letts
Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 2:00 PM
Peterborough Theatre Guild, Main Stage
A vanished father. A pill-popping mother. Three sisters harboring shady little secrets. When the large Weston family unexpectedly reunites after Dad disappears, their Oklahoman family homestead explodes in a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets. Mix in Violet, the drugged-up, scathingly acidic matriarch, and you’ve got a major play that unflinchingly—and uproariously—exposes the dark side of the Midwestern American family.
COMEDY
Calendar
Girls
by Tim Firth
Sunday, February 9, 2025 -
2:00 PM
Peterborough Theatre Guild, Main Stage
When Annie's husband John dies of leukemia, she and best friend Chris resolve to raise money for a new settee in the local hospital waiting room. They manage to persuade four fellow Women's Institute members to pose nude with them for an "alternative" calendar, with a little help from hospital porter and amateur photographer Lawrence. The news of the women's charitable venture spreads like wildfire, and hordes of press soon descend on the small village of Knapeley in the Yorkshire Dales. The calendar is a success, but Chris and Annie's friendship is put to the test under the strain of their newfound fame.
Based on the true story of eleven WI members who posed nude for a calendar to raise money for the Leukaemia Research Fund, Calendar Girls opened at the Chichester Festival Theatre and has since become the fastest-selling play in British theatre history.
DRAMA
Third
by Wendy Wasserstein
Sunday, March 2, 2025 - 2:00 PM
Peterborough Theatre Guild, Main Stage
His name is Woodson Bull III, but you can call him “Third.” And Professor Laurie Jameson is disinclined to like his jockish, jingoistic attitude. He is, as she puts it, “a walking red state.” Believing that Third’s sophisticated essay on King Lear could not possibly have been written by such a specimen, Professor Jameson reports his plagiarism to the college’s Committee of Academic Standards. But is Jameson’s accusation justified? Or is she casting Third as the villain in her own struggle with her relationships, her age and the increasingly polarized political environment?
Bedroom Comedy
Home, I’m Darling
by Laura Wade
April 6, 2025 - 2:00 PM
Peterborough Theatre Guild, Main Stage
How happily married are the happily married? Home, I'm Darling is a bedroom comedy about sex, cake and the quest to be the perfect 1950s housewife. Judy has Johnny's slippers waiting for him when he arrives home from work, the kitchen's clean, the rooms are aired...yet this is not the 1950s, but a 21st-century 'arrangement' agreed between the two of them. With clothes, furniture and a (faulty) fridge from the 1950s, Judy and Johnny try to 'live the dream', with specific roles and a perfectly ordered life.
TBA
Pugwash
by Vern Thiessen
Sunday, May 11, 2025 - 2:00 PM
Peterborough Theatre Guild, Main Stage
1957. Barely a decade after the first use of atomic bombs, the world is divided and fearful of the real threat of nuclear weaponry. In an effort to understand the devastating effects of radiation, leading scientists and academics—world-renowned “Thinkers”—are invited to a conference in the small town of Pugwash, Nova Scotia.
Two local children, Conni and Jamie, take interest in some of the Thinkers, who are humbled by their innocent welcome. But a spy disguised as a reporter has conned Jamie for information to use against the Thinkers, putting the entire conference—and the town of Pugwash—at risk.
TBA
Staged Reading #7
To be announced soon
Sunday, June 1, 2025 - 2:00 PM
Peterborough Theatre Guild, Main Stage