Dinner Theatre: Norm Foster’s "Looking"

6:30 Cocktails 7:00 Dinner 8:00 Show Skeena Golf & Country Club
January 25, 26;
February 1, 2, 8, 9; 14, 15, 16, 2008
Directed by Patrick McIntyre & Diana Braathen

Tickets $35 at Uniglobe Courtesy Travel. Assigned seating.

Canada’s most popular playwright has done it again!

Val’s an OR nurse, Andy’s in the storage business, Nina’s a police officer and Matt’s a radio morning show host. They’re middle-aged, single and looking. Val agrees to meet Andy after answering his personal ad in the newspaper. Nina and Matt are coaxed into joining their friends for support.

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"A Lie of the Mind" has been cast

Director Marianne Brorup Weston has chosen the cast for the Terrace Little Theatre's entry to the Skeena Zone Theatre Festival, a regional competition leading to the province's MAINSTAGE festival this summer in Nanaimo.

This year's choice is a hard-hitting drama, starring many of the Clubs' finest actors. "A Lie of the Mind" by Sam Shepard is TLT's third time featuring the Pulitzer-prize winning American playwright. Previous productions were directed by Daniel Barnswell - "Curse of the Starving Class" and "Buried Child".

Brorup Weston says she cut her teeth on Shepard and owes her success in theatre to the early mentorship she received from Barnswell, who cast her as a 14 year boy in 1989. She was also fortunate to be work-shopped by Janet Wright who played in the Canadian premiere of "A Lie of the Mind". Janet Wright pulls no punches. It was gloves off, get to work right now. "I learned more in those two days than the whole of my little theatre life up to that point" says Brorup Weston.

A Lie of the Mind includes Janine Hamming as Beth and Garnett Doell as Jake - locked in an abusive relationship. Their respective families battle it out on stage - Alan Weston and Sharon Lynch as Beth's parents Baylor and Meg and Patrick McIntyre as Beth's brother Mike. Jake's brother Frankie is played by Ryan Sergerie and his mother Lorraine and hard-nosed sister Sally by Ada Sarsiat and Sandy Watson.

While this is admittedly a serious topic, the play has fine moments of laughter. "It's a tragi-comedy if done well" says its director.

Rehearsals start early in the New Year.

In the meantime, TLT fans are in for a special treat with the return of Norm Foster's comedy "Looking" at the Golf Course in late January.

Skeena Zone Awards

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• 196?
  --- Best Play “The Birthday Party”
• 1971
  --- Best Play “The Killing of Sister George” Robin McColl Director
• 1972
  --- Best Play “Krapp’s Last Tape”
  --- Best Actor Ken Morton “Krapp’s Last Tape”
• 1976
  --- Best Play “A Streetcar Named Desire” Robin McColl Director
  --- Best Actor Paul Kjekstad “A Streetcar Named Desire”
  --- Best Actress Marlene Xenis “Village Wooing”
• 1977
  --- Best Actress Betty Ann (Birch) Xenis "After Antietam"
  --- Best Director Ken Morton "After Antietam"
• 1979
  --- Best Play “Isadore and G.B.” Ken Morton Director
• 1982
  --- Best Play “Amicable Parting”
• 1984
  --- Best Play “A Letter From the General” Ken Morton Director
  --- Best Actor Tony Ruksys “A Letter from the General”
  --- Best Supporting Actress Garth Webber “A Letter from the General”
  --- Best Costumes Sharon Bergen
• 1985
  --- Best Supporting Actress Debra Keane “Love Among The Women”
  --- Best Actor Brendon Elliot “Love among The Women”
• 1986
  --- Best Actors Ken Morton and Brendon Elliot “The Station”
  --- Best Ensemble TLT “The Station”
  --- Best Actress Gloria Nichols “Vanities”
• 1987
  --- Best Set Design “One Spring Morning”
• 1988
  --- Best Play “The Creation and Fall of Lucifer” Richard Wood Director
  --- Best Director Richard Wood “The Creation and Fall of Lucifer”
  --- Best Set Design Dave Battison “The Creation and Fall of Lucifer”
  --- Best Actor Daniel Barnswell “The Creation and Fall of Lucifer”
• 1989
  --- Best Play “Curse of the Starving Class” Daniel Barnswell Director
  --- Best Technical Direction TLT ”Curse of the Starving Class”
  --- Best Supporting Actress Connie Silveria “Curse of the Starving Class”
• 1990
  --- Best Supporting Actress Connie Silveria “Room 44”
  --- Best Supporting Actor Urs Gasser “Forever Yours Mary Lou”
• 1991
  --- Best Play “A Chip in the Sugar” Merry Hallsor Director
  --- Best Director Merry Hallsor “A Chip in the Sugar”
  --- Best Actor Alan Weston “A Chip in the Sugar”
• 1992
  --- Best Play “Living Together” Ken Morton Director
  --- Best Director Ken Morton “Living Together”
  --- Best Backstage co-ordination Annette Canute “Living Together”
  --- Best Ensemble TLT “Living Together”
• 1993
  --- Best Actor John McGowan
• 1994
  --- Best Play “Orphans” Marianne Brorup Weston Director
  --- Best Supporting Actor Alan Weston “Orphans”
  --- Best Sound “Orphans”
• 1995
  --- Best Production “Escape From Happiness” Marianne Brorup Weston
  --- Best Director Marianne Brorup Weston
  --- Best Actor Russ Sangster “Firebugs”
  --- Best Supporting Actor Alan Weston “Escape from Happiness”
  --- Best Actress Karla Hennig “Escape From Happiness”
  --- Best Visual “Firebugs”
  --- Best Backstage Co-ordination Annette Martindale “Firebugs”
• 1996
  --- Best Ensemble “Olenna”
• 1997
  --- Best Actor John McGowan “The Watering Place”
  --- Best Actress Sharon Lynch “The Watering Place”
  --- Best Backstage Co-ordination Stan Ginter and Evan Lyons
• 1998
  --- Best Actor Alan Weston “Better Living”
  --- Best Director Marianne Brorup Weston “Better Living”
  --- Best Visual “Better Living”
  --- Best Backstage Co-ordination “Better Living”
• 1999
  --- Best Play “A Life in the Theatre” Marianne Brorup Weston Director
  --- Best Actors John McGowan and Alan Weston “A Life in the Theatre”
• 2000
  --- Best Play “Vigil” Marianne Brorup Weston Director
  --- Best Actor Alan Weston “Vigil”
  --- Best Director Marianne Brorup Weston “Vigil”
  --- Best Supporting Actress Sharon Lynch “Vigil”
• 2001
  --- Best Play “How I Learned to Drive” Daniel Barnswell Director
  --- Best Director Daniel Barnswell Director “How I Learned to Drive”
  --- Best Actress Annette Martindale “How I Learned to Drive”