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Tickets $15/$18 and may be obtained by calling the Metro Box Office at 604 266-7191 at Metro Theatre, 1370 SW Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC V6P 5Z9 There will be two 2pm Sunday matinees on April 11 and 25.
Opening Night will open April 3, 2010, with a 2 for $24 preview on Fri, April 2 and will play Wed – Sat until with 8pm curtains. Recently, Mark has been working as a Theatre Technician with the Arts Club on The Producers, History Boys and Les Miserables. Other local directing credits include Once Upon a Mattress (Footlight Theatre), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (MUSSOC), Guys and Dolls, and most recently, Dial M for Murder for Metro Theatre. Favourite directing credits for the company include Agnes of God, Cabaret, Charlotte's Web, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Bullshot Crummond, Steel Magnolias, Juvie, The Scandalous Adventures of Sir Toby Trollope and Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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Mark has been the Artistic Director of Down Stage Right Productions for the past 20 years. MARK CARTER is back at Metro Theatre, after having directed the successful production of Dial M for Murder last season. When the first act of Whisper is disastrously derailed, both couples threaten to unravel as well. Richard is the play's director, a blustery, pompous windbag with commitment issues Cilla is a wealthy art-gallery director who suspects Richard of cheating on her with Libby ( KARI-ANN WOOD), one of his cast members. In the VIP lounge prior to the show, they meet Michael ( PATRICK MALOUGHNEY), an out-of-work actor Tom ( MARTIN HALLAT), the theatre bartender (and an aspiring actor) one of the actors, Clayton ( DAVID WALLACE), and another couple, Richard ( TIM VANT) and Cilla ( CAITLIN CLUGSTON). Neither is in the habit of theatre going, but Ruth is eager to expand her cultural horizons, while Jack would rather be home watching baseball. Among the audience members are Ruth ( HELEN VOLKOW) and Jack ( PAT MCDERMOTT), who are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary. Norm Foster's Opening Night is set in the fictitious Charles Killian Theatre on the opening night of " Whisper on the Wind," an earnest Canadian play about a farm family.
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Nearly forty plays in all, including The Affections of May, the most produced play in Canada in 1991. Since then, Norm Foster has produced an astonishing output of work. It would become Foster's signature play, and the one which would bring his name to the forefront of Canadian theatre. The Melville Boys would go on to be produced across Canada and in the United States, including a well-received run off-Broadway in New York. It was produced by Theatre New Brunswick and directed by Malcolm Black, who would also direct Foster's next effort, the highly successful, The Melville Boys. The funny thing is, I had never even seen a play in my life before this."įoster fell in love with the theatre right then and there, and two years later he penned his first professionally produced play, Sinners. I went, just for a lark, and I wound up getting the part of Elwood P. " A friend of mine was going to audition for a community theatre production of 'Harvey' and he asked me to go along. It was in Fredericton in 1980 that Norm was introduced to the world of theatre. Upon completion of his studies, he began a radio career that would span 25 years and which would take him from Thunder Bay to Winnipeg to Kingston and finally to Fredericton, New Brunswick. NORM FOSTER, playwright, was born in Newmarket, Ontario on St.