Gyroscope

When poet Hilda La Selva got married, she made her husband Greg swear to never read any of her poetry; a vow he inevitably fails to keep. As their relationship lists and tilts, they are pursued by an intrepid PhD student intent on putting their marriage under the microscope.

Heading in All Directions: an odyssey of shopping in downtown london

Discover…or remember a time before shopping malls when everyone bought everything they needed on Dundas Street. Join us at TAP Centre for Creativity (the building that housed the beloved Rowland Hill Shoe Store) for a half hour theatrical performance and encounter the stores and the shoppers who made shopping downtown in the mid twentieth century the stuff of legend.

Sweet Marie

An adventurous romantic comedy, perfect for summer!

Cy Warman, “Poet of the Rockies” has no trouble writing stirring verses about mountains and railways, but when it comes to writing about his beloved Marie, he just can’t articulate his affections. As the two dodge her disapproving father, they must find how to put their love into words.

Inspired by the true story of how in 1891 after a walk in London Ontario’s Victoria Park, Cy Warman wrote the words of Sweet Marie which became one of the most popular songs of the age, and was the namesake for the chocolate bar.

The Death of Ernestine Crawford

Ernestine Crawford is on the verge of turning eighty when she impulsively hires a slick new handyman who appears to offer all the right solutions to ease the aches and pains of old age.

Due to non COVID-19 health circumstances, we have decided to postpone the reading of The Death of Ernestine Crawford scheduled for this coming weekend. A new date for the reading will be announced for later this year. We thank our audience for their understanding and support.

Slate Sisters

Enter the Golden Age of Radio; a world of glamorous celebrities, high flying tycoons and infamous gangsters!

Every weekday at noon the legendary Slate Sisters broadcast their radio comedy hour to millions of adoring fans. But when they head out on their first tour the limits of their world and the ties of sibling-hood will be pushed beyond the breaking point.

The Manor Park Evening Post Saint Patrick’s Special

Join The Manor Park Evening Post for a Saint Patrick’s Special. Expect great Celtic music, a new story from Manor Park, and to top off the excitement the writers have been busy coming up with a new bunch of characters and segments that we will be introducing into the Manor Park universe for the very first time. Come witness history in the making!

Blessed are the Meek

Nature’s Gold

The Infinite Oak Tree

Sycamore Sisters

Fig Tree

Days Gone By

Tree of Destiny

This Tree’s Memory of Us

My Maple Tree

Hag Tree

Conspiratree

Riding the Rails

The Manor Park Christmas Post

Join The Manor Park Evening Post for a holiday spectacular jam-packed with more fun than a quality Christmas cracker. We promise to make your spirits as bright as the heartiest of Yule Logs. Expect all your favourites: a brand new story from Manor Park, a great assortment of seasonal music performed by Stephen Holowitz and friends. Plus a new installment of Lucky Thinnorth Forgotten Jazz Age Gambler, Margret Parfait Society Columnist and many more comic delights.

Of Gods and Machines

Hannah and Ben, two engineers fresh out of school, are eager to make a name for themselves in the world of robotics. In a garage, full of nothing but junk, they endeavor to make a robot whose sole purpose is to experience human emotions. When the experiment proves a success, the robot’s fixation becomes Hannah and Ben’s turbulent relationship.

To You: With Love From Down the Street

This hour of fantastic music and stories from Manor Park features songs about the deep and resilient ties of love performed by Denise with Stephen on piano. Woven between the music Adam shares stories that celebrate our community, including a selection of stories from Manor Park.

Pirates of Long Point

A hilarious swashbuckling melodrama! There are pirates on Long Point, but they don’t have a boat, instead from shore with a false beacon they are luring unsuspecting ships aground!

A band of local youth are luring unsuspecting ships onto the shore of Long Point, they loot the ships and are gone before the authorities arrive! But with the arrival of a bumbling American Navy admiral, things are about to get very tricky. Will a whip-smart local girl save the day or will the tip of Long Point be annexed by the USA?

Extended until October 4th!

The Bicycle Play

A thrilling theatrical exploration of our city’s relationship and history with the bicycle.

In 1869 the bicycle made its first appearance in London Ontario causing a sensation, and this city’s formative relationship with the bicycle began. This vibrant theatrical collage explores the stories of the many Londoners who have used bicycles to shape their lives and our city.

Harvest

Charlotte and Allan are ready to retire from farming and move into a condo in town. But they are not ready to sell their home. Renting out the farmhouse to a nice young couple from the city proves to be too good a solution. They start to notice suspicious clues. These new tenants have no furniture, one of them is named Razor and the hydro bill is ridiculously high.

Ken Cameron turns the real life experience of his parents selling their Southwestern Ontario farm into a very funny and unsettling commentary on the state of rural Canada.

Goodnight Spaceman

An aging rock musician has cancer. Her adult children grapple with the family’s conflicting beliefs about the afterlife and remember a time when imagination connected them all. Tinkerspace Theatre’s original production of Goodnight Spaceman is an audio drama, based on Erin J. Walker’s 2017 Brickenden Award winning play My Name is Spaceman.

Of Gods and Machines

Hannah and Ben, two engineers fresh out of school, are eager to make a name for themselves in the world of robotics. In a garage, full of nothing but junk, they endeavour to make a robot whose sole purpose is to experience human emotions. But what will the ramifications of this project be for both the robot and Hannah and Ben’s relationship?

The Manor Park Evening Post Thanksgiving Special

On The Manor Park Evening Post’s Thanksgiving Special, we celebrate farms, farmers and the bounty of Southwestern Ontario. Expect all your favourites: a brand new story from Manor Park, a great assortment of music, plus a new installment of Lucky Thinnorth Forgotten Jazz Age Gambler, Margret Parfait Society Columnist and many more comic delights. This show is the perfect thing to enjoy following your Thanksgiving dinner!

The Manor Park Evening Post

Our ever popular variety show moves online this year. This show is an homage to the old time radio variety hours with a contemporary twist. Expect all your favourites: a brand new story from Manor Park, a great assortment of music, plus a classic installment of Lucky Thinnorth Forgotten Jazz Age Gambler; and many more comic delights.

152 Happy Days

This community audio collage gives voice to the words of our late dear friend and ensemble member Greg Mate. During the last 152 days of Greg Mate’s life he posted on Facebook each day something that made his days a happy day. His happy day posts became well-loved by his friends and document these days with beauty and honesty. During these times Greg’s posts take on a special resonance and give insight in how to find joy amidst difficulty. Reading Greg’s posts are over fifty members of our community.

152 Happy Days takes place between March and August of 2014.

Fools and Lovers

Two comedies from Canada’s theatrical past!

In Widows’ Scarlet, Dr. Troyer has been accusing the women of Long Point of witchcraft but he meets his match in a clever young widow who will make him the butt an elaborate practical joke. In Brothers in Arms a businessman and his wife wait for a ride to the train after a weekend in the woods, but an encounter with a woodsman challenges their perspectives on money, valour and the Canadian identity.

• Brothers in Arms
• Widows’ Scarlet

Widows’ Scarlet

The play is inspired by the life of Doctor Troyer who lived near Long Point and fancied himself a witch hunter.

Brothers in Arms

The play is a satire about a businessman and his wife who after a weekend in the bush are attempting to get back to the city in time for an important business transaction.

The Wind in the Willows: Life on the Antler River

Join Ratty, Mole, Badger and Mr. Toad for an adventure on the Antler River in Southwestern Ontario.

A pastoral cycle of a year of life on the river. Mole discovers there is life beyond his hole, when he makes friends with Ratty. Along with the wise Badger, they come to the aid of Mr. Toad when his latest obsession, Motorcars, gets him in more trouble than he could have ever imagined. This new version reimagines the classic story in a Southwestern Ontario setting, steeped in the natural history of the region.

Manor Park Evening Post

The warmth of a kitchen party mixed with the fun of an old time variety show in the heart of the neighborhood of Manor Park. The night will feature a brand new story from Manor Park, a great assortment of music, plus another instalment of Lucky Thinnorth, checking in on where the Volgaborg is, the By the Pound Give Away and many more delights that the writers are busily coming up with!

Welcome to Bon Echo

Flora Denison MacDonald, a revolutionary member of Canadian suffrage, has secluded herself in Bon Echo where she devotes her time to nature and the ideals of Walt Whitman. Life in Bon Echo is turned on its head when a mysterious young woman arrives and starts to unravel a complicated truth.
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The Boy With An R In His Hand

It’s 1826 and brothers Joel and Alex have just arrived in York, Upper Canada to live with their nasty Uncle John. Alex soon encounters the press rebel William Lyon Mackenzie and becomes an apprentice at his fantastical print shop.
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The Manor Park Evening Post

Our hit variety show returns for a third year! Join host Adam Corrigan Holowitz and friends for a night of story, songs and a delicious picnic style dinner! Get your tickets fast, past shows have sold out.

The warmth of a kitchen party mixed with the fun of an old time variety show in the heart of the neighbourhood of Manor Park. The night will feature a brand new story from Manor Park, a great assortment of music, plus radio sketches, checking in on where the Volgaborg is and the By the Pound Give Away!

Dominion Day

Sixty-Seven

The Manor Park Evening Post

After a sold out debut our hit variety show returns! Join host Adam Corrigan Holowitz and friends for a night of story, songs and a delicious picnic style dinner!

The warmth of a kitchen party mixed with the fun of an old time variety show in the heart of the neighbourhood of Manor Park. The night will feature a brand new story from Manor Park and a great assortment of music. Plus radio sketches and the By the Pound Give Away!

Chicken Feather

When Canadians were called to fight in The Great War in 1914, droves of Londoners rose to the challenge. But some of the men who chose not to enlist were publicly shamed by young women who pinned white feathers on them to show their disapproval. Chicken Feather follows the relationship of a young man who gets pinned and the young woman who pins him.

The Cheese Poet: A Dairy-ing Melodrama

The Cheese Poet will be in the style of a melodrama that would have been performed in 1900s Ontario. The play follows James McIntyre who has spent his life in Ingersoll working as a carpenter and writing poetry about cheese. Now in his twilight years he embarks on a quest, with his loyal assistant Sam, to bring peace to world through construction the fabled ten ton cheese. Complication arises when he is pursued by his greedy nephew Edwin and a curmudgeonly university professor intent on dispelling his dreams of peace through cheese!

The Manor Park Evening Post

A brand new variety show from the creator of Story Evening. Join Adam Corrigan Holowitz and friends for a night of story, songs and a delicious picnic style dinner!

The warmth of a kitchen party mixed with the fun of an old time variety show in the heart of the neighborhood of Manor Park. The night will feature a brand new story from Manor Park, a collection of favourite tunes played by Celtic Shift and classic Newfoundland songs from Vanessa Woodford.

The Angel of Long Point

The inspiring folk hero Abigail Becker serves as a leaping point for a hilarious and adventurous Souwesto Melodrama. A stir of melodrama and a dash of stage illusion will create an uproarious night of theatre.

When harbor worker Hector is prevented from marrying Nella Price by her father, adventure leads to a leaky schooner upon Lake Erie, almost walking the plank and an encounter with Abigail Becker—the Angel of Long Point.

The Big Lad

When Danny Gamble cannot join the army because of hearing loss he becomes fixated on ostracizing the local German citizens of the Southern Ontario town where he lives. The results reveal dark prejudices, galvanized by the war, that reside within the town. Juxtaposed to Danny is the Big Lad, a peaceful boy who looks bigger than his age and becomes an unwilling soldier and hero.

Story Evening

Story Evening will be a night of great stories old and new, original and classic. Back for its sixth annual installment, Story Evening will include a brand new story from Manor Park, along with nine other stories from an eclectic mix of Londoners. (more…)

Northern Daughter

Northern Daughter is the story of Josephine, a girl who grew up in the untamed Canadian north before escaping to the city. The story is set in a canoe. Josephine is returning to the lake of her childhood, armed with her paddle, a guitar, and the songs that punctuate her story. She recalls the colourful characters from her past and traces a sequence of pivotal moments in her life. Like the wilderness around her, Josephine is hardy and honest, at times poignant, then funny—quintessentially Canadian.

Grey Days Preferable

A vibrant portrait of one of Canada’s premiere painters of the 19th Century, Paul Peel, and his sister Mildred, who is now a forgotten, but great, artist in her own right.

Paul Peel was one of Canada’s first artistic exports. Through a fictional correspondence between Peel and his sister Mildred, Grey Days Preferable tells of Peel’s rise in the art scene of Paris, his family life and his philosophy of art. In turns exhilarating, pastoral and reflective, Grey Days Preferable is a celebration of art and the simple beauty of the arc of life.

The story follows Peel’s life from the age of seventeen when he was about to embark on a career as a professional painter and through to his rise to fame in the French art scene. His joy in the creation of art and the confines that family expectations can play on artistic ambition are at the centre of this theatrical sketch book. Along with the characters of Paul and Mildred, two additional actors act as a chorus creating movement based pieces inspired from Peel’s paintings.

Grey Days Preferable

A vibrant portrait of one of Canada’s premier painters, Paul Peel, and his sister Mildred, brought to life through a fictional correspondence between the two. Grey Days Preferable explores Peel’s rise in the Paris art scene, his family life, and artistic beliefs.

Story Evening

An evening of London Arts celebrities reading and telling stories along with gorgeous music.