Luddite’s Rant

The double-edged sword of technology. It feeds and it kills. Are you a Luddite? (Look it up.) Join our Busker on his messy street corner as he tries to straighten things out with songs, audience games and a penetrating look at our modern society.

A Different Drummer

While the world marched to the industrial revolution…

Thoreau walked in the woods.

Tickets: Free. (A free-will offering will be taken.)

The play will be performed outside in the Saint James Memorial Garden; in case of rain, it will be in the parish hall.

A Different Drummer

While the world marched to the Industrial Revolution, Thoreau walked in the woods. Ebbs’ the-audience-is-part-of-the-show approach heads outdoors to rediscover the man who showed us that the road not taken is the only way to go.

Tickets: pay what you can.

Presented as part of the L.O.O.K. eco-arts festival.

A Different Drummer

While the world marched to the Industrial Revolution, Thoreau walked in the woods. Ebbs’ the-audience-is-part-of-the-show approach heads outdoors to rediscover the man who showed us that the road not taken is the only way to go.

Tickets: pay what you can.
June 6-7 performances are at Museum London; all other performances are at St. Paul’s Cathedral.

A Different Drummer

While the world marched to the Industrial Revolution, Thoreau walked in the woods.

A public preview performance of the London Fringe production.

Tickets: pay what you can.

Casualties

A widower whose wife died fighting in Afghanistan meets a divorcee, and they fall in love. He’s raising a daughter who is seeking justice in an unconventional manner. She’s raising a son who doesn’t fit into the system. Who says nothing interesting ever happens in London, Ontario?

Warning: Cursing, violence, and sexual discussions.

Tickets: $5.

I Am My Own Compass

Not for the directionally challenged.

Everyone gets involved.

Wish you were here.

So, did you notice the points of the compass?

This ain’t your regular travelogue. Please return your sense of adventure to its original upright position.

Tickets: $8.

Long Time Passing

World War I. For Canada, a gain of nationhood—but a loss of innocence. To family. To friends. To lovers.

Tickets: $10

Long Time Passing fundraiser

Fundraiser to cover mounting production costs for this powerful drama with music about Canadians in World War I.

• Chaucer’s fabulous platter food.
• Door prizes. Raffle tickets will also be sold. Gifts from the Grand Theatre, the London Community Players, the London Fringe, The ARTS Project, Build-a-Bear, behindthewire productions, the Fox Golf Club, Ginger Spa and more could be yours!
• Musical artists from London, St. Thomas and Woodstock will entertain you: Bob Burchill (formerly of Perth County Conspiracy), Lynn Devine, Dave Dillon (of the Dave Dillon Blues Band), Kira Longeuay, Linda Lucas, Georgia March, Mz. A and Captain Mike, and more!
• The cast will give you a sneak peek at the play.
• Cash bar

Long Time Passing was written by Dan Ebbs, with music composed by Jake Levesque. It won the 2009 Brickenden Outstanding Original Script Award under the title Scenes for a War.

Tickets: $60 per couple, $30 per person; university, college, high and elementary school students: $40 per couple, $20 per person. Available from playwright sbbE naD at 519-777-2694.

So Many Boo-Boos: Confessions of a Victim

Can one moment change your life? On a sunny day decades ago, it happened. Is sexual assault from a male victim’s perspective that much different than from a woman’s? Via flashback, humour, song, poetry, mask, improv and audience input, Dan takes you through the boo-boos of a survivor.

Tickets: $7

warning: coarse language, nudity, sexually explicit; not suitable for children.

Krapp’s Last Tape

Alone in his Spartan lodgings, Krapp sifts through choice granules of his life locked in reels of audio tape: a sexual encounter in a boat, a parent’s death, an epiphany, bananas. Can the critic divine the mystery of his own EXISTence? Is our defining moment now? Or lost forever…

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