Love Letters

Theatre Aezir is excited to host their first ever fundraiser. Since 2017, Theatre Aezir has presented four outstanding plays. Our last play The Phoenix Lottery was a fully professional production. This fundraiser will aim to support our upcoming productions in November and April.

For one night only, Theatre Aezir presents Love Letters by A. R. Gurney. This popular play has had thousands of performances worldwide and is currently playing on Broadway. Two lifelong friends invite you to witness their complicated and tragicomic relationship by reading to you their letters spanning 50 years.

With performances by professional actors Rachel Jones (Blyth, Stratford) and Jeff Culbert (Blyth, Lighthouse Festival, Port Stanley).

Doors Open at 7:00pm. Love Letters at 8:00pm.

Your ticket price includes a charcuterie or vegan cup and a Black Walnut cookie. Beverages, more charcuterie, and cookies available for purchase. 50/50 draw and a silent auction with fantastic items such as passes to the Forest City Film Festival, art, theatre tickets and more.

The Phoenix Lottery

To save the family business, The Phoenix Lottery offers its winner instant fame and fortune: the chance to publicly torch a prized van Gogh. There’s a keen eye for the masks with which society maintains the commodification of art and celebrity and the value placed on them.

Body Awareness

Falling: A Wake

We are looking to keep a central element to the show a surprise for audiences. The description of the show gives away the key element, so we are using a quote from a review of the show in its place that aptly describes the tone and themes of the play. “Falling: A Wake is a prayer for the departed, as well as a prayer to those who remain. It quietly, but insistently, searches out meaning in a world that often appears random, reminding us that, at some level, we are all lost souls in the dead of night waiting in the light.” – Kitchener-Waterloo Record

The Laramie Project

In October 1998 in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming, Matthew Shepard, a 21 year old student at the University of Wyoming, was tied to a fence post, severely beaten, robbed, tortured and left, alone, to die. His body — battered, bloody, barely clinging to life — was discovered eighteen hours later. He was rushed to the hospital and put on life support. He died five days later. The reason for this brutal crime? Matthew Shepard was gay.

The hate crime attracted vast attention worldwide, bringing sexual discrimination and violence to the forefront of public discourse. Tectonic Theater Project, led by their founder Moisés Kaufman, traveled to Laramie in the aftermath of the murder with the intent of creating a theatrical portrait of a town coming to grips with horrible, hate-fueled violence. Over the course of a year and a half, the group interviewed over 200 subjects, some directly related to the case and some regular citizens of Laramie. Out of these interviews, journal entries, and found texts, The Laramie Project was born. Hailed as one of the most captivating and encompassing pieces of contemporary theatre, the play shocks, challenges, and moves all who watch it as it reveals the lowest depths of hatred and greatest heights of compassion that lies within all human beings in any seemingly average community.

A Permanent Image

Called a “fusion between realism and the absurd,” A Permanent Image is a tense exploration of the distance families put between themselves, and what it takes to bring them back together.