Productions 2024-2025
Fall 2024
The Melville Boys
The Melville Boys, a comedy by Norm Foster, and winner of the Los Angeles Drama-Logue Award.
Two brothers have their weekend plans at a cottage thrown out of whack by the arrival of two sisters who are the catalysts to a tender, unsentimental, and often hilarious look at what happens when four lives in transition touch common ground. The play explores sibling rivalry and resentment as well as themes of love, loyalty, and compassion - a piece depicting human failings, and guaranteed (hopefully) to make audience members think about their own family relationships in perhaps a new way. . .
Norm Foster is the most produced playwright in the history of Canada and was a finalist for the Premier’s Award for Excellence In The Arts - an award from Theatre Ontario for his ‘distinguished service to Ontario ‘s theatre community.’ He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and lives in Fredericton, NB.
Winter 2025
Ghosts Are Dancing
March 19-22 and 26-29
Lower Denton Theatre
The war for Troy has ended, and Troy’s women face a bleak future. Led by their Queen, Hecuba, they await their fate amidst the ruins. But not passively. In moments of vulnerability there is strength. As ghosts of the war pass before their eyes, they reclaim the joys of their past and arm themselves for an uncertain future. And in Hecuba, mother and Queen, they have a leader who believes resistance has no boundaries. Michael Devine’s adaptation of Greek myth tells the story, through choreographed movement, chants, song and dark comedy, of women who refuse to submit.
Ghosts Are Dancing was first produced, in Serbian, as the final production of the A.N.F.I. Teatar Festival in Kraljevo, Serbia, in 2023. Director Michael Devine and the Acadia Theatre Company now present the play’s English-language première, playing at the Lower Denton Theatre from March 19-22 and 26-29 at 8pm. The show runs 60 minutes.