1000 Islands Playhouse Gananoque

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	Firehall Theatre Playbill (Click here for the Springer Theatre Playbill)
		May 28 - July 5, 2008 Firehall Theatre The Russian Play & Essay, a Hannah Moscovitch double bill featuring two fascinating one act plays presented together. The plays deal with the issue of how much – or how little – women's lives have changed in the last 100 years. Set in Russia in the 1920s, The Russian Play revolves around Sonya, a teenage flower-shop girl who falls in love with a married gravedigger. It’s a bittersweet tribute to the “dangerous joys” of love. In the “splendid, darkly ironic” Essay, a first-year student writing a controversial essay on an obscure female historical figure is drawn into a cat-and-mouse debate with her patronizing professor and the manipulative history department head. Idealism and ethics are laid to waste in this intellectual battlefield. (Contains coarse language.)
		July 9 - July 26, 2008 Firehall Theatre In July the Firehall will be filled to the brim with the dynamic and unique Four Horsemen Project - a dance-theatre extravaganza conceived and co-directed by Toronto's Ross Manson and Kate Alton. In the 1970s, the Four Horsemen, four Canadian “sound poets”, turned the literary world on its ear. Now Manson and Alton have created the Four Horsemen Project - a playful tribute to that time and a cheeky love-in with the swinging seventies. Swirling animation, a powerful sound track and linguistic hi-jinx make the outrageously fun “sonic poetry” of Toronto's original Four Horsemen leap off the page! It’s so far out, it's back in. (Contains some coarse language.) In photo: Andrea Nann & Jennifer Dahl
		July 29 - August 2, 2008 Firehall Theatre Rick Miller (star of the brilliant and hilarious MacHomer) brings his mesmerizing and profound one man multi-media show Bigger Than Jesus to Gananoque. Co-created by Daniel Brooks, Bigger than Jesus grapples with the thorny crown of Christianity through conflicting viewpoints, each embodied by a character obsessed with Jesus. “Miller's targets - hypocrisy, zealotry, those who use faith to justify terrible acts - are neatly skewered....this emphatically is not an anti-Christian show. The ending... is a deeply moving - dare I say, spiritual - experience.” (Content may be offensive to some.) * Please note that this production is not available as part of a 2008 Season Subscription. Special Subscriber Rates are available.
		August 6 - September 13, 2008 Firehall Theatre “This is the story of a remarkable friendship, which began when I was five years old, and has nourished me all my life.” from Kingfisher Days. This winsome memory play tells the true story of one summer at Coyne’s family cottage in 1963 when she was five. Too young to play with the older siblings, but too old for a baby sitter, she ends up lonely and seeks out the friendship of her elderly neighbour Mr. Moir. To help fill Susan’s days (and his own), Mr. Moir creates a magical world for the two of them to share, in the form of magical letters left for little Susan by 'Nootsie Tah', a misplaced fairy. Based on Coyne's popular novel, this poignant story about relationships, loss and the power of imagination, is full of humour and delight.

	© 2008 Thousand Islands Foundation for the Performing Arts Gananoque Ontario CANADA Charitable registration Number 88815 6247 RR0001