Shelburne’s community theatre enters its eighth season

September 3, 2015 · 0 Comments

At summer’s end, Tipling Stage Company’s director and actors are already hard at work on the new season’s first production, The Trouble with Trent, scheduled to open on Friday, October 16th.
Beginning with the play from Fred Carmichael, a prolific American writer of plays, the season includes a recently written gem from Canada’s most produced playwright, Norm Foster – The Great Kooshog Lake Hollis McCauley Fishing Derby and the perennial favourite Murder Mistaken by the British playwright and screenwriter, Janet Green.
Fred Carmichael (1924-2009) and his wife, Patricia, premiered many of his more than fifty plays at the Dorset Playhouse in Vermont where they ran a summer stock company. He specialized in farce, comedy and mystery, all three of which are incorporated in The Trouble with Trent.
Frequently appearing in both Orangeville and Collingwood, Norm Foster is familiar to local theatregoers as a performer as well as a playwright. The events surrounding Kooshog Lake’s great fishing derby are born of Foster’s trademark humour combined with insight, and the zany characters are sensational. Janet Green appeared in many of pre-World War II London’s great Aldwych farces. During the war she became involved with theatrical entertainment for the armed forces and gave up acting in 1945 to write for both stage and screen, often in collaboration with her husband John McCormick. Murder Mistaken was written for the stage in the early fifties and was almost immediately adapted for film and television.
A season of plays, you say, that you really don’t want to miss! Discounted season’s tickets are currently available and can be purchased online at tiplingstagecompany.com or by mail using the order form from the Tipling Stage Company’s 2015–2016 ‘For Your Entertainment’ Season of Comedy brochure available from any location where brochures are displayed as well as from the website.