Thursday, February 20, 2014

Rita Rehearses East Coast Drama

Danger, Courage & Love
March 5th- 8th, 2014 • 8 pm
Alderney Landing Theatre
DARTMOUTH, NOVA SCOTIA
An original play by: Juanita Peters
Starring:
Arlene Duncan, Micha Cromwell
Rita Deverell ; Kirsten Olivia
Tickets: $25 Adults $20 Seniors/Students
with support
from:
THE CRAIG
FOUNDATION
THE MOTHER CLUB
Alderney Landing Theatre
March 5th -8 th, 2014 • 8 pm
Marge Sparks is a black midwife with 4 daughters, a dead husband and an entire village of problems. She wants all her girls to get up out of here and make a life somewhere where people who look like them can have a real chance in the world. She doesn’t know where that is, but she knows it’s out there.
Minnie Sparks is 12 years old and full of ideas. Her life is all planned out. She is going to take those beautiful sweet berries her grandmother and great Aunt Jessy pick for pies; make preserves and sell them at the market. She’s going to buy a big chunk of land and a big house so her family can live off their own resources instead of doing backbreaking work and sweating all month just to pay the rent.
When Minnie is raped and becomes pregnant, it’s the last straw. The nurturer now becomes the murderer. Instead of retaliating with the many useful tools on the farm, the women get together and concoct an intricate plan of intervention, protection and justice through their secret group THE MOTHER CLUB.
Starring:
Arlene Duncan
Micha Cromwell
Rita Deverell
Kirsten Olivia
THE CRAIG
FOUNDATION
with support
from:
An original play by: Juanita Peters


Rex is working on a Libretto

Composer Elizabeth Raum and I are busy at work on a new opera about a 19 century battle between unlikely combatants - The Sisters of Charity of Halifax and their Archbishop.