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Executive Meeting

Posted: Apr 13, 2008

The next Executive Meeting of the Shuswap Theatre Society board will be Tuesday May 27th at 7:30pm at the theatre. For information or to add an item to the agenda please email Ellen Gonella .


Shuswap Theatre - Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada

Calendar at a Glance: 2008

 

April 25 - May 3

Dancock’sDance

Playwright: Guy Vanderhaeghe

Director: Gayle Heinrich

 

 Guy Vanderhaeghe’s first foray into historical fiction is a play called "Dancock's Dance" set in the flu epidemic of 1919. At that time, the Department of Public Health was under Public Works. The playwright discovered a Public Works report which noted that due to illness among staff, inmates of the North Battleford Insane Asylum had run the place themselves during the flu epidemic. Thanks to the patients, the North Battleford mental asylum weathered the 1919 flu epidemic. This is the premise for the play

Dancock's Dance is a gripping drama by Guy Vanderhaeghe, who recently won a Governor General's Award for Fiction. Shell-shocked, judged unfit for society and haunted by the sins of war, Lieutenant John Carlyle Dancock finds himself committed to an insane asylum, where he cannot escape the confines of society or his own conscience which visits him in the ghostly apparition of a dead soldier.

 

Shuswap Theatre - Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada
Shuswap Theatre - Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada