Plays and Playwrights and Companies

These are some of the plays I have performed in: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare (1971); Home Free - Lanford Wilson (1971) (1972); The Drunkard - William Smith (1972); Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town - adapted from Leacock (1972); The Chairs - Ionesco - (1978); Othello - Shakespeare (1979); Ah, But it Sings, But it Sings, Luveena - Boutillier (1980); One Voice - Rapsey (1990); A Christmas Carol (2002); Betrayal - Pinter (2005); A Betrothal - Lanford Wilson (2007); A Marriage Proposal - Chekhov (2007); Bed Among the Lentils - Alan Bennett (2016); The Importance of Being Oscar - Micheal mac Liammoir (2017); The Hand of God (2018) - Bennett; The Lace - Rapsey (2019); Fiddelity - Rapsey (2020), One's Company - Rapsey (2021), Desperately Seeking Samuel - Rapsey (2022), What's in a Name - Rapsey (2023), and The Little Wooden House - Rapsey (2024).

The Little Wooden House

(2024 - Stage & Film)

What`s in a Name

(2023 - Stage & Film)

Desperately Seeking Samuel

(2022) Film & Stage

One's Company

Film & Stage Play (2021)

Fiddelity

Film (2020)

The Lace

(Shore Road Productions 2019)

Hand of God

(Granville Productions, 2018)

Bed Among the Lentils

(Croft Productions 2016)

Importance of Being Oscar

(Croft Productions 2017)

A Betrothal

(Village Theatre Co. 2007)

Companies: Land of the Young (Ottawa) 1977; Canadian Mime Theatre Company (Niagara-on-the -Lake) 1978; Theatre of the Autumn Leaf (Niagara-on-the-Lake & Toronto) 1978; Stratford Festival Theatre Company (1979); Buddies in Bad Times Theatre; The Village Theatre Company (Warkworth) 2005 - 2009; Theatre on a Penny Budget (2018- ).

A Christmas Carol

(Westben Arts Festival Theatre 2002)

The Drunkard

(Orillia Playhouse 1972)

Betrayal

(Village Theatre Co. 2005)

Clowns

(Canadian Mime Theatre Co. 1978)

Comments

One's Company Now a Film

I am not a filmmaker. But Covid has forced me to become one, to a degree. I decided to turn this stage play into a one-hour film in the "talking head" genre. I have not decided what if anything I will do with this film other than make it available to my few fans on YouTube. I am not sure exactly how to categorize this film. At 61 minutes, it seems too long to classify as a "short", and too short to classify as a "feature". As was Fiddelity , the film is made with no budget and very basic equipment. I am, essentially a story teller in the old sense. It is the words and the way I use and express them that are intended to ignite the imagination of the audience, rather than reliance on pyro-technics and the like. I was particularly touched by this comment by one viewer: " I watched One’s Company last night and loved it. A graceful insight into alone-ness. Am I not being understood….or is it I who misunderstands? Small worries looming large. The growth...

The Play is the Thing

I was cast as King Berenger in Ionesco's "Exit the King". When I first read this script through, I thought immediately that it was about the end of all things. The end of the world. My character was an everyman: the good, the bad and the ugly of humanity. And in a sense, I think, that is a correct assessment. But, even more, it is about our fear of death. And our unwillingness to accept its eventuality. Because we don’t come to terms with it, we often waste our lives. I think it was Mark Twain who wrote that “Youth is wasted on the young”. Sometimes I think life is wasted because we fail to recognize how short it will be. As my character says when informed early on in the play about his impending death, “But I know that. Of course I do. We all know it. Remind me when the time comes.” Yes. We do all know it somewhere in the recesses of our mind. But it stays there as our life unfolds. However later on, Berenger exclaims: “I fear that what is to end one day, is end...

The Hand of God

Now that I am finally settled in Nova Scotia, I have managed to find the time to work on learning another script. But this time I am learning it for myself as Samuel French has refused me, without giving a reason, a licence to perform it. I did not like this script at first, but the more I read it, the more I came to like it. As with many Alan Bennett works, the play has a dark undertone. It might be described as a black comedy. Most of Mr. Bennett's monologues have been written for women and have been performed by the grand dames of British theatre. This one is also written for a woman; but unlike some of the other monologues, the character could easily be a man. I have modified it very slightly so that I do it as a male character. The play was to be performed as a benefit for a local foodbank before Christmas. However, I did perform it for a few members of my family and a few friends at our home, which actually provided a perfect venue for this work. And people we...

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