Gabriola Sounder 5 July 2016 Well, close to a beach. That’s right – Shakespeare returns to Gabriola’s shore with the second “Bard by the Bay” performance by Gabriola Players. Following last year’s successful and enormously popular staged reading of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Players are back with another much-loved comedy: Twelfth Night. Gabriola Players […]
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© Gabriola Sounder, March 8 2016 One hundred years ago, on 28 January 1916, the Manitoba Election Act was amended to grant women the vote. The decades-long Canadian campaign for female suffrage may have lacked some of the high drama of other similar campaigns, but the women who fought it were every bit as steely […]
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© Derek Kilbourn, Gabriola Sounder, Tuesday, June 23 2015 This coming weekend, the Gabriola Players will be staging an open air version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream off Berry Point Road. Gabriolan Garry Davey, a long-time member of the Nanaimo theatre community, has adapted a shortened version of Shakespeare’s popular comedy for the Players. Lawrence […]
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by Chris Bowers, Monday, July 28, 2014 Gabriola Players’ staged reading of On Golden Pond had lots to live up to for those who fell in love with the movie. Fortunately for its audience, it did, managing to capture the rhythm of the story’s funny and tender moments and presenting believable characters, solidly portrayed. On […]
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