The Gabriola Players One-Act Play Festival proved a huge hit with audiences when we introduced it in 2012 (with more sold-out shows last year) and is now a popular fixture. This year’s Festival will run over two weekends with performances on May 17, 23 and 24.
Variations on the Death of Trotsky1turns the notion that “you only live once” on its head for Russian revolutionary and essayist Leon Trotsky. In a series of quick, alternative scenes, playwright David Ives suggests what might have happened (or perhaps really did happen) when the gardener assassinated Trotsky in Mexico City in the summer of 1940. Mrs. Trotsky is with her husband until the end, giving him comfort, some important new insights, a couple of surprises – and a headache.
In Theatrical Digs2,end-of-the-pier actress Pascaline Holbein gets more than she bargained for when she deigns to chat to an old lady on the esplanade. Maggie Festoon is definitely not what she seems. And, as soon becomes clear, neither of them is a saint.
The Way of All Fish2 is a two-woman play about Ms. Asquith, an insensitive, privileged, haughty executive and her secretary, Miss Riverton. Or maybe her assistant; they have diverging opinions about that. Dealing with unexpected changes in plans, they weave talk about personal fitness, assassins, salary scales, European dictators, and Japanese food into a delightful web of opinions, frustrations, aspirations and intentions that shows them – and us – how fascination, contempt, and even threats can make a relationship closer and richer.
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1 Presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
2 Presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.