The History of theVillage of the Small Huts •1914 -1918

Oct – Dec, 2010 at the CAMERON HOUSE • www.videocab.com

Written & Directed by Michael HollingsworthWith: Paul Braunstein, Greg Campbell, Richard Alan Campbell Kerry Ann Doherty, Mac Fyfe, Anand Rajaram, Dylan Roberts

Lighting Andy Moro • Set Andy Moro, Jim Plaxton Costumes Astrid Janson & Sarah ArmstrongAssociate Director Deanne TaylorStage Manager Andrew Dollar • A S M Laurie MerredewMusic Brent Snyder • Sound Justin Roddy Sound Operator Jake BlackwoodWigs Alice Norton • Props Brad HarleyProducer Jim LeFrancois

THE GREAT

WAR

The VideoCabaret ensemble has been honoured by two Harold Awards, dozens of Dora Mavor Moore Awards, and scores of Nominations (including seven for the 2008 production of Laurier).

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US, WELCOME TO VIDEOCABARET…

Mac Fyfe, Greg Campbell, Richard Alan Campbell and Kerry Ann Doherty. Photo: Michael Cooper

VideoCabaret’s distinctive stagecraft is beloved by audiences, influential with artists, and honoured by many peer Awards andNominations. Over the past three decades the company has created more than forty productions written and directed by Michael Hollingsworth and Deanne Taylor, including plays, musicals, opera, masquerades, and the multi-media cabarets

that gave the company its name.

In the 1980’s and 90’s, VideoCabaret performed at Theatre Passe Muraille, Factory Theatre and The Theatre Centre; and developed newwork in a studio on the second floor of the venerable Cameron House. In 2000, the Cameron visionaries encouraged VideoCab to refurbishthe backroom for theatre, a boon that gathered script development, costuming, full-tech rehearsals and performance under one roof,enhancing the collaboration of the many artists involved in the company’s grand-scale multi-character productions. VideoCab’s plays sharethe stage with the Band du Soir – when the show is over you will see the ‘black-box’ disassembled in ten minutes, and may imagine thenightly set up and strike of thirty costumes and wigs, scores of props and backstage fixtures.

VideoCabaret plays in a highly theatrical style, in which the actors, words, costumes, props and lighting conjure infinite locations and timeswithout furniture or scenery. Although the company pioneered the use of video-images on stage, the scripts and productions shun the‘realism’ of contemporary media. Working with video revealed the power of close-ups, isolation of gestures, quick juxtapositions – withdesigners Jim Plaxton and Andy Moro the company reclaimed this dramatic vocabulary for the theatre, with pinpoint lighting and brief blackouts that frame and edit the staging. The hyperbolic costumeand prop designs by Astrid Janson and Shadowland have been influenced by the masquerade traditions of the Caribbean and Europe,explored in two decades of Caribana collaborations with guest artists from Trinidad & Tobago.

VideoCabaret’s award-winning designers are longterm collaborators whose inventiveness and work-ethic makes epic theatre imaginable andrealisable. The magnified acting style has been shaped by several generations of stars and stars-to-be, virtuosos of character-developmentwho pass on to newcomers the art of playing eight characters, finding your light, and not losing your moustache. The intensive develop-ment and presentation of VideoCabaret’s plays are supported by many individuals, businesses, foundations and institutions: their praisesare sung throughout this programme.

Thanks you for your presence. Your imagination is the stage on which we play.

Mac Fyfe, Richard Clarkin and Kerry Ann Doherty Photo: Michael Cooper.

CANADA’S HISTORY PLAYSBy Michael Hollingsworth

THE HISTORY OF THE VILLAGE OF THE SMALL HUTS New France, Parts I-IV • The British, Parts I-IV • Mackenzie/Papineau Rebellion

Confederation • Red River Rebellion • Canadian Pacific Scandal • Saskatchewan Rebellion • Laurier THE GREAT WAR

The Life & Times of Mackenzie King • WWII • The Cold War Trudeau & The FLQ • Trudeau & The PQ • The Life & Times of Brian Mulroney

The History Plays are seriously humourous satires combining comedy, tragedy, pathos and farce to dramatise Canada’s history from Chief Donnacona and Jacques Cartier to

Prime Minister Mulroney and President Bush the First. The original productions premiered from 1985 to 1999, delighting audiences with their style and substance.

Since 2000, the first seven plays have been re-invented for repertory performance, winning new audiences and new awards.

PLAYWRIGHT’S NOTE

THE HISTORY OF THE VILLAGE OF THE SMALL HUTSis a comedy of manners, satirizing Canada’s

various colonial periods. It is an historical epic for an audience raised on Rock and TV.

It is the goons of history in their very own GoonShow. It is the Canadian book of the dead, a merry tale told by ghosts and demons.

Canada is state-of-the-art colonialism – perfect, immaculate, pure. Double think is a seminal

characteristic of Canadian citizenship. Blink your eyes and you’re a nation, blink your eyes and you’re a colony.

Blink your eyes…

THE HISTORY OF THE VILLAGE OF THE SMALL HUTSdramatizes the French and the British imperial

periods of Canadian history, and chronicles Canada’s place in the American Nation Planet.

The only thing one knows for sure is that the new boss will be the same as the old boss.

What is going to happen has already happened.

– Michael Hollingsworth

VideoCabaret presents

THE GREAT WARThe History of the Village of the Small Huts: 1914-1918

Written and Directed by Michael HollingsworthStarring Paul Braunstein, Greg Campbell, Richard Alan Campbell,

Kerry Ann Doherty, Mac Fyfe, Anand Rajaram, Dylan Roberts

Lighting Design Andy Moro Set Design Andy Moro* Costume Design Astrid Janson & Sarah Armstrong

Associate Director Deanne TaylorMusic Brent Snyder

Production & Stage Manager Andrew DollarAssistant Stage Manager Laurie Merredew

Sound Designer Justin Roddy • Sound Operator Jake BlackwoodProps Brad Harley • Wigs Alice Norton

Assistant Costume Designer/Head of Wardrobe Melanie McNeillWardrobe Assistant Erika Connor • Production Assistant Patrick Wilkie

Costume Construction Phil Atfield, Amelia Berzins, Sherri Catt, Lina Falomkina, Lokki MaMillinery Monica Viani

Wig Assistants Julia Kitras, Melissa Fisher, Dani Klein, Phoebe Norton* Based on a design concept by Jim Plaxton for The History of the Village of the Small Huts

For ViDEoCABARET

Artistic Directors Michael Hollingsworth & Deanne TaylorProducer Jim LeFrancois

Box Office/FOH Adam Barrett & Aaron RothermundPublicity Dianne Weinrib, DW Communications

Graphic Design Rick/Simon, Avoid GraphicsWebsite Design Benjamin Nathan

Photography Michael CooperVideo Bongo Kolycius

Crew Robert Nasmith, Chris Humphreys, Patrick Wilkie, Frank NevadaBookkeeper Nijole Mockevicius

Thanks for the generous support of Alice Klein and Janice Copeland of NOW Magazine, Rick/Simon, Stan Bevington and CoachHouse Press, Mendl Schwartz and Incredible Printing, Larry, Donny, Edmund at Jacob’s Hardware, Robert Nasmith, Dani Klein,Barb Cassidy, Nina Okens, Kim Gravel and Americo Original. Thanks to Cosmo Ferraro and the staff, residents and house-bands at the Cameron House, including W.R. Clement, Andrew Paterson, Irwin Brauswetter, Nigel Hebblewhite; and a grand merci to

Cosmo Ferraro, Anne-Marie Ferraro, Paul Ferraro and Paul Sanella, for all the great music, art and theatre they nurture.

Cast of Characters

Paul Braunstein Stephen Ramsay, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Colonel Otto Schlippenschloppen, Soldier #7

Greg Campbell Prime Minister Robert Borden, John’s Mother, General Julian Byng, British Soldier #1, Dwayne

Rick Campbell Arthur Meighen, Butler, Arthur Currie, Henri Bourassa, Soldier #3, Mabel

Kerry Ann Doherty Laura Borden, Edith Ramsay, Butler, Duchess of Connaught, Madge, General Alderson, Nurse, Soldier #2

Mac Fyfe Robert Adams, Duke of Connaught, Soldier #6, Arnold the German Prisoner, Messenger, Gas Casualty

Anand Rajaram Dave, Armand LaVergne, Sam Hughes

Dylan Roberts Dave’s Father, John aka Johnnie, Soldier #4, Foreman, Mademoiselle Armentieres, Gas Casualty

The Great War premiered at The Theatre Centre, Toronto, on June 12th, 1992.VIDEOCABARET is a member of the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts,

and engages professional Artists who are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.

THE GREAT WAR: SynopsisThe play begins in the spring of 1914 in Canada. Young men are reading Kipling or flirting with their best friend’s gal, others are raising chickens or killing raccoons. Though many cultures are struggling to maintain or establish their voicesin the national dialogue, British Canada is a well-fed young bulldog with a loud bark, large bite, and the absolute run of the place.

Sir Robert Borden is Prime Minister, having defeated Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s Liberals in the General Election of 1911.Laurier’s caucus is divided as usual by Quebec nationalists Henri Bourassa and Armand Lavergne. PM-in-waiting Arthur Meighen keeps Borden’s government tightly disciplined — all but armchair warrior, Sam Hughes, Minister of Militia and Defense.

At Rideau Hall, Queen Victoria’s son, Duke of Connaught, presides with his Prussian Duchess. The Duke is the uncle of England’s King, Russia’s Czar and Germany’s Kaiser, whose loyal empires are engaged in a family quarrel soon to be known as “the war to end all war”. With Quebec dissenting, the loyal colony of Canada sends a tenth of its population to defend the British Empire.

The play follows Canadian officers and infantrymen through the battles of the Ypres Salient, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele,the Somme, and Amiens, as the war devours ten million lives. The action features General Arthur Currie, and characters named in no history book: officers Stephen Ramsey, Robert Adams, and the heretofore unknown soldiers, Dave and John.

Through the action on the Western Front, the home front is glimpsed — Canadian soldiers storm machine-guns as conscription-resisters are shot in the streets of Quebec City. Under British Command, the Canadian forces suffer230,000 casualties, 58,000 killed, altering the colonial gestalt forever. Pride and grief kindle a desire for an independent destiny...

The play runs approximately 2hrs 5mins, which includes a fifteen minute intermission.

THE VIDEOCABARET COMPANYPaul Braunstein (Actor) Paul is back for a fourth show with VideoCabaret; others include Laurier and The Saskatchewan Rebellion. Paul has worked across Canada in theatres such as Tarragon (Alias Godot, Mimi: A Poisoner's Comedy, Kilt - Dora Nomination) Canstage (The Overcoat) Birdland Theatre (The last Days of Judas Iscariot) ATP ( Oliver Twist, Goodnight Desdemona, Goodmorning Juliet) and TheBelfry (Picasso at the Lapin Agile). This winter Paul can be seen in Universal Pictures'  The Thing Prequel and Jesus Henry Christ. Paul is also a professional drummer and the proud father of two sons, Cove and Liam.

Greg Campbell (Actor) is back for his seventh show with VideoCab. Theatre credits include Twelfth Night (Direct Flight/Gromkat), ActNow! (Toronto Fringe), Sitting Pretty (Showboat Festival), Mesa and 1949 (Theatre North West), Educating Rita and Oleanna (Theatre &Co.), Amadeus (Theatre Aquarius), The Mystery of Irma Vep (Sudbury Theatre), The Mother's Saint (TPM), and many shows at Buddies(including Suzie Goo and Tales of the Parkside). Film and TV: The Kennedys, The Listener, H2O: Trojan Horse, Mayday, Breach.

Richard Alan Campbell (Actor) This is Richard's fifth VideoCab show, lucky man. Selected theatre credits: The Taming of the Shrew(Theatre By The Bay), It's a Wonderful Life (Theatre New Brunswick), King Lear (Driftwood Theatre); The Graduate (Grand Theatre); TheMerchant of Venice, Othello, Titus Andronicus, Measure For Measure (Shakespeare in the Rough); Audience, Unveiling, Protest (The CO); Filmand TV: 5ive Girls, Charlie Bartlett, Warehouse 13. Upcoming: Ruined (Obsidian).

Kerry Ann Doherty (Actor) is positively giddy to be remounting The Great War, her third show with VideoCab. Recent Credits: LadyMacbeth in Macbeth and Mrs. Quickly in The Trouble of Dibble Street (St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival). She's also worked with TheatreColumbus, Canstage, The Citadel, Theatre by the Bay, T.I.P., Theatre & Co., Stage West, Northern Light Theatre and many more. Accoladesinclude nominations for Sterling and Dora Awards. Upcoming: Wanda's Visit (Calgary's Lunchbox Theatre). Proud member of CAEA..

Mac Fyfe (Actor) This is Mac’s second show with VideoCab. He was last seen as Louis Riel in The Saskatchewan Rebellion. Mac is excited to be back again, and under the lights of The Great War!

Anand Rajaram (Actor) is really thrilled to be back in the box with all these maniacs. Previously with VideoCab: City For Sale, Red RiverRebellion and Laurier. Other credits include The Stratford Festival, CORPUS, The Second City, Canstage and others. Film and TV Creditsinclude: Men With Brooms (The TV show!), The Dating Guy, Majority Rules and Suck.

Dylan Roberts (Actor) Proud to be back in the trench. Credits include Whistle in the Dark (Company Theatre), Zadie's Shoes (GCTC), The Lord of the Rings (Mirvish) and The Laramie Project (Studio 180). Dylan has appeared in various feature films & TV stuff. Thanks, asalways, to Shari and the Boys.

Sarah Armstrong (Costume Co-Design) is pleased to be back once again as Co-Costume Designer after 3 glorious productions withVideoCabaret. Recent designs in theatre include Clerambard at George Brown, 6 Images in Search of an Artist: Reprise at the Free Fall Festivaland the upcoming remount of STITCH at the Theatre Centre. On screen her work includes Pontypool, Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer and therecently Genie-nominated Nurse.Fighter.Boy. for which she was nominated for Best Costume Design.

Jake Blackwood (Sound Operator) is proud to work with VideoCabaret on their latest production of The Great War. Born in Toronto, Jake is a recent graduate of Humber College’s Theatre Production program. He has worked with professional theatre companies such asTarragon Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, and most recently as Production Designer for the World’s End Theatre Company’s annual summer festival on Fogo Island, Newfoundland.

Andrew Dollar (Production & Stage Manager) is excited to be involved with VideoCabaret. Recent credits: Laurier, The SaskatchewanRebellion, Canadian Pacific Scandal, Red River Rebellion (VideoCabaret), Bebe and The Trials of John Demanjuk (Theatre Asylum), The GlassMenagerie and The Fantasticks (Red Barn Theatre), Macbeth (Modern Times Stage Company) and The Drowsy Chaperone (Bestman &Mirvish Productions).

Brad Harley / Shadowland (Props) has collaborated with VideoCabaret since 1982. In 1999, 2001, 2002 Shadowland (Brad Harley, AnneBarber and Luisa Milan) won Dora Awards for the History Plays’ Costume Design. Shadowland create their own original spectacular shows,most notably in outdoor locations on Toronto Island, as well as smaller indoor works and art direction for films. Their distinctive visualtheatre uses puppetry, mask, stilt-dance, fire and live music and is often a collaboration between artists and communities. www.shadow-landtheatre.ca. Special thanks for help in the munitions factory for WWI to Bie Engelen, Anne Barber, Abby Callard and Kate Fenton.

Astrid Janson (Costume Co-Design) Work as a set, costume, and production designer has been seen on many stages across Canada as well as in the U.S. and in Europe. Recent projects include the production design for Nureyev, a dance film for television and a new balletof Alice in Wonderland for Augsburg Theater in Germany. Upcoming projects include Verdi’s Otello in Sweden. For VideoCabaret she hasdesigned the costumes for 11 productions of Michael Hollingsworth’s award winning series Village of the Small Huts.

Jim LeFrancois (Producer) is Producer for VideoCabaret & Topological Theatre, and is also writing/composing a new musical, ManitobaMusic (Working Title). From 2000 to 2009 Jim was Artistic Producer for Buddies in Bad Times. He is the recipient of a Dora Award (NewMusical, ArtHouse Cabaret), a Harold Award, and the inaugural Leonard McHardy and John Harvey Award (2008).

Laurie Merredew (Assistant Stage Manager) This is Laurie’s second show with VideoCab, as she works to obtain her apprentice credits -it has been a fabulous, wild ride! Laurie is a recent graduate of York University’s Theatre Production and Design programme, having stagemanaged several shows over her four years there, including A Play About the Other Play, part of the “Co. Ed” production.

Melanie McNeill (Assistant Costume Design / Head of Wardrobe) is glad to be back for her sixth VideoCab.  Previous Credits include: SetDesign The Last Five Years (Angelwalk Theatre), Puppet and Mask Maker Les Medicins de Moliere (TfT), Costume Design The Last Days ofJudas Iscariot (Birdland Theatre), and Assistant Costume Design Hamlet (Necessary Angel).  Up next: Set and Costume Design MadhouseVariations (Eldritch Theatre).

Andy Moro (Set, Lighting) has designed for VideoCab since 2000. He and partner Gabriella Caruso founded Red Pepper Spectacle Arts,which produces the annual Kensington Festival of Lights and theatre and arts workshops for youth across the GTA and into the Far North.He has designed several plays for Daniel MacIvor and teaches at the centre for Indigenous Theatre. He won a Dora Award for OutstandingLighting Design in 2007.

Alice Norton (Hair Artist) is delighted to collaborate once again with the stellar VideoCabaret team inspired by the inimitable MrHollingsworth. Other notable collaborations Susie Burpee, Leida Englar, Ruth Howard, Tanya Mars, Christopher Pinheiro, Angela Thomas,Shadowland Theatre and Redpepper Spectacle. Recent works include El Numero Uno (LKYPT) designer Astrid Janson; Six Images in Search of an Artist: Remix (Theatre Centre), designer Sarah Armstrong

Jim Plaxton (Lighting/Set Concept) originated the black-box concept for 12 of VideoCabaret’s History Plays 1985-1999 and won 8 Dora Awards for Set and Lighting Design.

Justin Roddy (Sound) Credits include: composer for Luggage (film by Craig McNaughton); sound designer for: Gandhi High, Crook BackDickey, 7.5, Easy, Paul Bettis’s - The Freud Project 2 and 3, Opium Eater, Club of Small Men, and Svengali; Clever Boy, DNA’s - Prelude, TheGeneral & his Ghosts, Awake and Sing, Sugar, Beating the Bushes, and Meeting Playce.  He is a co-founder of Symptom Hall & Shaved Monkey.He now runs SMAC Records.

Rick/Simon (Graphic Designer) has designed VideoCabaret’s distinctive graphic images since the earliest productions, including printedcommunications and also video-elements of numerous shows. He has long been associated with Coach House Press and is the director of Avoid Graphics. These activities are supplemented by stilt-dancing engagements in Canada, the U.S. and Trinidad.

Brent Snyder (Composer) was a gifted and prolific composer and performer. He led a dozen brilliant art-rock bands, built his own record-ing studio, and from 1981 until his death in 1993 was closely associated with VideoCabaret, performing with The Hummer Sisters and creating his masterpiece – almost 400 thematic and abstract score pieces for the 400 year arc of the History Plays. He has been nominatedfor several Dora Awards.

Patrick Wilkie (Production Assistant) This is Patrick's fourth VideoCab show. He's happy to be 'Doing His Part' in The Great War. Ready Aye Ready!

VideoCabaretBOARD OF DIRECTORS: Suzanne DePoe (President), Allan Novak,

Marni Jackson, Janet Burke, Alice Klein

ADVISORY BOARD: Jackie Burroughs (Advisor 1976-2010)

Gary Farmer, Bongo Kolycius, Leslie Lester, Christopher Pinheiro, Ceta Ramkhalawansingh

Rick Campbell tests Propmaster Brad Harley's field telephoneKerry Ann Doherty, Mac Fyfe and Paul Braunstein, Passchendaele

Costume magicians outfit The Great War

BEHIND THE SCENES PHOTOS by Deanne Taylor.

Andrew Dollar and Laurie Merredew organise the costume cosmos

Rehearsing battle scenes in the naked black box

Michael Hollingsworth & fuel

VideoCabaret's Spring 2010 Production of The Great War.Featuring Greg Campbell, Richard Alan Campbell, Richard Clarkin, Kerry Ann Doherty, Mac Fyfe, Anand Rajaram and Dylan Roberts.

Photos: Michael Cooper

VIDEOCABARET GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES...The long-term support of the

Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council, ontario Arts Counciland their commitment to the development of

original theatrical vocabulary, new plays, and strong repertoires;

The sustaining partnerships 2000-2010 of Venue Sponsor The Cameron House, Media Sponsor NoW Magazine;

The transforming donations for the company’s creative endeavours 2007-2011 from BMo Financial Group;

The recent generous donations from The Bennett Family Foundation, John McKellar Charitable Foundation, F.K.Morrow Foundation

2009-2010 ‘GREAT WAR’ DONORS

HERoESDaniel D Moses, Jim Aldridge & Vinetta Strombergs, Weldon J Thoburn, Sian Ferguson, Albert Schultz,

Paul Renton Gordon & Kathleen Agar, Ceta Ramkhalawansingh, Stephen Smith, Paul Renton, Herb Tookey, DD Kugler, Beverly Harris

TRoUPERSAnonymous, Miriam Adams, Walter & Victoria Prystawski, David McIntosh, Barbara Fingerote, Miriam Adams,

Sean Hill, Lea Jackson, Alma Gaasenbeek, Michael Cooper, Julia Stavreff, Carole Whelan, Walda Janson, Robert JohnsBob Bernecky, Richard Teminski, John & Joan Dollar, Naomi Campbell, Rita Davies, Damon & Carol Merredew

Ingrid Harms, Susan Edwards, Ken Cameron

CANNoN FoDDERLesley Byrne & Richard Bingham, Michael J Sidnell, Russell Hann, Patricia Howard, David Fox, Barbara Thompson

Chris Mueller, Barbara Yip, Jonathan Rubin, Jay Macpherson, Mary Finlay, Mark Czarnecki, A. Teper, Anne FarquarsonElsie Dollekamp, William & Hilary Dawson, Eloise Thurier, Owen Anderson, Lillian Roth, Larry Lewis, Alan Carlisle

HUNSLesley Byrne & Richard Bingham, Walter & Victoria Prystawski, Owen Anderson, Lillian Roth

Mary Finlay, Mark Czarnecki

HELP VIDEOCAB WIN THE WAR ON CULTURAL AMNESIA...

VideoCabaret's 2010-2011 Fundraising Drive is underway ... on the chance you've won a huge lottery, and are thinking 'legacy, legacy, legacy,' we've added some new categories - outlined on the donation slip inserted in your Playbill. A special

acknowledgment to our first Donors of the Season: ''Drama King' Peter Dalton, 'Drama Queen' Pat Dalton, 'Art Snob' Marni Jackson, 'Art Peasant' Susan Edwards & 'Top Fan' Brooke Johnson.

All donors are acknowledged in a programme insert, updated on a weekly basis. Donors receive a Charitable Tax Receipt for the full amount of their contribution.

ALLiESAllan Novak, Cathy & Barry Joslin

SECRET WEAPoNSJackie Burroughs, Tony Benattar, L. Clare

VideoCabaret's 2010-11 season includes many development projects, plus a few choice performances which you will hear about if you are on our email list (drop us a line at videocab@total.net to join the list):

GUEST PLAYMAKERSVideoCabaret continues to provide seed money and space for creators to develop new plays over many lively sessions – with no table readings allowed. Andrea Donaldson, Mac Fyfe, Ravi Jain, Anand Rajaram, Rebecca Singh and their casts develop new work in multi-day staging sessions in the VideoCab Studio.

NEXT UP IN THE STUDIO

January 2011SATYAJiT RAY PRoJECT

written by Satyajit Ray directed by Ravi Jain

Why Not Theatrewww.theatrewhynot.org

February 2011SWiTCHED

written by Anna Chatterton with Andrea Donaldsondirected by Allyson McMackon

performers Anna Chatterton, Andrea Donaldson, Viv Moore, Frank Cox O'Connellwww.sometimesandrea.com

Spring 2011BLACK BoX SESSioNS

Eight 'tech'-starved directors 'see the light' in a 5-day masterclass in the joys of staging with precision lighting, abettedby black-box-seasoned actors and designer Andy Moro. Participating Directors from the past two seasons includedHerbie Barnes, Tara Beagan, Paul Braunstein, Greg Campbell, Andrea Donaldson, Shari Hollett, Alistair Newton,

Mark Prince, Misha Schulman, Mac Fyfe, Marie Beath Badian, Adam Paolazzo and Aviva Armour-Ostroff.

The Sessions are not designed to promote VideoCab's specific form of 'black-box' nor our unique style; rather, to explore the widely adaptable principles that inform it: integrate 'full tech' into rehearsal,

light actors rather than sets, act for the audience, use words and sound, light and costume, to conjure place and time in the audience's imagination.

Winter-Spring 2011ARTiSTiC DiRECToRS' PLAYS

Michael Hollingsworth and the ensemble work in-house on The Life & Times of MacKenzie King, and a new spin-off, La Belle Epoque which explores King's early life in all its mother-loving, prostitute-reforming, greasy-pole-climbing glory.

Two scripts by Deanne Taylor will be pried from her hands, and aired by fine actors until stageworthy. The Dora-winning Hollingsworth-Taylor libretto for Verdi's Rigoletto will be showcased-in-the-rough.

COME BACK TO ENJOYTHE CAMERON HOUSE BANDS

The Cameron House echoes with the sounds of Molly Johnson, Ron Sexsmith, Blue Rodeo, Big Sugar, Mary Margaret O’Hara, Rebecca Jenkins,John Alcorn, David Ramsden, Holly Cole, TheBarenaked Ladies, Jane Siberry and many moreplayers of note.

Every six months a star is born on the stagesof this legendary club. And every bar has its regulars.

Ours, in true CameronTradition range from classic jazzto old-time country, and from swing to celtic mariachi. You’ll find them right here,most nights of most weeks.

For weekly information consult NOW Listings, or visit www.thecameron.com or telephone 416-703-0811

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LISTINGSMonday  6pm Betty Stew

10pm The Strumbellas

Tuesday  6pm Jadea Kelly10pm Luke Nicholson

Wednesday 6pm Joshua Cockerill10pm Devin Cuddy

Thursday 6pm Corin Raymond10pm Shotgun Wedding Band

Friday 6pm David Celia 10pm Kayla Howran

Saturday 6pm GOOD OL' COUNTRY MUSIC(Different acts each week)

10pm Ferraro

Sunday 9pm Kevin Quain and The Mad Bastards

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