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Great Canadian Theatre Company (GCTC)
\nMarch 7 – 26, 2006
\nPerformance viewed: March16<\/p>\n
James Gilbert: Thomas
\nSarah McVie: Sonja
\nMaureen Smith: Catherine
\nPatricia Tedford: Alex<\/p>\n
Directed by Kate Hurman
\nSet & Costume Design by Lorenzo Savoini
\nLighting Design by Rebecca Picherack
\nStage Manager: Kevin Waghorn\n<\/p>\n
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This play in verse presents us quite a feat:
\nIt entertains in rhyming couplets sweet;
\nWhen Oliver betook herself the task,
\nMethinks she wondered if it was too vast.
\nBut let me set you right at once, my heart:
\nThis play is witty, topical and smart.
\nI loved the set, both first and second acts\u2019:
\nThe cartoon look, perspective twisting flats,
\nAnd costumes, which I really liked a lot
\nNot only right, but working with the plot!
\n\u2014 The gown on which in Act I Sonja labored
\nIn Act II helped her win her true love\u2019s favor.
\nBut know in comedies such is the case
\nThat oft the lovers run a counter-race
\nAnd spend their heart\u2019s desire pursuing folly
\nNot realizing that their love\u2019s an other dolly.
\nSo it was here. And in that way beguiling
\nEach lover chased another without smiling
\nFor such was loss, all piteous were the lovers
\nUntil the end when out of every cupboard
\nSprang love\u2019s delight expressed by every thespian
\nIn ways so true we wondered not they\u2019re lesbians!
\nAnd I should state in terms as true and certain
\nI heard each word so clear, Director Hurman!
\nYou measured out the playwright\u2019s art and wit
\nAnd breathed life into every part of it!
\nNow, actors: over top was Mr. Gilbert
\nAnd for the tone his art was bravo perfect;
\nAnd Ms McVie was vivid in her part
\nWhich was, most saucily to play the tart!
\nIn passion, and in bosoms prizes go
\nTo Tedford who unwrapped her art so slow . . .
\nAnd certainly in patience Smith was apt
\nWhose character could finish others\u2019 craft.
\nBut if you think this play was just a farce
\nThink deeper for behind the laughs the art
\nWas focusing on love and issues real
\nThat entertained us with crusader\u2019s zeal
\nAnd kept us laughing while we understood
\nThat love and tenderness are just as good
\nIn any stance between true lovers dear
\nAnd that is true: our firm applause made clear.
\nNow all that\u2019s left for me at her request
\nIs write a poem for Sonja, well express\u2019d.<\/p>\n
Couplet Sonnet for Sonja
\nAh, wondrous woman clasped so close my heart
\nI wish that I could think you weren\u2019t a tart!
\nYour lips so sweet and full and ripe and red
\nAre drawing me to think of rhymes for bed!<\/p>\n
And if, sweet Sonja, I were wearing blue
\nI\u2019d wonder if another word would do
\nTo help me satisfy my longing dear
\nAnd steal you from young Thomas who seems queer<\/p>\n
The dress he wears is sewn by thine own hand
\nAnd yet he is so pretty: is he man?
\nOh, look at me and honor mine estate
\nFor I shall give thee all just for a date.<\/p>\n
Oh, shit! I think my laptop has just crashed
\nIs there another way? Will you take cash?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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