There isn't just a new season, there's a whole new production team at Theatre North West all set for next fall.
After 17 years founders Ted Price and Anne Laughlin are passing the leadership on to Samantha MacDonald and her production team.
Price will make his directorial return for Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon, the last play of the season.
The first play of the season is Becky's New Car by Steven Dietz presented from Sept. 29 to Oct. 16. Becky Foster is caught in middle age, middle management and a middling marriage, with no prospects for change. She's got more than 20 years invested in her marriage and motherhood and nine years at a car dealership. Walter, a millionaire widower, drives onto the scene and the audience gets to follow this charming and original comedy as Becky is steered in a whole new direction.
Home Ice by James O'Shea, presented from Nov. 17 to Dec. 4, combines hockey, a master's thesis, home renovations and humour. The play is a mesh of Holmes on Homes and Coaches' Corner with main characters Clayton and Vera expecting a baby while she is defending her thesis on visual art and he is trying to surprise her with a new kitchen. Throw in the buddy who just wants to watch the playoffs and the audience finds Clayton on thin ice in an unexpected and hilarious way.
The Clockmaker, presented from Feb. 9 to 26, is a mystery, thriller love story by Stephen Massicotte. The play tells the story of Heinrich Mann, a humble clockmaker who falls in love with a married woman and becomes enmeshed in a mysterious crime. Bending the realities of time and place, the Clockmaker is a story about the transcendent power of love that will keep the audience guessing right up until the end.
Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon, presented from April 19 to May 6 finds the Jerome family straining at the seams of their small Brooklyn home in 1937. The family gets in each other's way while firmly being lodged in one another's hearts. Eugene is a 15-year-old Yankees' fan and fledgling writer who wants to write the great American novel, pitch for the Yankees and see a girl naked -- not necessarily in that order. Perhaps Simon's best play, Brighton Beach Memoirs is a hiliarious and touching portrait of family life.
