Eatdrink #73 September/October 2018
The LOCAL food and drink magazine serving London, Stratford & Southwestern Ontario since 2007
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eatdrink: The Local Food & Drink Magazine<br />
transformed into an artisanal market with local<br />
vendors, artists, carolers and more, including<br />
treats and cider. This is sure to warm your holiday<br />
season!<br />
Our American neighbours bring us the<br />
Pulitzer Prize-winning production of August<br />
Wilson’s Fences, March 19 to April 6. This is a<br />
look at Pittsburgh in the 1950s through the<br />
eyes of a former Negro League baseball star,<br />
now a garbage collector.<br />
National<br />
The Grand has a focus on global and local<br />
stories, as well as being proudly national with<br />
the beloved story of Maggie & Pierre as well<br />
as Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, which is<br />
directed by Canadian Megan Follows.<br />
If you reach far enough back in the time<br />
machine you will remember Follows as Anne<br />
of Green Gables, or as Juliet at the Stratford<br />
Festival opposite a young Antoni Cimolino.<br />
This Canadian-made story retells Homer’s<br />
Odyssey through the eyes of Penelope, the wife<br />
of Odysseus. It runs January 22 to February 9.<br />
For those with long theatrical memories<br />
or who were swept up in Trudeaumania, the<br />
nostalgic show of the season will be Maggie<br />
& Pierre. This epic Canadian love story runs<br />
February 12 to 23, and has already been<br />
extended. The one-woman show tells the story<br />
of a young Maggie Sinclair falling in love with<br />
Canada’s dashing, and much older, Prime<br />
Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau. I first saw this<br />
as a teenager in Toronto and can’t wait to see<br />
it again decades later! It stars Kaitlyn Riordan<br />
who portrays many characters, including the<br />
love-struck couple, their parents, members of<br />
the media, and more.<br />
Timothy Findley’s The Wars runs from <strong>October</strong> 23 to, fittingly,<br />
November 11, the 100th anniversary of The Great War.<br />
PortStanley FestivalTheatre<br />
IMPROV<br />
NIGHT<br />
Cash Bar, Appezers & Laughs!<br />
Join Us for a Night of Holiday Improv<br />
Saturday December 1 8pm<br />
LINK theatre & PortStanleyFestivalTheatre<br />
presents a really Retro<br />
CROONER Christmas<br />
featuring Rick Kish<br />
& Connor Boa<br />
with those<br />
fabulous Croonettes<br />
&The Nevin<br />
Campbell Trio<br />
Saturday December 8<br />
2pm & 8pm<br />
$<br />
30* PER TICKET OR<br />
BUY BOTH EVENTS FOR $ 50*<br />
these Events are PSFT Fundraisers<br />
*Prices subject to HST/Handling<br />
To Purchase Tickets<br />
519-782-4353 www.ps.ca<br />
acknowledgment of the 100th anniversary of<br />
the end of WWI, known as the war that was<br />
supposed to end all wars. This fittingly runs<br />
in the weeks leading up to Remembrance Day,<br />
<strong>October</strong> 23 to November 11 — a poignant day<br />
to close the show. There will be several events<br />
around this production including a pre-show<br />
theatre talk on November 7 at noon by James<br />
Reaney, long-time London Free Press arts<br />
writer (now retired).<br />
Another Ontario journalist, Ian<br />
Brown (CBC, Globe and Mail), brings<br />
us The Boy in the Moon, November<br />
20 to December 1. It is based on a<br />
true story of a family that includes a<br />
severely disabled son, Walker.<br />
The Grand season wraps up with<br />
the feel-good musical, Mamma Mia!<br />
April 23 to May 11, 2019. The music of<br />
Abba, and a complicated love/family<br />
story will take us into the summer on<br />
a high note!<br />
A “world curious” production with a<br />
national slant is The Wars by Timothy Findley.<br />
Adapted and directed by Garnhum, it is his<br />
JANE ANTONIAK is a regular contributor to <strong>Eatdrink</strong>.<br />
She is also Manager, Communications & Media Relations,<br />
at King’s University College in London.