Don Quixote
Axis Theatre Company collaborated with the Arts Club Theatre on a new version of the classic tale Don Quixote, continuing at Surrey Arts Centre’s mainstage until Jan. 28.
Masks – created by Melody Anderson – play an important role in the new production, co-adapted by Colin Heath and lead performer Peter Anderson. With them a small troupe recreates the comical and philosophical world of Miguel de Cervantes’ elderly country gentleman, who has become so obsessed with accounts of knighthood and chivalry that he sets out on his own quest to defend the helpless and destroy the wicked.
For reservations, and more information on the Surrey run, call 604-501-5566.
Twenties mystery
Crescent Beach’s Beecher Street Cafe is presenting another in the popular series of murder mystery evenings by Grim Reaper: Who Stiffed Sammy? (Thursday, Jan. 26, 7 p.m. at the cafe).
Producer Trevor Jenkins is offering to take everybody “back to the Roaring Twenties for a rollicking gangster-and-gunmoll-era period show” which blends participatory mystery game, live theatre, fine dining and prizes.
Beecher Street Cafe will become a speakeasy for the evening as participants help unravel the mystery of who pumped gangland chieftan Sammy Nitti full of lead that morning.
Diners are invited to don gunman and flapper costumes appropriate for meeting such suspects as Sweet Nelly Kelly; Texas (the Queen of the Nightclubs); Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.
Cost per person is $55 (including meal, but not including HST and gratuity). For reservations, call 604-538-1964.
Library reading
White Rock-based social justice activist Pummy Kaur – author of the best-selling What Would Gandhi Do? – will read from her latest book, A Season of Non-Violence: 64 Ways for 64 Days, Monday, Jan. 30 at 7 p.m. at White Rock Library, 15342 Buena Vista Ave.
Kaur outlines 64 suggestions for peace-promoting activities; one for each of the 64 days between the anniversaries of the assassinations of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
To pre-register (recommended), call 604-541-2201.
Players Club
First show of the year in the current White Rock Players Club season at Coast Capital Playhouse (1532 Johnston Rd.) is Norm Foster’s Drinking Alone, directed by Susanne de Pencier, running Feb. 8 to Feb 25.
Relying on the grand old standby of playwriting – the family reunion – Foster’s situation comedy centres on the uneasy meeting of two adult children with their long-estranged father, with new wife in tow, after 15 years of virtually no contact.
For tickets and show time information, visit www.whiterockplayers.ca or call 604-536-7535.
