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Summer 2009
David French's "A Soldier's Heart"
Opening night - 11 July
Dates for Summer 2009
July - 11, 15, 17, 23, 25, 29, 31
August - 01, 06, 07, 09, 11, 27, 29
All performance start at 7:30 P.M. except the August 09 performance will be an afternoon performance starting at 2:30 P.M.
Director - Marc Warren
Marc Warren will be playing the role of Esau Mercer.
John Ryan will be playing the role of Bay Roberts station agent Bert Taylor.
Evan Mercer playing will be playing Esau's son Jacob Mercer.
Individual tickets for each play are $15.00 including HST.
Private shows are available when you “Book the Playhouse”. Available for groups up to 70 people for $600.00. This would include a performance of the play including access to the cast, a tour of the Museum and the use of our kitchen facilities.
Dramatic Cycle about the Mercer Family David French's award-winning and ongoing dramatic cycle about the Mercer family, both in their native Newfoundland and later relocated in Toronto, has become a defining part of Canada's theatrical history.
About "A Soldier's Heart" With Soldier's Heart , French looks back in time at the thoroughly alienated sixteen-year-old Jacob, standing on a railway platform, his suitcase and one-way ticket away from home in hand. His father Esau, a veteran of the First World War, rushes to the station in a last-ditch effort to persuade his son not to leave. Unable to speak of what had happened in the Great War since his return, Esau begins, in halting and tentative language to tell of his comrades and his brother, their training in Scotland, the agony of Gallipoli, and finally the formative events at the Battle of the Somme at Beaumont Hamel.
At first defensive in response to his son's probing and impatient questioning, Esau's answers evolve into stories of pride, foolishness, anger, desperation, and finally mindless terror, leaving only the image of a man driven by the blind animal instinct to survive.
It is this devastating and unsparing account of all that is in a soldier's heart, that finally brings father and son back together. David French to Visit in July
In late July (dates have not been confirmed), David French is coming to Bay Roberts.
At that time, "A Soldier's Heart" will be performed at Ascension Collegiate, in conjunction with a book signing and a meet and greet.
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New Poster for 2009
A Soldier's Heart
Bay Roberts Railway Station
Provincial Heritage Structure
Setting for Play
At the Station
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