Globe and Mail
One summer, in an old stone fireplace beside her family cottage, a little girl discovers a letter from a delightfully self-absorbed Inca fairy princess. This begins a poignant friendship between the child, the princess and an elderly neighbor, to whom the fairy dictates her letters. From the acclaimed memoir by the same author.
Directed by Denise Oucharek and starring Myrna McBrien, Robyn Ord, and Vince Carlin.
This show runs from November 14 to November 18, 2017 at the Staircase Theatre Hamilton On.
Festival Antigonish July 2017
CURRENT PRODUCTION
Kingfisher Days
by Susan Coyne
"In 90 minutes, the story shows humanity's gentleness at it's best.But the play also allows us to reach back into our own childhood, when we believed in fairies and the powers of our imagination." -Audience member
Susan Coyne is a Canadian writer and actress. She is one of the co-creators and co-stars of the award-winning Slings and Arrows., L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables (TV movie). She spent several seasons at the Stratford Festival, she is a founding members of the Soulpepper Theatre Company and is currently a playwright-in-residence at the Tarragon Theatre. Her two best-known plays are Kingfisher Days, an adaptation of her critically acclaimed memoir of the same name, and Alice's Affair. In 2017 she was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada by the Governor General for her contributions to Canadian theatre, film and television as an actor and writer.
"... the subject of Kingfisher Days -- treated with wit, with a certain wistful sadness, and with a blessed absence of solemnity -- is the power of a child's imagination. It was the late Urjo Kareda who encouraged Susan Coyne to turn her charming book into a charming play. And she has done exactly that. -David MacFarlane