County Roads Theatre Company is a small group of mostly Prince Edward County residents with a passion for telling important stories through small independent professional theatre productions. In 2017, we presented The Belle of Amherst, a one-woman show about the life of poet Emily Dickinson. Featuring Joan McBride as Emily and directed by Fred Robinson, the show ran for two weeks at Mount Tabor Playhouse. Audiences loved the play.
In September 2019 we presented Norm Foster’s On A First Name Basis. Staged at Mount Tabor Playhouse, directed by Fred Robinson, and starring County resident and professional actor Joan McBride, and Ottawa based professional actor John Koensgen, this cleverly written play had audiences laughing out loud and moved to tears.
In September 2022 we presented Collected Stories by American playwright Donald Margulies, directed by County resident Fred Robinson. A wonderful, intimate character study of relationships and the shifting power dynamics between teacher and student, Collected Stories looks at how time, truth, and art challenge and change people and their relationships. That teacher-student relationship was given palpable depth on stage by County residents and professional actors Joan McBride and Melissa Paulson who were themselves teacher and student years ago at John Abbott College’s Professional Theatre Department.
In September 2024 we will be bringing to Mount Tabor Playhouse Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking. Joan Didion lost first her husband and then 16 months later their only daughter, and she wrote this play to help us walk with grief as our companion. Anyone who has experienced loss will find resonance and encouragement in Didion’s exquisitely shared story, and no one will fail to be moved by this play. Joan McBride is directing as well as acting in this one-woman show, supported by Assistant Director Melissa Paulson.
The play opens on September 26th, 2024, and runs until October 6th. For more information and tickets visit our website.
This is a Canadian Actors’ Equity Association production under the Artists’ Collective Policy.
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