Village Squire, 1978-01, Page 27complex. The Queen Elizabeth Theatre
seats 2820 and the Orpheum accommo-
dates 2788.
The 1977-78 Playhouse season spans
centuries of theatre works including:
George Bernard Shaw's, Pygmalion;
Joseph Kesserling's, Arsenic and Old
Lace; Sophocles'. Oedipus; Arnold Wes-
ker's, The Kitchen and William Shake-
speare's, Twelfth Night.
Edmonton, Alberta's Citadel Theatre,
founded in 1965 as a non-profit
organization, blossomed into a new
complex in November. 1976 housing three
theatres, a restaurant. workshops and
rehearsal space.
The largest theatre in the complex, the
Shoctor Theatre, has a capacity of 684
while the Rice Theatre, with its flexible
seating arrangement can accommodate 142
to 208 depending on type of production.
The Shoctor Theatre season opened in
October with Samuel Beckett's Happy
Days, to be followed by Oscar Wilde's, The
Importance of Being Earnest, which plays
with the classic gambit of mistaken
identity; and Shaw's PXgmalion. Alan
Ayckbourn's play Bedroom Farce makes its
North American premiere at the Citadel.
Feb. 1 to 26.
This season, 1977-78, marks the 20th
anniversary of the Manitoba Theatre
Centre.
The MTC anniversary season opened in
October with a specially commissi9ned
work about prairie life, The Last Chalice,
by Canadian playwright, Joanna Glass.
Other works in this season's program
include: Jules Feiffer's madcap, Knock
Knock; David Storey's, The Contractor;
Tennessee Williams', The Night of the
Iguana; and the Royal Hunt of the Sun, by
Peter Shaffer.
Canada's capital, Ottawa, is home to one
of North America's finest theatre complex-
es, the National Arts Centre. Completed in
the spring of 1969, the Centre includes a
2300 -seat opera house, a 900 -seat theatre,
an experimental studio, a salon, restaur-
ant, cafe, bookshop and 900 -car garage.
The Opera, most impressive of the
Centre's three halls, has the most
advanced sound and lighting system
guaranteeing a high level of technical
excellence.
The semi -circular Theatre's technical
facilities, like the Opera's, rank with the
best in the world.
The 1977-78 theatre season at the NAC
promises to be most entertaining.
Same Time Next Year, by Bernard Slade
opened the season with .the saga of a
30 -year love affair between two people who
are married, but not to each other.
Other presentations to be seen during
1977/78 are: Floralie, Where Are You?, by
Roch Carrier; Shakespeare's Troilus and
Cressida; Camino Real by Tennessee
Williams and William Schwenck and
Arthur Who? which examines the
application of Gilbert and Sullivan's works
to the musical scope and styles of the last
100 years. An enormous task for creators
Alan Laing and John Wood.
Halifax. Nova Scotia's Neptune Theatre
refers to their 1977-78 schedule as their
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"get up and go season." Neptune's season
includes George Bernard Shaw's, Arms'
and the Man; an original production of
Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow
Queen for the Christmas season; Neil
Simon's, The Gingerbread Lady; Henrik
Ibsen's A Doll's House; Bernard Slade's,
Same Time Next Year; Carlo Goldoni's,
Mistress of the Inn; and Noel Coward's,
Tonight at 8:30.
The Playhouse opened in Sept. 1964 is
the home of Theatre New Brunswick and
the Theatre New Brunswick Young
Company. The Playhouse was a gift of the
late Lord Beaverbrook to the province of
New Brunswick.
Theatre New Brunswick, the province's
first and only professional theatre
approaches the 1977-78 season with an
ambition schedule of performances. Their
tenth season highlights are A Sherlock
Holmes Adventure, Vanities, Sizwe Bansi
is Dead and Man of La Mancha.
Canadians and visitors across the
country will be submerged in culture this
fall/winter, 1977-78. For general informa-
tion on Canada as a travel destination
contact the Canadian Government Office of
Tourism, Ottawa, Canada, K1A OH6.
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