New Edinburgh Players

Celebrate 30 years

 “A little over half of the Player's life has been spent in their "new" home, being MacKay United Church where we moved from the former Crichton Street School in 1992.  And we are looking forward to many more joyful events at these premises.”   Ingrid McCarthy, Director and Producer

 In January of each year the New Edinburgh Players start rehearsing for the annual production.  Tickets are sold by various groups with the proceeds benefiting charitable organizations.  St. Bartholomew’s Church supports Harmony House and The Bale (adult literacy programme); ECOEQUITABLE INC. (a work training program aimed mainly at immigrant women); Jane Caskey distributes tickets to Amethyst House (women’s treatment centre for drug and alcohol abuse), Serenity Renewal for Families (addiction treatment centre), the Breast Cancer Network and Citizen Advocacy; Salus (supporting housing for disabled); and especially MacKay which is a major beneficiary.

Enchanted April

By Mathew Barber

From the novel by Elizabeth Von Arnim  

April 23**, 24, 25

April 30, May 1**, 2

7:30 pm in the MacKay Memorial Hall Theatre

**MacKay Nights when ticket sales go

to MacKay United.

Tickets $15 available March 1

 Enchanted April is a play about the power of nature and nurture.  Two women, so unhappily married, so degraded, so self-righteous, find each other and then escape to Italy, to an advertised castle, because the artistic, young property owner has placed an advertisement. Along with these two not-so-old escapees, are an elderly dowager and a young seductress. Husbands appear, and there is hilarity and the element of timing and slapstick that enervates the bucolic setting of Italy, after the stark British interiors set with two tables and chairs that become two households, a ladies Club library, and a train.