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performances at Nanaimo Centre Stage, 25 Victoria Rd. Audience Advisory: Adult language and themes Tickets: Thursday, March 29th performance only: Adults $20, Seniors (65+) $18, Students $10 ALL OTHER PERFORMANCES: Adults $22, Seniors (65+) $20, Students $12 Featuring:
Directed by Frank Moher Dry the Rain is part of the 2012 New Waves Festival. |
Agnes and Clayton may be the liveliest couple in their economy retirement home, but that doesn't make them adorable or, heaven help us, loveable. "Just because we shrink and we move slowly and you see us on TV handing out Werther's originals," Agnes tells David, their very earnest caregiver, "doesn't mean we are sweet. Old people are still people. We can still lie and cheat and hit you with our walkers."
Still, you'll be hard-pressed not to fall in love with them anyway, as Agnes and Clayton help David sort through his mixed-up marriage, and cling to their own 60-year love affair, even as age and time seem to want to take everything else away. Funny, clear-eyed, and with an ending that will make your heart race, Dry the Rain is the finest comedy-drama about "seniority" since The Gin Game. Fully-staged, it is the centrepiece of our 2012 New Waves Festival, which also features staged readings of new plays by some of BC's best and brightest playwrights. Your ticket to Dry the Rain also admits you to all other Festival events! Click here to buy your tickets to Dry the Rain right now! Tickets: phone 250-668-0991 (Nanaimo) or  Dry the Rain is generously sponsored by The Howard Johnson Harbourside Hotel, Nanaimo
 The 2012 New Waves Festival is sponsored by The Vancouver Island University Department of Creative Writing and Journalism and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
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