Plays & Pie

Plays & Pie

Western Edge’s popular Plays & Pie series of staged readings returns March 7th with It Is Solved by Walking by Governor-General’s Award-winning playwright Catherine Banks.

At Plays & Pie, smart contemporary scripts and some of the Nanaimo-area’s finest actors, thinking fast on their feet, make for a lively evening. Each staged reading is rehearsed once and then performed script-in-hand, for an audience that is also invited to enjoy a scrumptious spread of desserts during and after the show. It’s theatre hot out of the oven.

In It Is Solved by Walking, Margaret, a writer, learns of the death of her ex-husband and is prompted to memories of their sexual history together — beautiful, ordinary, and painful. She is aided in her recollections by the great, and also late, poet Wallace Stevens, a guiding voice in her head for 25 years. The Calgary Herald calls It is Solved by Walking, “A beautifully written and bountiful play.”

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The Plays & Pie staged reading features two of Vancouver Island’s most distinguished actors, Michael Armstrong and Tamara McCarthy. Michael, besides his many acting credits, including at Victoria’s Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre and most recently in Schmooze Productions’ A Christmas Carol, wrote and directed Western Edge’s Extended Wings, premiered in Fall 2018. Tamara directed our 2019 production of Between the Sheets and the recent Rusticate Theatre production of The Double Axe Murders in Vancouver, and was also seen in TheatreOne’s With Glowing Hearts.

Both Nanaimo residents, Michael and Tamara brought the script of It Is Solved by Walking to Western Edge artistic director Brian March with the hope of performing it together, and we’re delighted to be making that happen!

It Is Solved by Walking is presented Saturday, March 7th at 7:30 pm at Kismet Theatre Academy (55 Victoria Rd., Nanaimo, next door to Harbour City Theatre, see map here). Tickets cost $12, available online by clicking here or by phone at 250-816-6459. Tickets are also on sale at the door as available.

Subscribers or flex-pass holders to Western Edge Theatre’s 2019-20 season are admitted free to all Plays & Pie readings, and are encouraged to reserve in advance by e-mailing boxoffice@westernedge.org or phoning 250-816-6459. Note: If you are a subscriber or flex-pass holder, you can only reserve and receive free admission to this event by e-mailing or phoning us. Our online ticketing page is for new ticket purchases only. Each subscriber or flex-pass holder receives one free admission to each Plays & Pie reading per subscription or flex-pass held.

Western Edge Theatre’s 2019-20 season is sponsored by Romper Room Indoor Rock Climbing Centre, InPrint Graphic Design and Printing, and the Nanaimo News-Bulletin. It is also made possible by financial support from the City of Nanaimo and the Province of British Columbia.

CLICK HERE TO BUY YOUR TICKETS TO IT IS SOLVED BY WALKING RIGHT NOW!
or phone 250-816-6459