‘Sleigh bells ring, are you listening? In the lane, snow is glistening.’
Lyrics from “Winter Wonderland” and other holiday classics will fill Eagle Eye Community Theatre this weekend.
Between Shifts Theatre presents A Howe Sound Noel Dec. 8 to 10, a collaboration with Sea ‘T’ Sky Big Band and Sweet Harmony Chorus.
“It is a combination of music and carol singing and stories and readings,” said Kathryn Daniels, co-director and producer of the performance. “It is sort of a comfortable, kind of folksy Christmas evening for the whole family.”
Daniels is co-directing Howe Sound Noel with Carla Fuhre.
Readings will include, among others, A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas and A Visit from St. Nicholas, commonly known as the ‘Twas a night before Christmas poem by Clement Clarke Moore.
This is the first time such an evening has been presented by the theatre company, Daniels said.
“We’ve never done something like that here and I cannot remember the last time when a bunch of different groups got together to do something,” she said.
The audience will be encouraged to sing along, according to Daniels.
The cast of 40 includes: Darcey Kirkpatrick, who was in The Patron Saint of Stanley Park;” Whitney Keyes, who is a drama teacher at Don Ross Secondary School; Paige Sotham, an actress who has recently returned to Squamish after years away and Harvey Spivey, who played Serge in the Between the Shifts play, Art last spring. Young local actors gracing the stage for the evening are Lara Mullings, Sonoma Brawley and Katie Moran.
Daniels was last seen playing Sonia in the Between Shifts Theatre play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike in October.
“It is nice to just act,” she said of playing bored, middle-aged sibling Sonia.
“Producing and directing are just huge, huge jobs.”
After this productions Daniels will be focusing on starring as Annie Iversen in the upcoming performance of Kayak, written by Jordan Hall, which is slated to run at Eagle Eye in the spring.
“The main character, Annie, who I am going to play, is a mom who ends up stranded in her son’s old kayak,” Daniels explained.
“Her son has become involved with a very pro-activist young woman who puts herself in peril and danger to try and make statements about climate change and saving the world. She is watching her son fall in love with her and getting in danger himself.”
Kayak will run March 30 to April 1 and 5 to 8.
For more on either of the performances go to www.betweenshiftstheatre.com.
