Finishing their successful 42nd season, the Elora Community Theatre group welcomes spring to Centre Wellington with a presentation of the Canadian play Spring Planting. Written by award-winning playwright, Kit Brennan show opens on May 1 at the Fergus Grand Theatre.
The play, which runs until May 10 features characters, ranging from 16 to 80, grappling with life’s challenges at all ages. Spring Planting reveals the journeys of four people, mother and daughter, grandfather and grandson. The confidence of youth combines with the wisdom of age in this moving story that appeals to the heart and mind as well as the funny bone.
Family values and friendship cultivate the seeds of happiness, guilt and anger. These “spring plantings” either thrive or are swept away by the events that unfold as the story of two neighbouring families evolves. The characters struggle with the dilemma of figuring out which roots are the weeds and which are the shoots worth looking after in the garden of life.
Actors from Wellington County bring these characters to life stage. Well-known veteran actor Patrick C. Smith from Harriston, Tammy Smits of Rockwood, a newcomer to ECT but not to theatre, and familiar faces from previous ECT shows, Acey Kaspar and Sammy Beynon, both of Fergus, take on the Spring Planting roles.
The director is Bronwyn Allen-Hill, who has directed and acted in many successful ECT shows, the most recent being the award winning play Self-Help.
Tickets for Spring Planting are available now online at www.fergusgrandtheatre.ca or call the box office at 519-787-1981.
Reduced prices for seniors, students, groups and season are available.
