Entertaining the Shuswap since 1977!
Community enrichment • Diverse and inspiring live entertainment • opportunities for creative dramatic experience
February 21 – March 9, 2025
Dr. Sean Merrit wanders into the small town of Stewiacke, Nova Scotia, exactly halfway between the equator and the North Pole. Recently dumped by his fiancée, he’s looking for a new start and soon meets four local women, each with their own colourful life stories. Laughter, tears and the power of true friendship…more…
February 26, 7 pm
It’s June 1981. Farmers face a debt crisis with interest rates as high as 20 percent. More than three hundred men are arrested following police sweeps of Toronto bathhouses, yet Pride Toronto launches its first gay-pride parade. Everything’s changing, including fifteen-year-old Esther, who escapes the family farm and runs away to the city. With the help of a brash young hustler and a gay activist who shelters street kids, she confronts her conservative-Christian parents – farmers on the brink of financial ruin – and begins to find her way home.
Leanna Brodie’s play The Book of Esther is filled with tenderness, heart, and humour. It is also an eloquent plea for understanding. It posits that people who feel they are very much on the opposite ends of the belief spectrum can learn to understand human difference.
– Sky Gilbert, playwright and founder of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.
By Kate Hennig
Directed by Elizabeth Ann Skelhorne
Fifteen-year-old Bess has no idea, when she heads to London to see her uncle Ted, that she is about to find herself at the heart of a scandal involving sexual impropriety, her stepfather, and an attempted overthrow of the government. How adroitly can the future Queen Elizabeth maneuver to avoid being swept up in the peril that might ensue?
Theatre on the Edge, Salmon Arm’s only annual theatre festival, invites your application to perform at TotE-Fest 2025, happening June 13 – 15.
Are you a theatre artist? Do you have a show to share with an audience? Maybe a work in development or some slam poetry? Check out all the details on the TotE website.
Theatre on the Edge is a co-production of Shuswap Theatre and the Salmon Arm Arts Centre.
Deadline for applications – March 30, 2025
