鈥�Sleigh bells ring, are you listening? In the lane, snow is glistening.鈥櫬�
聽 Lyrics from 鈥淲inter Wonderland鈥� 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 鈥楾鈥� Sky Big Band and Sweet Harmony Chorus.
鈥淚t is a combination of music and carol singing and stories and readings,鈥� said Kathryn Daniels, co-director and producer of the performance. 鈥淚t is sort of a comfortable, kind of folksy Christmas evening for the whole family.鈥澛�
Daniels is co-directing Howe Sound Noel with Carla Fuhre.
Readings will include, among others, A Child鈥檚 Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas and A Visit from St. Nicholas, commonly known as the 鈥楾was a night before Christmas poem by Clement Clarke Moore.聽
This is the first time such an evening has been presented by the theatre company, Daniels said.聽
鈥淲e鈥檝e never done something like that here and I cannot remember the last time when a bunch of different groups got together to do something,鈥� she said.聽
聽The audience will be encouraged to sing along, according to Daniels.聽
The cast of 40 includes: Darcey Kirkpatrick, who was in The聽Patron Saint聽of Stanley Park;鈥� 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.
鈥淚t is nice to just act,鈥� she said of playing bored, middle-aged sibling Sonia.聽
鈥淧roducing and directing are just huge, huge jobs.鈥澛�
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.聽
鈥淭he main character, Annie, who I am going to play, is a mom who ends up stranded in her son鈥檚 old kayak,鈥� Daniels explained. 聽
鈥淗er 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.鈥�
Kayak will run March 30 to April 1 and 5 to 8.
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