Holiday time: so many traditions! So much joy in such a difficult time, as we gather to share an hour.
Dylan Thomas transports us to a snow-blanketed town—the seaside Welsh town where he was born. Rachel Eugster and Nicholas D. Amott bring his rough-and-tumble characters to life, share their own holiday memories, and send your spirits soaring with midwinter harmonies. Join us for candle-lighting and stories, and a sweet carol hum.
Whether your December is never complete without hearing this story, or whether this will be your first experience of Thomas’s lyrical classic, this is for you.
Come share a warm hug of a show. And build your Christmas memories all over again.
Note: Distanced seating is guaranteed for all shows. We ask that you stay masked except when actively sipping a drink, but please feel free to hum along to the carols inside your masks!
Tickets can be purchased online or over the phone from The Gladstone Theatre.
This is a Canadian Actors' Equity Association production under the Artists' Collective Policy.
Treat yourself to a Christmas package! For the first time ever, The Gladstone offers two classics in repertory: Pierre Brault’s A Christmas Carol and Bear’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Both shows play Tuesdays through Sundays, with a variety of evenings and matinees. Buy tickets to both at a discount price.
Note: we hope to be able to live-stream our 7pm performance on December 18—check here or on the Gladstone or Bear websites for updates.
If you'd rather catch us on the Quebec side of the river, we will be at La Fab sur Mill in Chelsea for ONE NIGHT ONLY on December 19 at 7pm. Tickets are available through Eventbrite.
Dylan Thomas transports us to a snow-blanketed town—the seaside Welsh town where he was born. Rachel Eugster and Nicholas D. Amott bring his rough-and-tumble characters to life, share their own holiday memories, and send your spirits soaring with midwinter harmonies. Join us for candle-lighting and stories, and a sweet carol hum.
Whether your December is never complete without hearing this story, or whether this will be your first experience of Thomas’s lyrical classic, this is for you.
Come share a warm hug of a show. And build your Christmas memories all over again.
Note: Distanced seating is guaranteed for all shows. We ask that you stay masked except when actively sipping a drink, but please feel free to hum along to the carols inside your masks!
Tickets can be purchased online or over the phone from The Gladstone Theatre.
This is a Canadian Actors' Equity Association production under the Artists' Collective Policy.
Treat yourself to a Christmas package! For the first time ever, The Gladstone offers two classics in repertory: Pierre Brault’s A Christmas Carol and Bear’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Both shows play Tuesdays through Sundays, with a variety of evenings and matinees. Buy tickets to both at a discount price.
Note: we hope to be able to live-stream our 7pm performance on December 18—check here or on the Gladstone or Bear websites for updates.
If you'd rather catch us on the Quebec side of the river, we will be at La Fab sur Mill in Chelsea for ONE NIGHT ONLY on December 19 at 7pm. Tickets are available through Eventbrite.
THE CREATIVE TEAM
Nicholas David Amott—Ensemble
A native actor and playwright of Ottawa, Nicholas is making his seventh appearance on the Gladstone stage within the past five years. (But do the last two really count?) He has gotten no younger, but continues to be ever the saucier.
Recent Gladstone credits include King Lear (Bear & Co.), Nell Gwynn (Three Sisters), and Little Shop of Horrors (another company), as well his own work: ARNOTT: A Masterclass in Theatring.
It's good to be back. Enjoy, kids! Happy Holidays.
And, as always, make cupcakes, not war.
A native actor and playwright of Ottawa, Nicholas is making his seventh appearance on the Gladstone stage within the past five years. (But do the last two really count?) He has gotten no younger, but continues to be ever the saucier.
Recent Gladstone credits include King Lear (Bear & Co.), Nell Gwynn (Three Sisters), and Little Shop of Horrors (another company), as well his own work: ARNOTT: A Masterclass in Theatring.
It's good to be back. Enjoy, kids! Happy Holidays.
And, as always, make cupcakes, not war.
Eleanor Crowder—Director
Eleanor is SO pleased to be making theatre live again. Forty years of stages weigh very light in the human scales of the last 2 seasons, but a career of scripts and gesture, grand passions and telling detail proves a strong foundation for survival of the spirit. Thanks to the brave teams of Zoom actors who dared new territory with me.
Most recently The Skins Songs Collective pioneered a Covid-friendly dance theatre fusion, a format we'll keep. Thank-you to TACTICS for their support. And to you, for making this next step a shared delight.
Eleanor is SO pleased to be making theatre live again. Forty years of stages weigh very light in the human scales of the last 2 seasons, but a career of scripts and gesture, grand passions and telling detail proves a strong foundation for survival of the spirit. Thanks to the brave teams of Zoom actors who dared new territory with me.
Most recently The Skins Songs Collective pioneered a Covid-friendly dance theatre fusion, a format we'll keep. Thank-you to TACTICS for their support. And to you, for making this next step a shared delight.
Rachel Eugster—Ensemble
It is balm to the spirit to return to the theatre—slowly and carefully--with this sweet holiday show!
Rachel’s most recent work at the Gladstone (Fall 2019) was in Lightfoot in Song, Bear’s third tribute to a beloved musical artist. Prior to that, she directed Bear’s outdoor summer touring production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and music for King Lear.
Other highlights include playing Quiney and William Shakespeare in Three Sisters’ Miss Shakespeare; appearing in Bear’s smash-hit tribute to Leonard Cohen, No Way to Say Goodbye; playing Martha in Virginia Woolf (also Bear); and playing Æmilia Lanyer in her own original play Whose Æmilia? (Spidersilk Productions), whose central character might have been Shakespeare’s Dark Lady of the Sonnets (or not!). Rachel hopes that a remount of this play in Massachusetts planned for April 2020 that was cancelled by the pandemic will be rescheduled soon! And she looks forward to appearing in Three Sisters’/SevenThirty’s upcoming production of The Secrets of Primrose Square in February/March 2022.
Rachel is a founding member of Bear & Co. and of the Purring Dragons Ensemble, and is the director of the Tamir Neshamah Choir. She is also the author of the award-winning picture book The Pocket Mommy (Tundra/Penguin Random House). Order it from your local indie bookstore!
It is balm to the spirit to return to the theatre—slowly and carefully--with this sweet holiday show!
Rachel’s most recent work at the Gladstone (Fall 2019) was in Lightfoot in Song, Bear’s third tribute to a beloved musical artist. Prior to that, she directed Bear’s outdoor summer touring production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and music for King Lear.
Other highlights include playing Quiney and William Shakespeare in Three Sisters’ Miss Shakespeare; appearing in Bear’s smash-hit tribute to Leonard Cohen, No Way to Say Goodbye; playing Martha in Virginia Woolf (also Bear); and playing Æmilia Lanyer in her own original play Whose Æmilia? (Spidersilk Productions), whose central character might have been Shakespeare’s Dark Lady of the Sonnets (or not!). Rachel hopes that a remount of this play in Massachusetts planned for April 2020 that was cancelled by the pandemic will be rescheduled soon! And she looks forward to appearing in Three Sisters’/SevenThirty’s upcoming production of The Secrets of Primrose Square in February/March 2022.
Rachel is a founding member of Bear & Co. and of the Purring Dragons Ensemble, and is the director of the Tamir Neshamah Choir. She is also the author of the award-winning picture book The Pocket Mommy (Tundra/Penguin Random House). Order it from your local indie bookstore!
Chelsey Fawcett--Stage manager
Chelsey is an accomplished freelance producer of theatre and film across Canada including credits and awards for her work as a director. She is thrilled to be back in the stage manager's chair to celebrate the holiday season with you!
Chelsey’s humble start in theatre was as a stage manager in 2011 after graduating from the University of Windsor with her bachelor's of dramatic arts. She has stage managed for Theatre Encounter, Theatre BSMT, Cow Town Opera, Storybook Theatre, and many other companies.
Chelsey is an award-winning animation director (Telus Storyhive) for her work on Noonright (2015). She was nominated for Director of the Year by the Calgary Critter awards for her work on The Basement Boys (2014, Theatre BSMT).
Chelsey will be working as the producer on the Canadian and European tour of Inanna in 2022. Her one-woman belly dance show Haram debuted in September of 2020 with the UpRoar Festival in Ottawa and toured to Australia and the Nanaimo Fringe Festival in 2021. Chelsey has produced numerous shows and tours that have traveled to Japan, China, Australia, Europe, Egypt, and across Canada over the span of her career.
Chelsey recently graduated with her master's degree in directing from the University of Ottawa and is an active member in the Ottawa theatre community.
Chelsey is an accomplished freelance producer of theatre and film across Canada including credits and awards for her work as a director. She is thrilled to be back in the stage manager's chair to celebrate the holiday season with you!
Chelsey’s humble start in theatre was as a stage manager in 2011 after graduating from the University of Windsor with her bachelor's of dramatic arts. She has stage managed for Theatre Encounter, Theatre BSMT, Cow Town Opera, Storybook Theatre, and many other companies.
Chelsey is an award-winning animation director (Telus Storyhive) for her work on Noonright (2015). She was nominated for Director of the Year by the Calgary Critter awards for her work on The Basement Boys (2014, Theatre BSMT).
Chelsey will be working as the producer on the Canadian and European tour of Inanna in 2022. Her one-woman belly dance show Haram debuted in September of 2020 with the UpRoar Festival in Ottawa and toured to Australia and the Nanaimo Fringe Festival in 2021. Chelsey has produced numerous shows and tours that have traveled to Japan, China, Australia, Europe, Egypt, and across Canada over the span of her career.
Chelsey recently graduated with her master's degree in directing from the University of Ottawa and is an active member in the Ottawa theatre community.
David Magladry—Lighting designer
David Magladry is a professional lighting and set designer working in theatre, television, museum exhibitions, houses of worship, special events, and concerts.
His theatre clients include Bear & Co., Plosive Productions, Pierre Brault, SevenThirty Productions, Algonquin College Theatre Department, Carleton University, St. Lawrence College Theatre Department,and Eddy May Mysteries.
David has been the lighting designer for over 800 exhibitions in numerous national museums such as the Canadian Museum of History and the Canadian War Museum, and has designed the lighting and environment for Ottawa’s Escape Manor “CSE rooms.”
In the past year, David has designed for numerous houses of worship, upgrading the quality of lighting for their streaming and live services, as well as lighting numerous virtual events for Music and Beyond’s 2021 season. He is currently redesigning the set and lighting components of Rogers TV Ottawa's “Daytime” daily morning show.
David Magladry is a professional lighting and set designer working in theatre, television, museum exhibitions, houses of worship, special events, and concerts.
His theatre clients include Bear & Co., Plosive Productions, Pierre Brault, SevenThirty Productions, Algonquin College Theatre Department, Carleton University, St. Lawrence College Theatre Department,and Eddy May Mysteries.
David has been the lighting designer for over 800 exhibitions in numerous national museums such as the Canadian Museum of History and the Canadian War Museum, and has designed the lighting and environment for Ottawa’s Escape Manor “CSE rooms.”
In the past year, David has designed for numerous houses of worship, upgrading the quality of lighting for their streaming and live services, as well as lighting numerous virtual events for Music and Beyond’s 2021 season. He is currently redesigning the set and lighting components of Rogers TV Ottawa's “Daytime” daily morning show.