At My Heart's Core
directed by Penny Nash
Thurs.-Sat., March 1-17, 7:30 p.m.
The Davies Foundation Auditorium
52 Church St., Kingston, ON
 L-R: Naomi Greer-Ballance, Valerie Winslow, Sarah Knight, Dan Robinson and Esme Purdy. |
The year is 1837. The Upper Canada Rebellion is under way. In a remote log house near Peterborough, Susanna Moodie, Catharine Parr Traill and Frances Stewart meet a young man who tempts them.
The form of temptation that Edmund Cantwell offers is not what you might think of first. As he himself explains to The Hon. Thomas Stewart on Stewart's return from fighting the rebellion in York, "I have observed that there is one temptation which only the strongest spirits can resist. It is the temptation of discontent."
L-R: Dan Robinson, Ian Malcolm, Sarah Knight, Matthew Davis, Valerie Winslow and Naomi Greer-Ballance. |
Robertson Davies, one of Canada's greatest novelists as well as a journalist and academic, wrote At My Heart's Core in 1950. He said the play "came directly from my sense of the intellectual loneliness of the pioneers who had left the world of the mind behind them, and tried to keep up their contact with it from the depths of the wilderness."
 L-R: Naomi Greer-Ballance, Helana Marks, Sarah Knight, Valerie Winslow and Esme Purdy. |
Cast |
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| Frances Stewart | Sarah Knight |
| Catharine Parr Traill | Valerie Winslow |
| Susanna Moodie | Naomi Greer Ballance |
| Sally | Helana Marks |
| Honour | Esme Purdy |
| Phelim Brady | Daniel Robinson |
| Edmund Cantwell | Matthew Davis |
| Thomas Stewart | Ian Malcolm |
Production Crew |
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| Producers | Bill Morrow Elizabeth Taylor |
| Director | Penny Nash |
| Stage Manager | Marion Savage |
| Asst. Stage Manager | Carolyn Burley |
| Set Design & Chief Carpenter | Grant Buckler |
| Set Dressing | Adrian Cooper Susan Payne |
| Lighting Design | David L. Smith |
| Lighting Operation | Angie Roberts |
| Sound Design & Operation | Michelle McNichol |
| Costume Design | Claudia Wade Anne Aston |
| Props & Backstage Crew | Elaine Otter Diane Clarke |
| Dialect Coach | Beatsie McLean |
| Set Construction | Bob Brooks Kim Dressel James Gow Lorna Jodoin Rick Jodoin Tony McDermott D.T. McNichol Dave Oliver Ian Rutherford Liz Schell |
| Set Painting | Grant Buckler Carolyn Burley Adrian Cooper Kim Dressel James Gow Lorna Jodoin Penny Nash Susan Payne Ian Rutherford Marion Savage Bernd Steglich |
| Lobby Photography | Ian Malcolm |
| Archival Photography | Grant Buckler |
| Poster Design | Katie Flower-Smith |
| Lobby Art Curator | Karen Peperkorn |
| Front of House Co-ordinator | Steve Powell |