The Milton Players Theatre Group, Milton's volunteer community theatre, opens The Cottage, a farce by Sandy Rustin, on Friday, Nov. 6 at 8 p.m. in MinMaxx Hall at the FirstOntario Arts Centre.
Farce is comedy built on secrets, mix-ups and bad timing, and this one starts with a rendezvous. Sylvia and Beau meet at an English countryside cottage for their yearly meeting.
Rosanna Armata directs. Emily Hale plays Sylvia and Constantine Karolidis plays Beau, with Sean Carsley as Clarke, Arnay Avdic as Richard, Alex Zych as Marjorie and Courtney Bailey as Dierdre. Paresh Karkhanis is assistant director, Mary Camastra is producer and Sandra Curran is stage manager. Armata was one of the all-female slate of directors behind the group's previous Laugh-Out-Loud Season.
There are seven performances from Nov. 6 to 14: evening shows at 8 p.m. and two afternoon matinees, on Sunday, Nov. 8 and Saturday, Nov. 14, the closing day.
| Date | Time |
|---|---|
| Friday, Nov. 6 | 8 p.m. |
| Saturday, Nov. 7 | 8 p.m. |
| Sunday, Nov. 8 | 2 p.m. |
| Thursday, Nov. 12 | 8 p.m. |
| Friday, Nov. 13 | 8 p.m. |
| Saturday, Nov. 14 | 2 p.m. |
| Saturday, Nov. 14 | 8 p.m. |
Tickets are $32, or $27 each for groups of 10 or more, with taxes and fees included. Everyone involved is an unpaid volunteer, and the group says the show may be entered for judging at the ACT-CO community theatre festival.
Also on Friday, in a separate show in the arts centre's Mattamy Theatre, Destroyer, a Windsor-based KISS tribute band, plays at 7 p.m. Tickets are $63. The band has played over 1,500 live shows in 32 years.
The Milton Players return with Suburban Standoff, a comedy by Michael Grant directed by Brian Cranford, from Jan. 29 to Feb. 6, 2027. The season closes with another farce, Love, Lies and the Doctors Dilemma, directed by Sandra Curran, opening April 30, 2027.
