Dufflebag Theatre Company

REVIEW-Cinderella with Orchestra London

Admin — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:34:41 +0000

Well it seems that our successful week of shows with Orchestra London was very well received!

The London Free Press review of our performance of Cindereall and their video blog can be found here:

http://www.lfpress.com/entertainment/stage/2012/02/28/19438191.html

ONTARIO MARCH BREAK SHOWS

Admin — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:19:06 +0000

Here’s where you can find DuffleBag Theatre for March Break fun!

Mon. March 12

11am ROBIN HOOD, Lighthouse Festival Theatre, Port Dover ON

2pm ROBIN HOOD, Lighthouse Festival Theatre, Port Dover ON

www.lighthousefestivaltheatre.com

Tues. March 13–Sat. March 17

11am CINDERELLA, Toronto Centre for the Arts 5040 Yonge Street Toronto ON M2N 6R8

2pm PETER PAN, Toronto Centre for the Arts 5040 Yonge Street Toronto ON M2N 6R8

www.tocentre.com and www.ticketmaster.ca

Wed. March 14

10:30am PETER PAN, Grand Valley Community Centre 90 Main St N Grand Valley ON L0N 1G0

2pm PETER PAN, Ecole des Quatre Rivieres/Orangeville Public Library 60 Century Dr. Orangeville ON L9W 3K4

Thurs. March 15

10am CINDERELLA, New Tecumseh Public Library Memorial Branch 17 Victoria St E Alliston ON L9R 1V6

Fri. March 16

1:30pm PETER PAN, Grace Tipling Concert Hall (Shelburne Public Library) 203 Main St. E Shelburne ON L0N 1J0

DuffleBag Theatre and Orchestra London team up again for CINDERELLA

Admin — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:05:47 +0000

DuffleBag Theatre and Orchestra London are teaming up once again for a fun filled show: Cinderella. Drawing from the music of Rossinni and Strauss, and using DuffleBag Theatre’s unique improvisational style, this rags to riches classic fairy tale is sure to please audiences of all ages! There will be 4 school performances of Cinderella and 1 bilingual school performance of Cendrillon. The public performance of Cinderella is Wed. Feb. 29 at 7pm.

Past collaborations between Orchestra London and DuffleBag Theatre include: Robin Hood, Sleeping Beauty, and The Three Musketeers.

Tickets available at www.orchestralondon.ca or at the door.

Tues. Feb. 28

9:30am CINDERELLA, with ORCHESTRA LONDON, Saunders S.S., London ON

10:45am CINDERELLA, with ORCHESTRA LONDON, Saunders S.S., London ON

1:15pm CENDRILLON, with ORCHESTRA LONDON, Saunders S.S., London ON

Wed. Feb. 29

9:30am CINDERELLA, with ORCHESTRA LONDON, Saunders S.S., 941 Viscount Rd., London ON

10:45am CINDERELLA, with ORCHESTRA LONDON, Saunders S.S., 941 Viscount Rd., London ON

7pm CINDERELLA, with ORCHESTRA LONDON, Saunders S.S., 941 Viscount Rd., London ON

Join DuffleBag Theatre in Owen Sound in support of Brendan Rourke’s fight against cancer.

Admin — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:39:40 +0000

Sat. Dec. 17

***2pm A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Fundraiser performance***

In support of 18 yr. old Brendan Rourke and his fight against cancer.

OSCVI Auditorium, Owen Sound ON

(DONATIONS AT THE DOOR)

Please help spread the word for Brendan!

DuffleBag Theatre kicks off its 2011-12 School Touring Season

Admin — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 05:59:54 +0000

Well here we go again for what promises to be another fun filled adventure for the “nearly world-famous” DuffleBag Theatre. We’ve got tours galore (check our upcoming shows section for more information), in addition to our old favourites we have new shows including The Three Musketeers, our new bilingual performance La Belle et La Bete, as well as Cinderella with Orchestra London! We’re excited to meet a whole bunch of new audience stars during our shows too. There’s nothing like hitting the road in the van and having fun! See you all soon!

DUFFLEBAG THEATRE

LFP-The Three Musketeers with Orchestra London

Admin — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:11:48 +0000

Click on the title above to check out this video blog from the London Free Press about our performances of The Three Musketeers with Orchestra London.

http://www.lfpress.com/video/fun-filled-partnership-of-theatre-and-orchestra/803611374001

DuffleBag Theatre @ Gordon Pinsent Centre for the Arts, Grand Falls NFLD

Admin — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:51:16 +0000

Looking Forward to the New Year!

Admin — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:39:32 +0000

DuffleBag logged a lot of travel time in 2010. Aside from 3 months in British Columbia and 6 weeks in the Maritimes, we also did nearly a month in Singapore and Vietnam. And that’s on top of the other shows we regularly do in Ontario. And even on New Year’s Eve we performed three times in Fort MacMurray, Alberta! All told (I still haven’t added them up yet) we did somewhere between 600 to 700 -performances last year.

Now in 2011, DuffleBag is going to be busier than ever! In the next month we’re travelling from Northern Ontario to New York State. Once again, in late February, we’ll be working with Orchestra London for a special series of co-performances, this time showcasing The Three Musketeers! And we already have our tentative plans to return to the West Coast and Southeast Asia. The year’s looking pretty bright indeed…

Hope to see you at a show soon!

Cheers,

Rod

DuffleBag Theatre at Signal Hill (St. John’s, NL)

Admin — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 02:40:10 +0000

Enjoying Singapore!

Admin — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:17:13 +0000

While our season in Canada gets underway with shows around Ontario, DuffleBag is also performing in Southeast Asia this week!

Marcus, Rod, Natalie and Lee have spent a silly amount of time sitting in planes and airports to bring “Beauty and the Beast” to audiences in both Singapore and Vietnam. Now that we’re here, we’re very happy to stretch our legs, do some shows, and squeeze in some sight-seeing!

Thanks to our friends at Act 3 International in Singapore, we’re able to come back for our fourth tour to this part of the world. Our previous trips, which also included stints in Brunei and Malaysia, were in 2000, 2005, and 2007.

Vietnam was exciting new ground for us and we enjoyed doing two shows at the ACG International School in Ho Chi Minh City. Our audiences responded very well, and we hope we did Canada proud! We managed to see some of this very colourful city before we left, including the Ben Thanh Market and the Cu Chi tunnels. We’ll get some pictures up soon…

Once in Singapore, we were welcomed by old friends Ruby and Lillian from Act 3, and set up in their theatre on Cairnhill Road, a very nice black-box style space to call home for two weeks. No setting up and tearing down is luxury!

After setting up, we had some media interviews. We spoke on TV with PrimeTime Morning on ChannelNews Asia, which can be seen here (scroll down and click on “Child’s Play”). Next was radio, with Stanley and Pamela on 938Live‘s “The Living Room”. (There’s a podcast here, under ‘Sept. 27, Part 1′, but I don’t know how long it will stay up). Both were a lot of fun.

We’ve been doing two shows a day, to school audiences during the week and family crowds on the weekends (and Children’s Day, which was a holiday for kids last Friday). In the meantime we’ve also had a lot of great food! Singapore has so many different cultures present– Chinese, Malay, Indian, Korean, European, etc.– that you can pretty much find whatever you want. Even McDonald’s!

We’ve also gone to see a few things… but I can’t tell you everything all at once.

Come back for more!