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Barefoot in the Parks' last two shows are Friday February 15th and Saturday February 16th.  The show got rave reviews in the St. Thomas Times-Journal .  Go here to read the review .

"one of the most enjoyable pieces the ETG (Elgin Theatre Guild) has ever produced"  Doug Avram, St. Thomas Times-Journal

"The newlyweds are magnificently played by Jennifer Leack and Joshua Richardson. Leack absolutely bubbles with energy and joy as a new bride, thrilled with her apartment choice and in love with her husband and life.
Richardson plays straight-laced lawyer Paul Bratter with wonderful warmth and control and the two of them have great chemistry on stage."


A delight to go Barefoot in the Park
Through Saturday at Princess Avenue Playhouse

Tuesday February 12, 2008

 A great play stands the test of time.
Neil Simon’s Barefoot in the Park is arguably his best play for it continues to delight audiences.
As director Don Fleckser said, “This is the perfect play to beat the blahs of February and it is the perfect play for lovers of all ages.”
Fleckser has directed this particular gem twice before and now has brought his considerable experience and expertise as a director to the Elgin Theatre Guild’s production.
It sparkles, and definitely beats the February blahs with an outstanding production.
Even the best-written plays directed by award-winning directors still need a cast which can handle and bring to life the characters the playwright and director envision. Fleckser has assembled a cast that delights and captivates the audience with their energetic, insightful and humorous portrayals of Simon’s characters.


Intelligent comedy that does not rely on slapstick to elicit laughter is difficult to do. It requires skill, timing and sensitivity to the characters’ reality in such a manner that we, the audience, can see ourselves in the characters and laugh with them as they entangle themselves in the comedic situations. This cast created real characters and we could sit back and enjoy, smile and certainly laugh throughout the play.
The plot concerns newlyweds Corie and Paul Bratter as they begin their married life in a minuscule fifth-floor walkup – “six floors if you count the front stoop” -- of a mid-Manhattan brownstone.
The apartment has its challenges ... no heat and it is February, a bedroom that was a closet and leaks, a hole in the skylight and a bevy of oddball neighbours, including one Victor Velasco who lives in the attic and uses the Bratter’s bedroom window in order to climb up into his attic apartment.
The newlyweds are magnificently played by Jennifer Leack and Joshua Richardson. Leack absolutely bubbles with energy and joy as a new bride, thrilled with her apartment choice and in love with her husband and life.
Richardson plays straight-laced lawyer Paul Bratter with wonderful warmth and control and the two of them have great chemistry on stage.
Add to this mix, Corie’s mother, Mrs. Banks, played by Linda Maskell-Pereira, and the oddball Victor Velasco, played by David Bogaert.
Maskell-Pereira is superb in her role as the loving and well-meaning mother who finds herself almost overwhelmed by Corie’s love of life and new experiences, and the dynamic and worldly Velasco brought to exuberant life by Bogaert.
This is a well balanced cast which interacts wonderfully. Each makes this play come alive with humour, love and fun. It is an audience treat, a play that all can sit back to, laugh and fully enjoy.
Simon weaves a masterpiece of writing. His words and phrases are enlivened by the clear delivery of the characters on stage and all this makes for one of the most enjoyable pieces the ETG has ever produced.
The play runs through Feb. 16 at the Princess Avenue Playhouse.
Tickets: 519-633-8530.
 
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