Chair-ity campaign back for the season at 4th Line Theatre
4th Line Theatre’s Chair-ity Campaign, which began last year, is once again up and running for the 2024 season.
Audience members can purchase naming rights to their own chair on the Millbrook-based Winslow Farm viewing seats, or in honour or memory of a loved one.
A $200 donation to the chair will get each donor a personalized, engraved plaque on a chair.
Last year’s campaign provided new, improved seating at the outdoor theatre venue, built for stability, comfort, and durability, a press release from the theatre states. Theatre-goers can still purchase naming rights to a chair.
Those who purchase a seat are not guaranteed to be able to sit in the chair when they go to the farm for a performance, but the theatre will show them the chair.
Naming rights to a chair can be purchased by calling the box office at 705-932-4445 or toll-free at 800814-0055.
This summer, 4th Line Theatre is presenting two plays, both world premieres, for its 32nd season. In 2022, 4th Line celebrated three decades of bringing outdoor productions to life.
This year’s summer season will begin with “Onion Skins & Peach Fuzz: The Farmerettes”, July 1 to 20, a comedic and informative look at the story of teenage girls who worked on farms across Canada to feed the troops, and all Canadians, during the Second World War.
The second play, “Jim Watts: Girl Reporter” July, 30 to Aug. 24, takes a look at Canadian youth who illegally went to Spain to fight fascism, in the mid-1930s. Jean “Jim” Watts was the only woman to join Canada’s regiment in Spain, the Mac-Kenzie-Papineaus.
Longtime musical director Justin Hiscox will be returning to 4th Line Theatre in 2024 to write original music, compose and musically direct for the summer season. This will be his 24th season with the theatre this season.
The company is hiring a front of house manager; props builder/scenic painter; and technical director/ head carpenter for the coming season, according to its website.
“At 4th Line Theatre we are constantly examining the intersection of art and audience. We aim to create a theatrical experience of total immersion for our audiences, often based on their own stories,” says Kim Blackwell.
Blackwell is the theatre’s managing artistic director and is returning for her 30th season.
All performances take place at the rural setting of Winslow Farm on Zion Line, just outside of Millbrook.
All performances take place at the rural setting of Winslow Farm on Zion Line, just outside of Millbrook