All shows begin at 8:00 PM Tuesday through Saturday and at 2:30 PM on Sunday

Workshop Theatre's productions are all performed at The Pumphouse Theatre, which is located at 2140 Pumphouse Avenue SW. 

The map at the bottom of this page shows you the driving routes to The Pumphouse.

To order tickets online, simply click on the title of the play you wish to buy tickets for.

Tickets may also be purchased at the door, or by calling Storybook Theatre at (403) 216-0808

The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate’s Townswoman’s Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery    by David McGillvray and Walter Zerlin    

September 17 to September 25, 2010

Directed by Kayte Parnell

The four ladies of The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society (F.A.H.E.T.G.D.S.) are a force to be reckoned with. The sheer scale of their ambition in mounting "Murder at Checkmate Manor" an ambiguous and cunning Agatha Christie style 1930’s drawing room mystery, is only matched by their overwhelming confidence in their abilities to master all fourteen parts. There were problems at dress rehearsal but surely everything will go well on the night…surely.

“Wiping away tears of laughter so much becomes quite exhausting!” Glendale News

 

Children of a Lesser God    by Mark Medoff 

November 26 to December 4, 2010

Directed by Andrea Sereda

This sincere melodrama is the uplifting love story about an idealistic special education teacher (James) who falls in love with one of his deaf students (Sarah). At first, James sees Sarah as a teaching challenge. But soon their teacher/student relationship blossoms into a love so passionate it shatters. The central conflict of Mark Medoff's play is on whose terms the romance will exist: will Sarah learn how to read lips and talk, as James wants her to, or communicate only in sign language (what she calls a "silence full of sound")?

A Tony award winner in 1980 this play was made into a very successful film in 1986

 

1984   by George Orwell (adapted by Alan Lyddiard)

January 28 to Feb 5 2011

Directed by Mike Peterson

Leon1984 is a discomforting chronicle of one man's struggle against the ubiquitous, menacing state power Big Brother that tries to dictate nearly every aspect of human life. A classic in dystopian fiction and a trenchant political satire, 1984 resonates with themes as salient today as they were when this novel was first written.

Presented with a technically demanding mix of video and live theatre this play is bound to raise questions about the world you live in today.

 

All in Good Time   by Bill Naughton   

May 6 to May 14, 2011

Directed by Louis B. Hobson

Set in Bolton, Lancashire, this very funny but sensitive play centres on the introverted Arthur and his new bride forced by economic circumstances to live with his good-hearted but rough-tongued father. The lack of privacy is so inhibiting that Arthur is unable to consummate the marriage, and gradually word gets around. Gossip flourishes and tongues wag. Will true love eventually win over. Can Arthur lose his inhibitions! Filmed as The Family Way with Hywel Bennett, John Mills and Hayley Mills.

"All in Good Time makes a tenderly perceptive human comedy out of a single obvious and quaint-sounding joke" - Time Magazine 1966