'Yonge
Street' plays Bishop Ryan's High School in Hamilton April
1st /06
“A
must see play” Pride Newspaper. “It’s
a play worth seeing” Share Newspaper. “Go
and see Yonge Street” The Jamaican Gleaner.
Black on black crime paralyzed a community;
the ruthless Spider is trapped in the middle, leaving
him only one choice.
Marital problems coupled with lack of
medical opportunities puts one man on the edge…how
much more can he endures.
After two successful runs in August and
in December of 2005 at the Jamaican Canadian Centre, Peoples
Performing Arts Centre in association with Lyns Linstead
Market, will be re-mounting the comedy drama ‘Yonge
Street’ written and directed by Devon Haughton;
writer of such plays as Big Yard I, 2 and 3, Dear Pastor1
and 2, Two for Two, Old Friends and screenwriter of the
2002 Reelworld Star TV Audience Choice Award movie ‘Superbob’.
The play is set in a Toronto neighborhood
with all the action and comedy taking place in a convenience
store called “Yonge Street”, owned and operated
by Ousman Aggai, (P_ Barrington) a qualified Nigerian
doctor who cannot find work in the medical field and his
wife Babbette Aggai, (Gloria Surage) who has just received
her landed papers and is now tired of married life.
The play also features Dulcimina, (Sandra
Witter) an aspiring actress who comes to the big city
to fulfill her dreams but encounters many obstacles, Anastasia
Ullman, (Darlene Morrison) once a successful CEO, now
battling Bipolar Disorder, Harrietta Barnes, (Keesha Brownie)
a woman who wants her husband deported and in turn is
emotionally and sexually abused by a government employee;
played by, (Sean Bradshaw). “Yonge Street,”
also featuring Damian Brown as “Spider”, Jermaine
Granville and Tom O’Neil.
“Yonge Street” is slated for
Saturday April 1st, 2006. Show time 8:00 pm, at Bishop
Ryan Catholic High School in Hamilton, Ontario. Admission
is $27 advance and $32 at the door. For more information,
please call 416 659 6258 or 905 385 5232 or 416 743 –
1170 or email: devhau@yahoo.ca
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