JEFF CULBERT
UPCOMING SHOWS
Wallace Shawn: I wish people knew me as a radical playwright instead for
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THE WILDEST TOWN
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** NOW BOOKING ** This new show about the Donnelly murders of 1880 presents the story in a unique way: It’s a concert featuring some of the best songs that have been written about the Donnellys over the years. Songs by Stompin' Tom Connors, Earl Heywood, Maria Dunn, James Boyle and Jeff Culbert, played by a four-piece band featuring fiddle, accordion, guitar and banjo. Coming to Ailsa Craig, May 2020 
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CHOOSE, BUT CHOOSE WISELY
The London District of Upper Canada during the War of 1812 by Jeff Culbert
(Coming soon in paperback)
When the Americans declared war in 1812, the
inhabitants of Upper Canada were given a choice
by General Hull, the commander of Fort Detroit.
They could either allow the American army
to take control of the region or face a war of
extermination.
This play follows the reactions of five
neighbours living near the forks of the
Thames River (Askunissippi) in the
London District: a Chippewa scout,
a captain in the British militia, an
American sympathizer and two
Quaker pacifists.
THE DESIGNATED MOURNER
by Wallace Shawn
OCTOBER 17 - 27
Procunier Hall Palace Theatre 710 Dundas Street
THE DESIGNATED MOURNER tells the story of three people: Howard, a poet, essayist and intellectual who has been at odds for many decades with the right-wing regime that rules his country; Judy, his daughter, a deep-feeling intellectual, who reveres her father; and Jack, Judy's husband. As the political situation becomes tenser, and the regime becomes more and more likely to crack down even on relatively quiet dissenters like Judy and Howard, the issue of what sort of books people like to read and how they choose to amuse themselves becomes both grimly personal and unexpectedly entangled with questions of survival.
Procunier Hall Palace Theatre 710 Dundas Street
THE DESIGNATED MOURNER tells the story of three people: Howard, a poet, essayist and intellectual who has been at odds for many decades with the right-wing regime that rules his country; Judy, his daughter, a deep-feeling intellectual, who reveres her father; and Jack, Judy's husband. As the political situation becomes tenser, and the regime becomes more and more likely to crack down even on relatively quiet dissenters like Judy and Howard, the issue of what sort of books people like to read and how they choose to amuse themselves becomes both grimly personal and unexpectedly entangled with questions of survival.