Three-in-one success for Peninsula Players
Peninsula Players scored an unusual success at the South Island Zone TheatreBC Festival last week when the three actresses in The Dining Room shared the Best Supporting Actress award. Jackie
Rioux, Francesca Bitonti and Lorene Cammiade, who between them play 29
characters in the play, were performing on-stage at the Charlie White
Theatre when the announcement was made at the Awards Banquet in
Ladysmith on Saturday.

The Dining Room, by A.R.Gurney, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, has no lead roles. Instead,
the six cast portray the lives, loves and attitudes of 57 characters
including domineering parents, rebellious teenagers, lonely housewives,
business professionals and raucous children, in one of the most
important traditional gathering places of American domestic life.

As
the 18 vignettes -- by turns funny, touching, dramatic and sad -- flow
seamlessly together, an ever-richer portrait of the American family
emerges. A New York Post review put it, "hilarious and touching . . .
as comic sketch crazily succeeds comic sketch a whole pattern of
American life emerges."

There is still time to catch these award-winning performances. The Dining Room continues at the Charlie White Theatre from May 30 to June 2.