2024 – 2025 Season
Bronte: The World Without
Bronte Goes to Mainstage! Congratulations to director Sylvia Swift and cast and crew of Bronte: The World Without, winner of this year’s Best Production at Theatre BC’s Mainstage , held at Fort Saint John in July 2025. Mercury Players’ show was chosen among six provincial entries. We also won the category of “Best Props and…
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Constellations
Constellations, by Nick Payne and being staged by Duncan’s Mercury Players, is a love story told over multiple realities. A beekeeper and a theoretical physicist meet at a party. In that single moment, an unfathomable multitude of possibilities unfolds. Their chance meeting might blossom into a meaningful relationship or a brief affair, or it might…
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The Female of the Species
The play is inspired by a real event in which celebrity feminist Germaine Greer was held at gunpoint in 2000. In the show, a deranged former student of Margot’s bursts onto the scene blaming Margot for brainwashing her mother. As a random assortment of other characters encounter the situation, hilarity ensues. The fast-paced humour effectively…
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Bits of Bliss – Staged Reading
Mercury Players and Cowichan Pride are excited to co-present Bits of BLISS, a staged reading. Bits of BLISS for Cowichan Pride includes six pieces from: BLISS: A Collection of commissioned Scenes and Monologues. Love is Other People (The Veil) by Dante Green; Super Mariodyssey by Shale Cook; Karaoke Night by Preston Max Allen; Awake, Unafraid…
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Jessica’s Fine Adventure – Staged Reading
A comedy with a heart of goldby Robert More Meet widowed Jessica Quartermaine. Seventy-ish, elegant, reserved,widowed. No longer willing to live with the “relentless predictability” and“sensual deprivation” of the past five decades, she decides to seekcompanionship of the male persuasion by posting an ad in the newspaperwhich reads: “Seeking Suitors Suitable for Amorous Possibilities.”What follows…
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Burn – Staged Reading
A Canadian murder-mysteryDirected by Dan LeckeyOld friends Robert, Samira and David are the only three left of their original gang. Robert’s wife, famed mystery novelist Tara Waters, disappeared five years ago — but Robert insists she’s still alive. Paul, also a writer, died the year before, shortly after reuniting with his estranged daughter Eve. Eve…
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Canadian Wild Flowers – Staged Reading
Canadian Wild Flowers by Louise Phillips Canadian Wild Flowers is based on a true story of one woman’s courage and hope in meeting the challenges of poverty and loneliness. It is 1865 in Upper Canada, and newly widowed Agnes Fitzgibbon must find a way to support her six children. A talented amateur painter, she sets…
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Timepiece – Staged Reading
Timepiece by Kico Gonzales-Risso Retired watchmaker Walter is becoming forgetful — or is he just being capricious? His wife Doris wants to downsize. Walter does not. Their adult children Patrick (a lawyer) and Karla (a music therapist) have lots of advice for Mom and Dad when the siblings are not arguing with each other. Timepiece…
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Lesser Demons
Join us at Heritage Hall at the Duncan United Church for Lesser Demons from May 2 – 5 and 9- 12. Thursday & Friday Evening performances at 7:30; Saturday and Sunday Matinees at 2:30 Lesser Demons, written and directed by Dorothy Dittrich, has a clever, funny and unusual plot. When Hannah agrees to a little weekend…
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Tartuffe
Mercury Players Society’s next production, Tartuffe is the most famous work by Molière,the great 17th-century French satirist. Orgon’s family is up in arms because Orgon andhis mother have fallen under the influence of Tartuffe, a lecherous conman pretending tobe a pious spiritual adviser. Orgon and his mother no longer take any action without firstconsulting him.…
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Comfort and Joy
All the world’s a stage…but retired actress Joy has stage fright. When son Mitch proposes Christmas dinner with Gini’s rich Shaughnessy family, Joy’s coping strategy threatens to provide anything but comfort. You can take the actor off the stage but… Joy can’t help seeking attention. Mitch is caught between his mother’s outlandish behaviour and his…
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The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble
This powerful, heart-tugging, darkly funny play is about middle child Iris Trimble trying to hold it all together after her mother, Bernice, a lively, recently widowed sixty-five year old breaks the news that she has early onset Alzheimer’s. In an effort to cope with the stress, Iris makes her mother’s famous Everything-That-Is-Bad-For-You casserole, a childhood favourite. Her…
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The Female of the Species – Staged Reading
What is a staged reading?A staged reading is theatre in its purest form. No set, no props, no (or little) costumes. The lights will not turn on and off. Actors interact and perform the story with scripts in front of them. Some stage directions will be read to help set the scene. The closest approximation…
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The Seventh Seal – Staged Reading
‘The Seventh Seal’, originally widely acclaimed as ‘one of the greatest films of all time’, was written by Ingmar Bergman, and has now been adapted for stage by Mercury Theatre’s own John Mowat Steven. Rob Foell directs the adaptation as a staged reading. Personified Death comes to take the soul of an errant knight at…
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Constellations – Staged Reading
Saturday, April 27, 2024Presented at the Sands Funeral Chapel Reception Centre – Entrance is on Ypres St.Admission at the door by donation to the Mercury Players. Mercury Players’ third and final staged reading of the season is taking flight! Roland (a bee keeper) and Marianne (a theoretical physicist) meet at a party. In that single…
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Tempting Providence
This magically inventive comedy-drama will transport you back to a time when people struggled, even harder than today, to survive. The nearest hospital was days away and forceful weather, disease, work accidents, malnutrition, and childbirth could claim your life quickly. You will meet the hard working people of Daniel’s Harbour, an outport with a vast…
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Mrs. Reynolds and the Ruffian
MERCURY PLAYERS SHOW ASKS: CAN A BAD SEED EVER GROW? The Mercury Players are presenting Mrs. Reynolds and the Ruffian, a drama by Welsh Playwright Gary Owen , about a lonely but determined senior, trying to keep her neighbourhood clean and friendly, and the menacing young man who vandalizes her cherished garden and the local…
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The Women of Lockerbie
On December 21, 1988 PanAm Flight 103 crashed onto a residential street in Lockerbie, Scotland. Seven years later “The Women of Lockerbie” are still struggling to come to terms with the fallout from the Lockerbie Bombing. This is a fictional play inspired by the Lockerbie Laundry Ladies who laundered the passengers’ clothing so that it…
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