Burn
By John Muggleton
Directed by Julia Lalonde
November 21 – December 7, 2025
Old 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 has asked to meet the three friends for the first time, stating that she has something important to deliver. Over the evening’s meeting, Eve becomes awkward, eerie, strange and sinister. As the evening unravels, the chaos erupts with hidden secrets revealed.
Canadian Wild Flowers
By Louise Phillips
Directed by Layne Kriwoken
February 20 – March 8, 2026
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 out to create the very first book of Canadian wild flowers. Without a single colour press in the colony to print her illustrations, Agnes fears her dream will wither on the vine. A Victorian woman in a man’s world, she faces her publisher’s reluctance, her mother’s disapproval and her own self-doubt. Enlisting the aid of her three young daughters to hand paint each drawing, Agnes discovers the importance of family and of belief in her dream…and forever changes Canadian book publishing.
Timepiece
By Kico Gonzales-Risso
Directed by Louise Phillips
April 24 – May 10, 2026
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 is a funny, poignant and respectful look at ageing, marriage and family dynamics.
Mercury Players Society performs at Duncan United Church, 246 Ingram St.
