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Director’s Notes

     How well do you know your friends? How well do your friends know you?  Why is it so hard for us to allow ourselves to be known to others?  We all wear masks of one sort or another; it’s easier to allow others to see just a little of who we are.  We don’t want others to see the warts.

Playwright Norm Foster has given us a play that has a great deal of humor – and allows us to see as friends of many years allow themselves to drop their masks for a moment or two.  What happens then?  Vulnerability; the act of allowing others to see us more clearly.  And maybe, just maybe, have them accept us as we are.

I hope that tonight you will laugh with us; that you will feel the vulnerability of friends when they open their hearts to each other.  Hopefully this can give you a reason to open yourself to one or two friends.  Who knows, they may not mind the warts!

About The Author

Norm Foster has been called Canada’s preeminent comic playwright, and he is also one of the most prolific and most produced of all Canadian playwrights. Halifax Chronicle-Herald columnist Ron Foley writes “Foster’s stage writing remains one of Canada’s greatest theatrical treasures”, and The Calgary Herald describes him as “one of the funniest writers of intelligent comedy in Canadian theatre today”. Mr. Foster has close to forty plays to his credit including ETHAN CLAYMORE, THE FOURSOME, THE MELVILLE BOYS, THE AFFECTIONS OF MAY, WRONG FOR EACH OTHER, JASPER STATION (with Steve Thomas), THE LAST RESORT (with Leslie Arden), THE LOVE LIST, OUTLAW, JENNY’S HOUSE OF JOY, and MENDING FENCES. He is the recipient of the Los Angeles Drama-Logue Award for his play, THE MELVILLE BOYS, and he was recently honoured with an award from Theatre Ontario for his ‘distinguished service to Ontario ‘s theatre community.’

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