The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

(A Theatre For Young Audiences Production)

March 15th – 17th, 2023

Touring

With only a cast of two, and minimal set, props and costumes, the story of this beloved children’s classic is told through clever staging and engages the imaginations of audience of all ages.

Samuel Stout

A Musical Staged Reading

March 10th – 7:30 pm

Church of the Ascension, Port Perry

Join us on the next step of our journey towards a full production of this compelling new work by Uju Umenyi. Building on the powerful first draft presented as part of Ontario Culture Days Creatives in Residence, we now explore the role of music in the play and in the life of Samuel Stout, Port Perry’s first Black resident.

The Adventures of the Soul Sistas

(illustration by Monique Ra Brent)

A Staged Book Reading

Church of the Ascension, Port Perry

February 25th

The Adventures of the Soul Sistas, by Newton Vanriel, is now a bestselling children’s book which celebrates diversity and the true meaning of family through the eyes of two wonderful superheroes.

Join author Newton Vanriel and actors Audra Gray (The Drowning Girls) and Amanda Jane Smith (Cottagers and Indians) for a very special book reading.

Friday, November 18th, 7:30 pm
The Hand In The Window by Dave Ellis
Amelia Torn by Mike Trites
Welcome Home by Greg Gallagher

Saturday, November 19th
A Working Farm by Peter Paylor
North Wood Spirit by Greg Gallagher
Waiting For Winnie by Conrad Boyce
Early Bird by Craig Martin

Theatre on the Ridge presents new work by six Southern Ontario playwrights at the 2nd Port Perry Snapshots Festival on November 18 & 19. The festival, which began in 2021, continues to draw on moments, or “snapshots”, from our community in Scugog, that could define a single life, or life in a small Ontario town. This year, in recognition of the company’s new partnership with Scugog Shores Museum Village, we’ve reached into the past and six snapshots taken on the museum grounds were selected as writing prompts to inspire new one act plays.

There will be a post show conversation for the audience with the playwrights and artists after each performance. The readings will be directed by Theatre on the Ridge Artistic Director, Carey Nicholson. Some plays contain strong language and mature content.

Tickets are now $25 each for either performance, with a festival pass for both performances only $40.

It’s been two years of sitting behind screens, standing six feet apart and not making physical contact with each other. This season, we put our successful Something From Nothing playwriting workshop on its feet and welcome physical theatre maker extraordinaire, Andy Massingham to create a new work on our summer company that gets off the page, onto the stage and back into our bodies.

Celebrating the power of theatre to communicate beyond words, this collaborative new piece will exercise our artists’ creativity and entertain and engage our audiences in a way that we haven’t been able to experience for far too long.

General admission seating. Bring your own chairs. No Intermission. All ages.

Duncan has always been a pretty boring guy. Then he stumbles upon Brenda, a sad young woman who’s about to end her life. Convinced he’s fallen in love, Duncan strikes up a desperate deal: if he can get her to laugh, she’ll give life another shot. There’s just one catch: Duncan isn’t funny. At all.

Cue the entrance of Duncan’s second favourite comedian, Pat Wallace to save the day. But Pat has problems of his own and the last he wants to do is teach a lonely loser the difference between knock-knock jokes and schadenfreude while chained to a typewriter.

A contemporary life and death tragicomedy of three misfits, Punch Up navigates a hostage situation and a life-or-death comedy lesson to show just how far we’ll go for a laugh, and along the way celebrates some of the most iconic moments and schticks of classic comedy.

General Admisson seating. Bring your own chairs. No Intermission.
​Strong language and mature content and subject matter. Recommended as age 14+.