The Big Lad

2015:
THE BIG LAD
By Jason Rip
Director Adam Corrigan Holowitz

Company
Shayne Coffin, Taylor Bogaert, Tyshia Drake
John Turner, Demis Odanga

Music Director Stephen Holowitz
Designer Sue Parke
Stage Manager Vicki Nicholls

A World War One drama that cuts, with a precise and feeling eye, to the heart of war and paints a detailed portrait of war on the home front.

When Danny Gamble cannot join the army because of hearing loss he becomes fixated on ostracizing the local German citizens of the Southern Ontario town where he lives. The results reveal dark prejudices that reside in the town that are galvanized by war. Juxtaposed to Danny is the Big Lad, a peaceful boy who looks bigger than his age and becomes an unwilling soldier and hero.

PERFORMANCE TIMES
July 14, 15, 22, 28, 29 at 7:30 pm
July 22 at 2:00 pm

Location:
Fanshawe Pioneer Village
1424 Clarke Road
Tickets: $15
For tickets call: 519-457-1296

Shayne Coffin in The Big Lad. 2015. Photo by Richard Gilmore.

AlvegoRoot's 2015 Season was supported by the London Heritage Council through the City of London's Community Heritage Investment Program.

AlvegoRoot acknowledges that we create work on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak and Attawandaron peoples as well as nations both recorded and unrecorded who have been caretakers of this land for time immemorial. These lands are connected with the London Township and Sombra Treaties of 1796 and the Dish with One Spoon Covenant Wampum.