2025 SEASON
March 19, 20, 22, 23, 27 - 30, April 11, 12, 13 2025
Daniel MacIvor’s chilling one-person show featuring performer David Baker.
Finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Drama, Monster peels back the psychological layers of 16 different characters to reveal the dark heart of individual experience. With a masterful blend of suspense, humour and raw emotion, Monster invites you to confront your fears and embrace the complexities that make us human
A Co-Production with Théâtre Roulant and No Name Theatre
Monster
Written by: Daniel MacIvor Directed by: David Baker & John Burns Featuring: David Baker Lighting: John Burns Sound & Pre-Show Live Music: Alfie Latanski
Venue # 1: Upfront Cafe & Bar, 313 Front St., Belleville (March 19, 20, 22, 23) Venue # 2: Karlo Estates, 561 Danforth Rd, Wellington (March 27-30, April 11-13)
When purchasing your tickets, please be sure of the event date and location. There are two separate events set up, one for each location.
Théâtre Roulant Pre-Season Féte
Sunday May 25, 3-5pm at The Andrew, 31 King St, Picton
Preview Our 2025 Summer Season!
Canada's only horse-drawn caravan presents a spring sampler of our 2025 season, featuring a very special guest: Award-Winning Author Maureen Jennings, author of the popular television series 'Murdoch Mysteries' and writer of 'No Traveler Returns', premiering on our stage this season. Don’t miss your chance to rub shoulders with the cast, grab an autograph, and enjoy live music, complimentary drinks and canapés (while supplies last).
Admission is free, but seating is limited and reservations are recommended.
A surprise "one day only" season ticket special will be revealed.
No Traveller Returns
July 3 - 5, 8 - 12, 2025
It is shortly before Christmas, 1895 and the Mourne Valley Inn is chock full of guests who are anticipating the celebrations of the Lieutenant-Governor at his Manse. Decorations are on the tree, the fire is blazing in the hearth; outside, the snow is falling, Beneath this cheery exterior however, much darker currents are stirring. The snow develops into a fierce storm which traps the inhabitants of the Inn. A dastardly crime occurs. It is imperative to determine who is the culprit. It can only be one of them. But whom? And why?
Original Stage Play written by: Maureen Jennings
Directed by: Lise Lindenberg
Stage Manager: Colleen Johnson
Assistant Stage Manager: Ellie Lindenberg
Featuring: Dave Henderson, Michael Code, Leah Hamilton, James Fraser, Bill Petch, Sarah Kirby, Wendy Roy
Original Music: Howard Lopez
Location: The Waring House, 395 Sandy Hood Road, Picton
Shakes-beer Rides Again!
July 22 - 26, 29 - Aug 2, 2025
Shakes-beer returns to the County in2025 with all new comedic sketches based on the Bard’s plays and characters. Lend us your ears for an evening and you’ll learn how Romeo and Juliet actually met by being contestants on The Dating Game, how King Lear attempts to soothe his madness by visiting a modern shrink, and how Lady Macbeth’s sleep-walking scene goes awry. All the world’s a stage but the one at The Waring House has the most action.
Original Stage Play written by: Mike Kirby
Directed by: Mike Kirby
Stage Manager: Colleen Johnson
Artistic Director: Conrad Beaubien
Featuring: David Baker, James Fraser, Jean Parker, Sarah Kirby, Wendy Roy, Gage Broderick
Location: The Waring House, 395 Sandy Hood Road, Picton
Reading Series
Sundays in October, 2025 October 5, 12, 19 & 26 from 1-4pm Wellington Library
Interested in working with us next season? We would love to meet you! Join us for a script reading. After, we will discuss what we read, listen to thoughts and opinions and mingle. No preparation necessary. Previous stage experience helpful but not required. Free event. All welcome.
To Register for one or more Sunday sessions please email sarah@theatreroulant.ca
Pre-registration is helpful and appreciated by our organizers so we can decide what play to read with the people who have signed up. You will receive a confirmation.
If you’re a playwright and would like to have your script read, please submit it at the same email address above.
A Christmas to Remember
To be aired on 99.3 County FM … Christmas 2025.
In the 1950’s eight workers in a remote lumber camp won the luck of the draw for seats on a supply plane to take them home for Christmas. When the plane went down in a gale, it would take more than luck for them to survive.
A 99.3 County FM live recording of an actors’ reading accompanied by original music.
Screenplay written by: Conrad Beaubien Directed by: John Burns & Conrad Beaubien Featuring: Roxanne Mackenzie, Wendy Roy, Bill McMahon, Sarah Kirby, Micheline Cox, Paulina McMahon, Liz Simpson, David Burns, Pat Larkin, Sid Wells, Fran Larkin, Lenni Stewart, Mike Kirby, Tomas Crossley, Gage Broderick Music: Matti Kopamees, Telegraph Narrows; Greg Stanners & Renay Wizeman-Stanners Music Composition & Arrangement: Rene Brossard Sound: Alfie Latanski Venue: The Andrew, 31 King Street, Picton, ON
Postponed
Since the launch of Shakespeare’s early plays in 16th century England, the works of William Shakespeare have been performed in many languages around the world. But why have the stories lasted and are they relatable to today? Join us on an adventure! Whereto doth he travel? From time to time? Or through time? Enjoy the wonders of shadow puppetry. A performance with appeal for young and old.
Based on an original story by acclaimed children’s author Lois Burdett. Featuring innovative music and the puppetry magic of Judy Cole.
Presented by Station Road Arts, a partner in literacy with The County of Prince Edward Public Library & Archives
Shakespeare Rides a Bike
An Original Stage Play written by: Lois Burdett Directed by: John Burns Venue: Picton Library
February 14, 15, 23, 2025
When Andrew Makepeace Ladd III accepts an invitation to Melissa Gardner’s birthday party, and Melissa writes a thank-you note to ask just why he got her “The Lost Princess of Oz” (answer: she looks like a lost princess), a romantic friendship and correspondence destined to last for almost half a century is born. Both from affluent, East Coast families -- Melissa has more money, but Andy has better parents -- the friends communicate with each other through angst-ridden boarding school experiences, European adventures, failed marriages, and the ups and downs of career. Over the course of their lives, Andy and Melissa’s relationship goes through many changes, as the sometimes-sweethearts/sometimes-friends go through periods of estrangement, and the intense, clandestine affair which will accelerate Melissa’s emotional breakdown. Despite the painful differences which will ultimately tear them apart, they remain each other’s most trusted confidante, and are “true lovers” on paper, if not on the earth. A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters is a tender, tragi-comic, and nuanced examination of the shared nostalgia, missed opportunities, and deep closeness of two lifelong, complicated friends. While spanning five decades and numerous locations, it is staged simply, with two actors behind desks or sitting in cozy chairs, letting their words describe a world of emotion.
Love Letters
Written by: A.R. Gurney Directed by: John Burns Featuring: Sarah Kirby and David Burns Feb 14 & 15, Pat Larkin & Liz Simpson Feb 23 Lighting: John Burns Live Music: Megan Hutton & Gabe Guadagnin on Friday and Robert Keyes on Saturday & Sunday
Venue: Karlo Estates, 561 Danforth Road, Wellington. Doors open at 6pm (1pm for the matinee). See Karlo Estates website for Valentine’s Day special offerings of wine, port and dinner. Sunday “bubble brunch” options.