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Oakville Drama Series

The Oakville Drama Series is one of Oakville's best-kept secrets.  For the past twenty-five years they have been producing a homegrown subscription season full of comedy, farce, drama, thriller, mystery and musical.  Three local community theatre groups work together to produce the seven different plays equalling 49 performances, annual series: The Burl-Oak Theatre Group, The Oakville Players and West End Studio Theatre.

New Subscribers
Orders for new subcriptions are now being accepted.  Subscription price is $135.00 per person.  Single tickets for individual performances go on sale Monday August 8, 2011 at 11:00 am by phone, in person or online!  Single ticket price is $27 and Students and Seniors can purchase individual tickets for the Wednesday performance at a reduced rate of $19.50 per ticket.

Please contact the box office by phone or in person for new subscription order(s).

5 Play FlexiPack
$118.00 per person.  Please note that FlexiPack subscriptions are not renewable and that you must contact the box office by phone or in person to select the 5 plays you would like for the next season.

Please note that new subscriptions are filled in order of date received, after all renewals are completed.

A Life in the Theatre
by David Mamet
September 8-11 | September 14-17, 2011
In a series of play snippets that run the gamut from melodrama and sheer corn to pseudo-Chekhov, they protray the reality as well as the illusion of acting. Mishaps of the kind peculiar to the theatre occur with hilarious regularity.

Salt-Water Moon
by David French
October 6-9 | October 12-15, 2011
It's a splendid moon-filled night at Coley's Point, Newfoundland in August, 1926. Jocob Mercer has returned from Toronto to the tiny out port, hoping to win back his former sweetheart, Mary Snow. In his absence, however, Mary has decided to accept the marriage proposal of Jerome McKenzie, the local schoolmaster.  A gently humorous, deeply affecting play by one of Canada's most respected writers.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield
November 3-6 | November 9-12, 2011
This fast paced, hilarious and energetic play will have you laughing so hard you will need to hold your sides.  It is a clever adaptation of all thirtyseven of Shakespeare's plays, full of outrageous twists and turns which include a cooking show, rap song and football game. Do not fear; there is no need to have knowledge of Shakespears's works. Be prepared to be thoroughly entertained! Produced by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.

Over the River and Through the Woods
by Joe DiPietro
January 5-8 | January 11-14, 2012
Nick is a single, Italian-American guy from New Jersey who routinely visits both sets of his grandparents every Sunday for dinner.  A dream job he's been waiting for threatens to take him away from his belovd, but annoying grandparents.  Thus begins a series of schemes to keep Nick around.

The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
February 9-12 | February 15-18, 2012
Winner of the 1953 Tony Award for Best Play. This exciting drama about the Puritan purge of witchcraft in old Salem is both a gripping historical play and a timely parable of our contemporary society.

Harvey
by Mary Chase
March 22-25 | March 28-31, 2012
Elwood P. Dowd is a sweet, kind man who has an imaginary friend, a pooka named Harvey.  Elwood enjoys spending his days with Harvey, introducing him to all. This eccentric behavoiur becomes increasingly embarrassing to Elwood's social climbing sister, Veta, so she decides to have him committed to a sanitarium.  Here the fun begins! Enjoy this delightful tale of the adventures of mild mannered Elwood and his invisibe best friend. "Harvey" earned Chase a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Harvey is produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Schoolhouse
by Leanna Brodie
April 19-22 | April 15-28, 2012
In 1938 within the walls of S.S. #1 Jericho School, a one-room schoolhouse, a delightful but unmanageable group of children finally meets its match- Melita Linton, an 18 year old teacher fresh out of Normal School. Schoolhouse explores timeless themes of rejection, of compassion, of damage, of hope.

Sunday Matinees are now available for all 7shows!

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