On the banks of the nut
written and directed by Stewart Lemoine
Running: May 30 - June 15, 2025
preview: May 29thStarring
Bella King as Norine Cuthbert
Sam Free as Pinkerton Sprague
Rachel Bowron as Vivien Phlox
Mathew Hulshof as Ingo Flussveld
Karen Johnson Diamond as Sylvia Partangle
ABOUT
One of Lemoine’s zippiest screwball comedies returns in its first revival since 2010. In this uniquely bucolic escapade, an affably inept federal talent agent and a plucky temp embark on a hare-brained talent quest in rural Wisconsin in 1951. Their madcap project involves bird-watching, pie, the music of Mahler, a pair of embattled star-crossed lovers, and the abruptest civic election in history, all at the curiously appointed Nut River Lodge. “I found the cheese room!”
RUN TIME APPROXIMATELY 1 HOUR & 45 minutes plus A 15 MINUTE INTERMISSIONSPECIAL TICKETS
PREVIEW: All tickets are $25 each
PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN: Tuesday, June 3rd or Tuesday, June 10th
FREE WINE AND CHEESE: The Teatro Board of Directors invites you to attend on Wednesday, June 4th for Free Wine and Cheese at intermission.
$67 DINNER AND A SHOW PACKAGE: 1 ticket and 1 appetizer and entree from Boxer Kitchen and Bar
$98 WINE AND CHARCUTERIE PACKAGE: 2 tickets PLUS 2 glasses of wine and 1 charcuterie platter at Boxer Kitchen and Bar
All Performances take place at VARSCONA THEATRE - Learn how to get to the theatre here
Evening performances start at 7:30 PM
Sunday Matinees start at 2 PM
Varscona Theatre lobby opens 45 minutes before the start of the performance
CREATIVE TEAM
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Rachel made her Teatro debut in 2011 as Oiseau in The Hoof and Mouth Advantage, and has since appeared with the company in Eros and the Itchy Ant, Barefoot in the Park, Saint Albert, Going, Going, Gone, A Lesson in Brio, A Likely Story, Caribbean Muskrat, Love is for Poor People, and The Oculist’s Holiday. Her local credits include Clue, The Garneau Block and The Candidate/The Party at the Citadel, and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike for Shadow Theatre. She’s also appeared at the Mayfield Dinner Theatre, most recently in The Full Monty and she has numerous Fringe credits, including last year’s Bright Lights. Rachel is a graduate of Grant MacEwan University Theatre Arts, and was music director of the St. Albert Children’s Theatre for 10 years. She’s recently become a Teatro costume designer with A Grand Time in the Rapids and The Exquisite Hour/Love is for Poor People, as well as the filmed production A Fit, Happy Life.
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Sam is an Edmonton-born actor who graduated from the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting Program in 2022. He is so full of excitement about this show, that he hopes that very excitement takes liquid form and slowly trickles it’s way over into your excitement, so that your excitement won’t have enough room, causing the dam holding it all to burst open and flood the lives of people who didn’t even know they had the capacity to be excited about this sort of thing. Want to see more of Sam’s acting? Come watch Checked Out this summer at the 2025 Edmonton Fringe Festival.
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Leona has worked regularly with Teatro as a performer and designer since the company’s inception at the first Edmonton Fringe in 1982. Her appearances include such classic Teatro shows as Cocktails at Pam’s, and The Vile Governess and Other Psychodramas, and Pith. Leona has been Teatro’s principal costume designer for four decades, and her recent company costume credits include The Noon Witch, The Woman in Black, Private Lives, The Oculist’s Holiday, Pith, Everybody Goes to Mitzi’s, and Deathtrap. Her other recent credits include Clue, and Jersey Boys at the Citadel and After Mourning - Before Van Gogh and Where You Are for Shadow Theatre. She’s worked on many shows for The Mayfield Dinner Theatre including the recent Flashback Fever. Leona designed costumes for the feature film Before I Change My Mind, directed by Trevor Anderson. She was honoured with a 2020 Edmonton Artist’s Trust Fund Award from the Edmonton Arts Council, and she’s a three-time Sterling Award winner for costume design. Next up for Leona at Teatro: The Odd Couple.
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After doing Scenic Construction/Carpentry on numerous Teatro shows in recent seasons, Tiana is now the company’s first official Production Manager. A graduate of Grant MacEwan University’s Theatre Production program, Tiana has spent the last two decades working in Edmonton Theatre, where extreme weather, fire, illnesses, broken scenery, aggressive prop handling, and squirrels have taught her much about problem solving and remaining calm in a crisis. Past credits include working as Production Manager for FreeWill Shakespeare Festival, Head of Lighting and Carpentry for Theatre Network, and Technical Director for Alberta Musical Theatre (formerly Alberta Opera). Her favourite show experiences include doing scenic construction for AMTC’s Pinocchio while 7 months pregnant, and building the tricky/scary sets for The Woman in Black both at Theatre Network and Teatro Live.
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Karen is making her Teatro Live debut in this production. Raised in Sherwood Park, she is now a Calgary resident, delighted to be back in Edmonton and close to her mom who dislikes reading bios that are just “lists of shows”. So, let’s pause here to acknowledge that Stewart Lemoine once gave Karen a recipe for an amazing Dutch Oven bread. Recent acting credits: Every Brilliant Thing – Verb Theatre, For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again -Rosebud Theatre, A Christmas Carol - Theatre Calgary, and Where You Are – Theatre Northwest. Karen also works as a director and improviser and is a long-time fan (and occasional guest) of DieNasty – The Improvised Soap Opera. Karen loves Kevin, Griffin, Hailey, and Neil Diamond.
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Stewart Lemoine (Writer/Director) Stewart has been writing and directing for Teatro La Quindicina since the first Edmonton Fringe in 1982. His most recent works premiered by Teatro include Love is for Poor People, A Likely Story, A Lesson in Brio, The Finest of Strangers, I Heard About Your Murder, and For the Love of Cynthia. In recent seasons, Teatro has also presented revivals of his The Noon Witch, The Oculist’s Holiday, Pith, The Exquisite Hour, The Margin of the Sky, Evelyn Strange, A Grand Time in the Rapids, Fever Land, and Cocktails at Pam’s. His published work includes A Teatro Trilogy, At the Zenith of the Empire, and Witness to a Conga and Other Plays, all from NeWest Press. Stewart is a ten-time winner of Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards for Playwriting, and in 2008 he was the winner of The Tommy Banks Award, presented by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. He’s a recipient of both the Queen’s Golden Jubilee and Diamond Jubilee Medals, and in 2010 he was inducted into Edmonton’s Cultural Hall of Fame. In 2023 he collaborated with Andrew MacDonald-Smith and pianist Frances Armstrong on an original cabaret show entitled Andrew MacDonald-Smith: My First Hundred Years, presented by Edmonton Opera.
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Rory is a designer, performer, and theatre maker from the prairies, and made his Teatro debut with the recent production of The Noon Witch. He attended the Theatre Arts program at MacEwan University and studied theatre design at the University of Alberta. He is a design instructor at the Citadel’s Foote Theatre School, a lighting designer for Common Ground Arts’ RISER production development projects, and the Scenic Arts Supervisor for the U of A Drama Department. Rory is also a freelance draftsman and scale model maker. Selected design credits: Is My Microphone On? (Citadel Young Company), The Immaculate Perfection… (Body Cube Arts), Hyena’s Trail (Here For Fear Collective), MINE, In My Own Little Corner, Omisimawiw, After Faust, The Debut (Common Ground Arts). Selected acting credits: Onions and Garlic, The Importance of Being Earnest, Creatures of Impulse, She's Not Him and He's Not Her, The Flying Doctor (Empress of Blandings).
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Charlotte is excited to be making her Teatro Live! debut on this incredible production. She is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA Stage Management program. She would like to thank her family and friends for always supporting and encouraging her! Enjoy the show! Recent select credits include: The Full Monty (Mayfield Dinner Theatre); The Ballad of Johnny and June (Citadel Theatre); The Play That Goes Wrong (Citadel Theatre/Theatre Calgary); Three Musketeers (Citadel Theatre); Meteor Shower (Theatre Calgary), Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night (Freewill Shakespeare); Trouble In Mind (Citadel Theatre); Home for the Holidays (Lunchbox Theatre).
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Lore is thrilled to be making her Teatro debut! Selected credits include: A Christmas Carol, West Side Story, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Sense & Sensibility, Hadestown, Silver Arrow, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Clue, Jersey Boys, Rubaboo, and The Importance of Being Earnest (Citadel Theatre); The Play That Goes Wrong (Citadel Theatre/Theatre Calgary/RMTC); Disney’s Frozen (Citadel/Grand Theatre); The Wars, Mamma Mia and Titanic (Grand Theatre); First Métis Man of Odesa, and Takwahiminana (Punctuate! Theatre). My love to B and Juju.
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Bella is thrilled to be returning to Teatro after debuting with the company in Everybody Goes to Mitzi’s in 2023! She’s a two-time Sterling Award nominated actor based here in amiskwacîwâskahikan/ Edmonton, and a 2018 graduate of Theatre Arts at Grant MacEwan University. Her credits include The Rocky Horror Show (Grindstone Theatre), High School Musical (Uniform Theatre), The Capricorn Cabaret (Conwitz Prod.), Scoobie Doosical (Dammitammy Productions), [title of show], The Last Five Years (Straight Edge Theatre), Cinderella, and Fun Home (Plain Jane Theatre). You can see her again this summer in Assassins and Final Girl at the Edmonton Fringe Festival. Big thanks to Ralla, Everett, Stewart, and the entire cast and crew of On The Banks of the Nut!
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Chantel Fortin (Set Designer) Chantel made her Teatro debut with Cocktails at Pam’s in 2016 and her subsequent set designs for the company include The Noon Witch, Private Lives, The Oculist’s Holiday, The Exquisite Hour/Love is for Poor People, Deathtrap, A Grand Time in the Rapids, Evelyn Strange, Shockers Delight!, and Witness to a Conga, the last of which earned her a Sterling nomination. She also designed the sets for Teatro’s 2021 streaming project Lost Lemoine: Parts One and Two. She’s a freelance scenic artist and prop master who’s been working in film and theatre in Edmonton for the past 19 years. Her other set design credits include Our Man in Havana for Bright Young Things, Going to St. Ives and Mesa for Atlas Theatre, and Shadow Theatre’s Fly Me to the Moon. She’s also done scenic painting and prop work for Workshop West, The Citadel, and Edmonton Opera. In other media, she was the production designer for the Government of Alberta’s Mr. Covidhead commercials, and she did the art direction for music videos by singer Roya Yazdanmehr. She also served as production designer for feature length films produced locally by Northern Gateway Films under the Hallmark banner, and for Dept. 9’s most recent feature Souls Road.
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Mathew made his debut with Teatro in Mrs. Lindeman Proposes at the 2011 Fringe, and has subsequently appeared in The Euphorians, The Nutcracker Unhinged, Hey, Countess!, For the Love of Cynthia, I Heard About Your Murder, A Lesson in Brio, A Likely Story, A Momentary Lapse, and in the 2021 streaming video production A Fit, Happy Life. His other local credits include Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberly and A Christmas Carol for the Citadel, Bed and Breakfast at Theatre Network, Happy Birthday, Baby J at Shadow Theatre, and Our Man in Havana for Bright Young Things. He’s also been seen at Workshop West and the Mayfield Dinner Theatre, and his performance in Concrete Theatre’s 2012 touring production of Smokescreen won him a Sterling Award. Currently residing in Toronto, Mathew spent most of 2024 in Paris (France!) where he appeared with Alchemy Theatre in a staged reading of Chekov’s The Three Sisters.