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Next up on the GP stage:

Coming November 2023

DIRECTED BY BILL LOGAN

Performance dates: November 11 - 12 and November 18-19, 2023.

 

The play is set in the northeast suburbs of London in the month of October. It tells the story of Candida, the wife of a famous clergyman, the Reverend James Mavor Morell. Morell is a Christian Socialist, popular in the Church of England, but Candida is responsible for much of his success. Candida returns home briefly from a trip to London with Eugene Marchbanks, a young aspiring poet who wants to rescue her from what he presumes to be her dull family life. Marchbanks is in love with Candida and believes she deserves something more than just complacency from her husband. He considers her divine, and his love eternal. In his view, it is quite improper and humiliating for Candida to have to attend to petty household chores. Ultimately, Candida must choose between the two gentlemen.

Recent Presentations

Meet Me In St. Louis...May 2023

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From 2022:  Babes In Toyland

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2018–19 at GP

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2017–18 at GP

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Bourgeois Gentilhomme

Our Friend Bill

The Gingerbread Players were fortunate for many years to have our own resident composer, William Ryden, who wrote the music for three original shows— Ragtag!Through the Looking Glass, The Sleeping Beauty and Nowell! — and contributed to, arranged or compiled the music for several others, including our unique World War I commemoration, Over There! in 2017 (see photo, below).

 

We will always remember Bill as a brilliant talent and a kind and wonderful friend. Bill died in January 2018. His uniquely inspiring presence will be sorely missed, but his contribution to GP lives on not only in his musical influence but in the new lighting system enabled by the Bill Ryden Memorial Fund, which will be unveiled for the first time in all its glory in Shrek.

Wind in the Willows, 2016

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Namesake Gingerbread Cookies

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, 2017

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