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Sharing an audience with Stuart MacLean's Vinyl Cafe crowd, Elliott's homage to a semi-rural Ontario childhood nostalgia-fest is a sure-fire crowd pleaser for anyone from the generation prior to the last three letters of the alphabet. This musical and moving image performance is a confident, well performed and very personal visit to a past that is comforting to the intended audience and likely quite foreign to anyone born after 1970. The subject matter and imagery described and shown is both familiar and nostalgic. The reminiscences are important to recognize, as history informs who we are, even as emotionally reliving...

   A collaborative project by Blackjacq Productions and Clockwork Theatre, The Green Room Theatre Project selects nine youth who get the chance to work with professional artists learning the entire process of creating a theatrical production. The Green Room Presents… is a devised play which is the culmination and final showcase of the program.  Created and performed by amateur youth artists, the show is far from professional quality theatre, but it has its share of shining moments. 

    The theme of the show is growing up, and it opens with a vocal montage of moments throughout a single life,...