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Check out our Next Show
The Jigsaw Puzzle

By Ann Snead

Join us at the Newton Cultural Centre April 24-26
Explore the relationship between three characters as they come to terms with the past. Over a long weekend alliances are made, secrets revealed, the past confronted. In the end, everything - & nothing - is changed.

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Upcoming Shows

Fri, Apr 24
Friday 7:30 pm - The Jigsaw Puzzle
Newton Cultural Centre
Tickets
Apr 24, 2026, 8:30 p.m. PDT
Newton Cultural Centre, 13530 72 Ave, Surrey, BC V3W 2P1, Canada
Explores the relationship between three characters as they come to terms with the past. Over a long weekend alliances are made, secrets revealed, the past confronted. In the end, everything - & nothing - is changed.
Sat, Apr 25
Sat 7:30 pm - The Jigsaw Puzzle
Newton Cultural Centre
Tickets
Apr 25, 2026, 8:30 p.m. PDT
Newton Cultural Centre, 13530 72 Ave, Surrey, BC V3W 2P1, Canada
Explores the relationship between three characters as they come to terms with the past. Over a long weekend alliances are made, secrets revealed, the past confronted. In the end, everything - & nothing - is changed.
Sun, Apr 26
Sun 2 pm - The Jigsaw Puzzle
Newton Cultural Centre
Tickets
Apr 26, 2026, 2:00 p.m. PDT
Newton Cultural Centre, 13530 72 Ave, Surrey, BC V3W 2P1, Canada
Explores the relationship between three characters as they come to terms with the past. Over a long weekend alliances are made, secrets revealed, the past confronted. In the end, everything - & nothing - is changed.

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Meet the Cast & Crew of our next show -Savannah Disputation

Simon Challenger - Director

Faith is a complicated business. While it may instill certainty and security in many, it can also leave us open to doubt, fear, loneliness and regret. What happens when something (or someone) comes along and challenges our faith?

Is it enough to simply accept what we believe as the tenets of faith without question, without truly understanding them? Can belief withstand scrutiny? What if you don’t have an answer to hard questions? Is your own faith enough?

Meet Mary and Margaret, elderly sisters, devout Catholics comfortable in their faith as they go about their lives. Enter Melissa, a fervent evangelist who comes knocking at their door challenging their faith and trying to convert them to her version of Christianity. Will they resist or succumb?

As ever, humour is a useful device to use to look at a serious subject like faith, to poke a little fun at the differences between supposedly similar beliefs. After all, Catholicism and evangelism are both Christian faiths aren’t they? Playwright, Evan Smith, gives us an entertaining theological and philosophical debate on faith using character and situation to examine the differences.

Many thanks to Naked Stage for the opportunity to direct this play and, as always, I’m grateful to the wonderful actors who came along for the ride. Enjoy.

Judy McLellan - Mary

Judy has been performing in theatres throughout the lower mainland for more than 30 years. She has been fortunate enough to perform in many different kinds of theatre including pantomimes, musical theatre, comedies, operas and of course, readers theatre. She’s delighted to once again be on the “Naked Stage” (along with her best southern accent), and to work with such a wonderful cast & crew. She hopes you enjoy the show!

Nancy Painter - Margaret

Nancy Painter returns to Naked Stage after a five-year hiatus during which she went back to school and changed careers. Her favourite roles with Naked Stage include librarian Emily Reed in “Alabama Story”, unfulfilled housewife Vi in “Jacques Plante and the Parkdale Knitting League”, and activist Nellie McClung in “The Fighting Days”. She has three adult children and one extremely active and opinionated 3 ½ year old grandson. (Oh, her new career? A church minister!)

Natalie Schreiber - Melissa

Natalie is a Vancouver-born theatre performer based in New Westminster. “The Savannah Disputation” marks her first show with Naked Stage. Whereas some performers might get the ‘ick’ from religious plays, she jumped at the chance to play a Southern fundamentalist Christian and to tackle some juicy theological subject matter. Thanks for coming along on this ride with us. Recent credits include: “Tony & Tina’s Wedding”, Hammer Up Productions; “Sister Act”, Theatre in the Country; “Monster”, Direct Theatre Collective; and “War of the Worlds”, Ioco Players.

Larry Doan - Father Murphy

Larry has enjoyed performing with "Naked Stage” so much that he has returned for the fourth time. He is celebrating 40 years since he first bravely stepped onto the stage as part of the chorus for My Fair Lady with GVOS in 1986!! Since then he has performed with many companies throughout the lower mainland, most recently in the role of Mr. Lawrence in "Little Women the Musical" with White Rock Players in 2025. Larry hopes you enjoy this lively discussion between opposing theists as much as he enjoys being stuck in the middle of it!!

You can still view our first on-line presentation, The Velveteen Rabbit

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