Hockey Stories for Boys – Don’t Miss This Play
Hockey Stories For Boys by George Szilagyi
Click the Hockey Stories Poster image to download the full size PDF version
Click the Hockey Stories Poster image to download the full size PDF version
A Play in Three Periods
In partnership with Arts on the Ave and Avenue Revitalization, Aarrgghh!! Productions presents a community driven live theatre experience on the Avenue of Champions.
A darkly comic Canadian Holy Grail story, Hockey Stories For Boys follows the wild and rough road trip of down-on-his-luck Neil and his erstwhile friend, reckless ne’er-do-well Darcy, two hockey loving prairie boys in a gold ‘70s station wagon with an equipment bag of weed, a box of 8-tracks, and what just might be the original Deed of Trust for The Stanley Cup. As they head for Toronto on separate, dubious quests, occupying them along the way is an old book of hockey stories called Hockey Stories For Boys, from which they try to glean the lessons and find the inspiration they need on their odyssey, and in their lives.
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The puck drops nightly at the Avenue Theatre (9030 118 Ave) from Nov. 6 – 15 at 7:30 pm. No show on Monday Nov. 9.
All seats $15.
Tickets at the door or online at http://www.avenuetheatre.ca
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Cast: Chris Bullough, Roman Pfob, George Szilagyi and Sharla Matkin
Directed by Clinton Carew
Stage Managed by Ntara Curry
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Review Highlights
“Well skated, dramatic ice, warmly rendered in a fresh new voice… Szilagyi’s script could be the next great Canadian play”
Eva Marie Clarke, SEE Magazine“…the crackle of legendary hockey trivia, passed furiously as repartee, in a swirling, foul-mouthed language woven with a kind of poetry that you might think is mock-heroic till, thanks to the play, you know better and delete the ‘mock’.”
Liz Nicholls, Edmonton Journal“With acute insights into out national obsession, I was caught up in Szilagyi’s myth-weaving dialogue”
Matthew Halliday, SEE Magazine“…the black comedy of Pulp Fiction, the mock-epic muse of Fargo and the picaresque style of The Canterbury Tales.”
Liz Nicholls, Edmonton Journal“…an effective combination of dimensional characters, vivid dreams and the nostalgic power of the lore and lure of hockey.”
Colin Maclean, Edmonton Sun“The poignant story of a man’s journey to find his way.”
Carolyn Nikodym, VUE Magazine
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