WHITEWATER REGION (Cobden) — This year, the Whitewater Region Public Library Board is trying something a little different as part of its fundraising efforts: a series of three performances called “Encounters with Great Writers”.
“The Gospel of Mark” was held last month.
The second evening, Wednesday, October 17, 7 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Cobden, will be “Maud of Leaskdale”, a one-woman play drawn from the powerful journals of Prince Edward Island novelist Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Soon after publishing Anne of Green Gables in 1908, Montgomery moved to the village of Leaskdale, Ontario with her new husband, a Presbyterian minister, and became a mother, pillar of the community, and wildly successful writer. She underwent the trials of the Great War, the death of her closest friend in the Spanish flu epidemic, and the slow descent of her husband into madness.
All of this is crammed into a riveting night of theatre starring Jennifer Carroll, the only actress to ever perform this play.
Tickets for “Maud of Leaskdale” are only $20, and are available at The Candle Wick in Cobden at Taste of the Valley on Saturday in Cobden. You may also book your tickets by calling Conrad Boyce at 613-639-9250 or e-mailing him at [email protected] .
