The Royal MTC Regional Tour will be in MacGregor on Wednesday, February 8th, 2023.
Tickets are available at McKelvy Agencies & the Municipal office and at the door.
Tickets are $30 adults, $25 for seniors and students.
This year’s production is Assassinating Thomson.
Assassinating Thomson is a one man play written and performed by Bruce Horak, a well-established theatre and visual artist who lost 90% of his vision after a childhood battle with cancer. In 2011 he wrote and began touring the show.
The play is named for an unsolved mystery in Canadian art history - the mysterious drowning in 1917 of Group of Seven precursor and iconic painter Tom Thomson in an Ontario Lake. The mystery takes you from the tiny community of Canoe Lake to our nation’s capital, and eventually to the world stage. Art, politics, greed, ambition, love and murder are intertwined. Tom Thomson’s story is a tangled one, but we’re in the hands of a brilliant storyteller. Bruce captures the mystery in a stunning monologue about Canadian art and artists, and during the performance he also paints a group portrait of the audience before him. At the end of the performance Bruce auctions off the painting and donates the proceeds to a charity.
