The Sidekick Players Club would like to honour all dads this Sunday.
Its last production of the season, Here On The Flight Path by Norm Foster, has been entertaining audiences since it opened last week. To celebrate Father's Day, Sidekick is offering kids of all ages an opportunity to bring their dad to the play this Sunday at no charge. You must accompany him and you must call to reserve.
Flight Path is a hilarious look at a screwed-up nerd's relationships with three attractive women. For John Cummings, living on the edge of Toronto's Pearson Airport, the coming and going of jet planes is simply a metaphor for the way life flies by. When you don't grab tomorrow by the tail, you're left on the edge of the runway, on the outskirts of life.
Cummings is a lonesome, likable man who is strung out by a failed marriage and uncertain of his macho attraction. That his aborted attempts at romance with a string of comely female neighbours turns out to alter his oh-so masculine perceptions of love, provides the serious undertow in Foster's comedy.
Foster is a male playwright who can write about women without any masculine prejudice. Here is a man (John) who can cut past our preoccupations with fast food and onenight stands. And here is a playwright who can create a troubled world in which loneliness and regret knock loudly at the door when you don't take your chance at love.
Simon Roberts plays John Cummings and is joined on the Tsawwassen Arts Centre stage by Erica Bearss, Cathie Collis and Elizabeth Griffiths.
Call 604-288-2415 to reserve your seats. Sunday's matinee starts at 2 p.m. sharp.
Here On The Flight Path runs until June 27. In addition to Sunday's matinee, performances are at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
