• share the 'Cinderella' tale of a fighting bull terrier in 1920s' Montreal
• meet the vivaciously eccentric widow of the aristocrat who led the last great cavalry charge in British history
• explore the upside of human fallibility in a fun contemporary comedy
• enter into a musical reverie with the muses of James Joyce
• find your way to Canada with a gentle soul tossed about by the turmoil of war
• spend an evening with an American folklorist in Japan
• conjure up the sprites of Shakespeare's magical Twelfth Night

  Adeline

Memoirs of Adeline DeHorsey, second wife of James Brudenell, Lord Cardigan. Cast of 3 in two acts.

  Take Twelve

Full length musical comedy in 2 acts based on Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”. "Two of the songs are so good they belong on Broadway" Daily News"

  A Single Green Leaf

The last traveling Chautauqua, it's 1938 season in the town of Red Moose, Saskatchewan, with a very special guest: Grey Owl. Two Acts.

  Early Bloom

A Musical voyage in one act. James Joyce on his path to “Ulysses”. “..a tour e force that stretches the boundary of fringe theatre .......

  Tales from a Tokyo Veranda

One Act musical play of Lafcadio Hearn, an American writer who lived in Japan at the turn of the century and translated traditional Japanese folk-tales. "It was a wonderful show & I have had the songs in my head all weekend” Ottawa School of Speech and Drama."

  South of Peoria

Full length musical legend based on the memoirs of Anne Lindbergh

  The Thief of Cairo

Full length musical drama based on Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mafouzs "The Thief & the Dogs"

  Floor 27

A celebration of humanity’s enduring inability to stick to the plan, and the folly of expecting that we will.

  Hans

A merry go-round of the German army, a Russian & Canadian lumber camp, and finally a job as a janitor in a seedy Vancouver otel. Approx 1hr 15mins "...he (Arnold) is able to express Hans’ indomitable cheer and hopefulness as much with the various tunes as Mr. Paterson is able to with his script" Elissa Bernard Chronicle Herald

  The Wyndham Kid

A full length musical based on ‘Bar sinister” by Richard Harding Davis. The "Cinderella" tale of "The Kid". a bull terrier

CHORAL REFLECTIONS

Works of inspiration and faith, our choral reflections bring elements of musical theatre, including characterisation and narrative development, to the traditional cantata. Each is written for soprano, alto, tenor and bass singing parts, and readers. Scores are melodic and evocative. Words are apt and contemporary. They are intended for performance in any choral content.

  Winds of love

Our Christmas choral reflection has at its fulcrum Mary’s Magnificat. It opens with the nation’s yearning for a Messiah and concludes with Jesus’ call to a new way of being. Readings include passages from John Gay and William Shakespeare, as well as Scripture.

  Call to Joy

Our Easter Choral Reflection (In progress) opens with the simultaneous arrival in Jerusalem for the passover, of Roman troops to police the crowd on one side and Jesus' entry on the other. It goes beyond the resurrection to a call to us all from grieving into the fullness of life through faith.

"If that doesn't proclaim your faith, I don't know what will." commented Rev. Anne Dalziel Singer, United Church, following an Easter presentation of 3 excerpts, "Confessional" "In the long light of the morning" and "Hosannah!"