Shane Peacock

Performed at The 4th Line Theatre, Millbrook, Ontario, July-August, 1994, telling the spectacular life of The Great Farini, a boy from Port Hope, Ontario. A veritable circus was incorporated into this outdoor production, with the great Nicky Dewhurst from Cirque du Soleil on the high-wire above the heads of the audience, and Erik Burns on the ground as the leading man. Poster by Jerrard Smith

Performed at The 4th Line Theatre, Millbrook, Ontario, August-September 2006 to a sold-out season. A young Canadian man and woman are trained to be spies at Camp X in southern Ontario during World War II. There they do something truly surreptitious – they fall in love, and hide that fact from their superiors. When they are dropped behind enemy lines, their love becomes a lethal liability. A.S.K. is a dark play about the spy-like nature…

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Performed at The 4th Line Theatre, Millbrook, Ontario, July-August, 1999; and brought back by popular demand July-August, 2000. These productions played before more than 10,000 spectators, telling the dark story of Joseph Scriven, the strange country preacher who wrote the legendary hymn “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” but never took credit for it. The play featured an on-stage baptism and a drowning in a pond.