An Albertan Love Affair With Planes
Northern Sabbatical Productions and MAA & PAA Theatre join forces to tell the story of the women who stepped into ‘male’ jobs at a hundred air bases across Canada during World War 2. Never Let the Crew See You Cry focuses on the stories of Ethel Wood, mother of playwright Linda Wood Edwards.
Ethel lied about her age to get a job as a Flight Line Mechanic, and proved a natural at both the technical elements of the job and the psychological minefield of dealing with terrified student pilots from a hundred different cultures. Building on her mother’s outrageous tales, Wood Edwards has crafted vivid portraits of friendship, romance, and an emerging sense of what roles women can take on in a post-war society.
This is MAA & PAA’s sixth play focused on Albertan history. Past productions have been collected for publication by Brindle and Glass, and last year’s production, Invisible Child, received the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for new drama. Linda Wood Edwards is a Sterling-nominated playwright whose acclaimed past productions, including Four in the Crib, Support Ho’s, True Grid and Spring Alibi have toured and been produced across North America.
Never Let the Crew See You Cry features Alex D. Mackie, Judy McFerran (Sea of Green, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Les Belles Soeurs - Walterdale) and Laura Raboud. The production is directed by David Cheoros, with costumes by Geri Dittrich (Summer and Smoke, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Love of the Nightingale, The Lion in Winter, Wyrd Sisters, and many, many more - Walterdale).
Never Let the Crew See You Cry will run during the Edmonton Fringe in Venue 14, the Strathcona Branch Edmonton Public Library (8331 – 104 Street). Performances are as follows:
Sat Aug 17 - 12:15pm
Mon Aug 19 - 3:30pm
Tue Aug 20 - 2:15pm
Wed Aug 21 - 8:15pm
Fri Aug 23 - 6:45pm
Sat Aug 24 - 11:45am
Sun Aug 25 - 1:00pm
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