The Woodcutter

a play by Don Hannah

About the Production

Matchstick Theatre presented Don Hannah’s The Woodcutter at the Bus Stop Theatre from July 11th-15th, 2018.

A scruffy, exhausted man is lost in the woods at nightfall with only a few sentimental objects in his pockets. Alone in a clearing, he unloads his thoughts to the surrounding wilderness, ranting and raging, unraveling a story of a troubled past and of the family he adores, eventually coming to terms with the impossible truth of what he’s done.

Poster Design by Colleen Arcturus MacIsaac
Photography by Samm Fisher (Samm Fisher Photography)

The team

Ted – Sébastien Labelle

 

Director – Jake Planinc

Stage Manager – Chelsea Dickie

Producer – Alex Mills

Lighting Designer – Alison Crosby

Sound Designer – Jordan Palmer

Set Designer – Wesley Babcock

 

Poster Design by Colleen Arcturus MacIsaac

Photography by Samm Fisher (Samm Fisher Photography)

some moments

Recognition

2019 Merritt Award Nominee  –  Outstanding Production by a New or Emerging Company, 2019
2019 Merritt Award Nominee  –  Outstanding Scenic Design,  Wesley Babcock

About

Don Hannah

Don Hannah is an award winning playwright and novelist. His pair of one person shows, The Cave Painter & The Woodcutter, are published by Playwrights Canada Press, and Cave Painter received the 2012 Carol Bolt Award. He was the inaugural Lee Playwright in Residence at the University of Alberta where he wrote While We’re Young, which has been produced across the country. He has also had residencies at Tarragon Theatre, Canadian Stage, UBC’s Green College, UNB, the Yukon Public Library, and is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony. He has worked as a dramaturge at Playwrights Theatre Centre, the Banff Playwrights Colony, and Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre, of which he is a founding member and honourary lifetime member. His books include Shoreline, a collection of his plays, and the novels, The Wise and Foolish Virgins, and Ragged Islands, both published by Knopf. Ragged Islands was awarded the Thomas H. Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. His play Resident Aliens, was produced by Theatre New Brunswick in the spring of 2023. In the fall of 2024 TNB will also be producing his project: Greetings: One Hundred Years of Family Life — birthdays, funerals, wars, and feuds; engagements, breakups, elopements, elections, school days, and holidays; tears, queers, debts, and secrets; I love yous, I hate yous… and all the news in between — in Twelve Letters.

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