Studio Babette Puppet Theatre presents: Pulcinella, il Cameriere (the Waiter): Friday, August 13. 
10:30pm – 11:00pm. After the Art Bus, free for Art Bus patrons, all others PWYC (Pay What You Can)
A Commedia dell’Arte style puppet show for adults. This zany, constantly evolving half-hour puppet play is the perfect way to end an evening of Art Crawl. www.studiobabette.ca
THE DRAKE EQUATION: Waiting for the Go. A play by Joe Vermeulen. $15 in advance, $20 at the door.
When you’re alone in the universe… who do you talk to? And who talks back?
This is a powerful and deeply moving play about what could happen to you if you had nothing left… Victoria is at the end of her life, sitting on train tracks, wanting to die. That’s where the story begins. Her mind makes a last ditch effort to fight for life, taking her on a journey into her past and into the minds of her boyfriend, who has just committed suicide, and her best friends.
This play is by youth, for youth, but the real message is for the rest of us who want to gain insight into what teenagers today struggle with; want to hear what they’re dying to tell us. It is also a moving, intimate story about love; how someone can love another enough to die for them. How it’s possible to love another so much that we can’t let them go, how we deal with the loss, what it means for life?
8 PERFORMANCES ONLY 
Thur, Fri, Sat: May 27-29 at 8pm
Matinee: Sun May 30 at 2:30 pm
Thur, Fri, Sat: June 3-5 at 8 pm
Matinee: Sun June 6th at 2:30 pm
Call 905 524 0606 for reservations
Vinx in Concert: Saturday, May 8 at 8:00pm $20 at the door. DJ and Host Michael Williams and The Pearl 
Company present the much-anticipated return visit of Vinx to Hamilton! Opening Artist: Queen Cee and her band: Queen Cee is a potent Hamilton singer-songwriter who can provide solace and peace from a crazy world with her warm voice and conscious message. Her musical stylings are that of smooth R&B/Soul with a Hip Hop edge. Not only does she pack a voice and positive energy that she wants to share with the world, she is out there making a difference in her community with social initiatives such as When Sistahs Get Together and the Be-you-tiful Girls Club. www.myspace.com/queenceemusic
Queen Cee video :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9feYe-qbr0M
Vinx is/has been a Percussionist/ Vocalist with Sting, Bonnie Raitt, Herbie Hancock and Stevie Wonder. “For 
any who does not know his music, take heart. Your life is about to improve. Perhaps you have never heard creativity so beautifully arranged, or imagined that the human voice could be bass, saxophone and trumpet in the same mouth. Listen and receive the gift. As he takes the mike, he begins to record layers of harmony…. All praise the power of spontaneous creation fueled by the love of an audience.” ”He sings lead with or without drum! When in the mood, he will capture his own lead vocals in order to sing harmony – fabulous! He is also a very entertaining and humorous stage presence!”
“The Storyteller’s Tale”: Saturday March 20. 7:30 pm. $15 at the door. Freefall Writing Workshops (www.freefallwriting.com) and The Pearl Company present British storyteller Geoff Mead with Canadian musician Jaron Freeman-Fox (violinist and Indian music aficionado) one week prior to their featured performance at the Toronto Storytelling Festival. Join us to celebrate World Storytelling Day with this never-to-be-forgotten evening of enchantment. The Storyteller’s Tale is a stirring tale of banditry, betrayal, unlikely friendship, storytelling and dangerous love set in 18th century India. A storyteller and the beautiful young wife of a cruel and powerful warlord exchange stories as they meet, fall in love and part. Based on the novella The Storyteller’s Tale by Omair Ahmad. This 2-hour performance marks the story’s Canadian Premiere. All proceeds donated to Indian charities, by arrangement with the author. Celebrated in the UK as a master storyteller, Geoff Mead performs traditional stories, runs story-based workshops and teaches storytelling in the UK, Spain, Canada and Japan. Reserve your seat. Reception to follow.
Carmen…?: Playing January 8 and 9, 15 and 16, 2010 at 8:00. Tickets $15. A tragic-comedy dance theatre presentation based on Bizet’s Carmen. Sergiy Shvydkyy, an internationally renowned avant-garde dancer, mime-actor, choreographer, and leading figure in contemporary performance arts in the Ukraine brings his unique choreographic vision, to The Pearl Company. He does this with a fresh imagining of the famous story of love and betrayal, Carmen, unique in both its dance style and its interpretation of the tale. Emanuela Dussin, a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, brings the fire and beauty of flamenco to the stage. And then, of course, Gary Santucci has found himself willingly drawn into Shvydkyy‘s world where the musician not only performs the music but is a character within the production. Not the same old Carmen! Time has changed her, you will love her more than ever? Reserve your seat! Call 905-524-0606. (more…)
Shadow Puppet Theatre: Sunday, October 25. Doors open at 2:00; show at 2:30; $10 at the door. More Halloween entertainment… The puppets will perform Macbeth and they will definitely bring the witches. Shadow Puppets are excellent at portraying ghosts, witches and other supernatural elements…. The Shadow Puppet Theatre has performed for audiences in the Waterloo region and in the Ottawa area; they go where humans dare not. This is an afternoon for both children and adults. The afternoon will finish with excerpts from the first shadow puppet full length film (1929) Prince Achmed by Lotte Reiniger.
Festitalia@La Perla (The Pearl Company)
Commedia dell’arte: Pulcinella, il Cameriere (Pulcinella, the Waiter) Presented by Studio Babette Puppet Theatre – inspired by commedia dell’arte, using hand puppets and the traditional puppet booth. There will also be storytelling and puppet-making (wooden spoon puppets).
Sunday September 27 at 2:30 pm
Monday- Wednesday, September 28 to 30 at 7:00 pm
Tickets: $10 adults, $9 grandparents, $5 children, $20 family
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The Shadow Puppet Theatre, from Kitchener, present an evening for both children and adults with a workshop focusing on examples and demonstrations of traditional and shadow puppetry. You are invited to participate in the workshop, check out the puppets and the puppet theatre and even make a shadow puppet. Saturday July 25, 7:30. $10 at the door. http://www.shadowpuppettheatre.com/
A reading of Inna di Wardrobe, a new play by playwright Deirdre (D-lishus) Walton. Fri June 19 at 8 pm, at The Pearl, 16 Steven Street, part of Pride Week. ”An entertaining seriocomic treatment of a universal message regarding family, loyalty and same-sex love.” Walton finds that “queer stories within Jamaican culture can provide a powerful theatrical experience for anyone caught in the space between the culture they left behind and the one they have joined.”
Artword Theatre presents “Theatre +”, a theatrical double-bill based on two fascinating texts. Saturday May 23 at 8:00 pm $10 at the door.
at The Pearl Company, 16 Steven Street.
#1: “One Night, the Rain”, a theatrical adaptation created and performed by actress Aktina Stathaki and pianist Jerome Simeon based on a short story “Maria dos Prazeres” by G.G. Marquez. Maria, a 70-year-old prostitute, is haunted by a dream that she is going to die soon, until one night… Chorus: Paula Grove, Valeri Kay, Tanis MacArthur.
#2: “Langston Hughes vs Joe McCarthy”. Is poetry subversive? In 1953 U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy thought so. Directed by Ronald Weihs, this reading is based on testimony from the US Committee hearing and the poems of renowned Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes. Performed by the Artword Theatre Ensemble. A remount of Artword’s Black History month presentation.
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Artword Theatre’s fourth show in its 2008-2009 Hamilton season. Tobacco Troubadour, a new play about growing up in tobacco country and its lively dance hall scene, based on the songs of J.P. Riemens, with script and direction by Ronald Weihs, design by Judith Sandiford. Runs April 15 to 26, 2009. Performed by the Artword Theatre Ensemble: Paula Grove, Tanis MacArthur, Gordon Odegaard, Ryan Sero. Music performed J.P. Riemens & The Barflies: (J.P. Riemens on vocals and guitar, Carrie Ashworth on string bass, Linda Duemo on drums and Brian Griffith on lead guitar) (more…)
Artword Theatre’s third play in its 2008-2009 season at The Pearl — Sunamabeach, a new show by Charly Chiarelli. March 25 to April 5, 2009, Wed to Sat at 8 pm, Sun at 3 pm. Wed $10, Thur-Sun reg $20, std/sen $15. Tickets 905-548-0341. An irreverent look at Hamilton through the eyes of Charly Chiarelli, who grew up in the Sicilian North End. Charly comes back and finds that life is a “sunamabeach”. (more…)
Hammertheatre presents Sky Gilbert’s Steven and Chris Design your Mind, Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 8:30 pm at The Pearl Company, 16 Steven St. Starring Sky Gilbert and Keith Cole, directed by Ed Roy. A Pay-What-You-Can workshop. Tickets at the door on a first-come first-served basis. Tired of those irritating gay guys on TV telling you where to put your couch?
Conceive and develop a play with playwright Kevin Land at The Pearl Company.
Sunday March 1, 12-4 pm. The cost is $15 and limited to 20 participants. The proceeds are a fundraiser for The Pearl. Call 905-524-0606 to reserve.
Kevin’s workshop will move from a discussion of the nature of the theatrical experience to the creation of a play idea and development of it by the group.
Artword Theatre’s new theatrical entertainment, Rascals and Numskulls, is coming February 12 to 22, 2009
Being the thrilling adventures of Robert Land, spy for the British in the American Revolution, friend of Mohawk leader Joseph Brant, United Empire Loyalist, first white settler in Hamilton (more…)
