wake up and smell the coffee is not a re-release of the 2001 cranberries album

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

Gibsons Heritage Playhouse

Thurs 24 Feb - preview pay-what-you-can, 8:00pm

WARNING: Very coarse bleepin language & sensitive subject matter!

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee is in fact a one-man show that one of Canada's best character actors, P. Adrien Dorval is bringing to the stage at the Gibsons Heritage Playhouse over the next 3 weeks. Tonight is the preview, pay-what-you-can show so get there early to grab your seat...

Based on the critically acclaimed stage show by Eric Bogosian, this running rant of dark humor attacks some scary issues by poking fun at the fears that seem to plague society these days, while at the same time satirizing contemporary values.

Dorval will be portraying a series of characters throughout the show which include a salesman who may just be Satan, a shockingly amoral Hollywood producer and a guru with questionable motives, it seems that any and everybody is fair game for the sharp-tongued satirist - and in the post 9/11 era where paranoia runs rampant, the show provides a brutally honest but shockingly entertaining alternative to the mainstream mindset.

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee is not slapstick or a stream of jokes but it is funny and smart and brutally f*&cken angry.

Tickets are $20 and are available at Hallmark Cards (Sunnycrest Mall, Gibsons), Gaia's Fair Trade Gifts (Gibsons) & Sechelt Visitor Centre (Sechelt)

Show times:

Fri 25 Feb & Sat 26 Feb, 8:00pm

Thurs 3 Mar to Sat 5 Mar, 8:00pm

Thurs 10 Mar to Sat 12 Mar, 8:00pm

(mats 27 Feb & 6 Mar @ 2:00pm

For more information visit P. Adrien Dorval's facebook page.

Poster image is from P. Adrien Dorval's facebook page and butchered by me with the intent of showing some of the many characters in the show.

stan & bren and a double-booked hotel room

A Bedfull of Foreigners, Gibsons Heritage Playhouse

Thursday 10th to Saturday 12th February, 8:00pm

(mat Feb 12 at 2pm)

The farcical British comedy, A Bedfull of Foreigners, which was brought to stage late last year by the Peninsula Players is back by popular demand tonight through Saturday.

Set in a French hotel in a small village near the German border, holiday-makers Stanley Parker and his wife Brenda find themselves sharing a double-booked hotel room with a British businessman, his German wife…AND his French mistress!

Adding to the confusion, are a hotel porter, who may or may not have been born in Lapland and subsequently joined the Foreign Legion and a lustful German hotel manager in Renaissance costume and a strangely high singing voice.

If you've been suffering from Fawlty Towers withdrawals for the past 30 years and the repeats just haven't been enough for you, then make sure you catch A Bedfull of Foreigners. It's British slapstick comedy at its best - mistaken identities, inefficient staff, hasty cover-ups, seductions and confrontations all run rampant throughout the play which is supposedly pretty darn hilarious (if a little dated). 

Check out the Driftwood Players Facebook page for more information.