• DECEMBER 5 - DECEMBER 21
• Thursday - Saturday 7:30pm
• Sunday 2:00pm
• Saturday Matinee 2:00pm:  12/13 and 12/20
• *Audition Times:  10/27 and 10/28, 7:00pm, 3 men, 2 women

Eugene Stickland is the author of several award winning plays and one of Canada´s most produced playwrights.  "Some Assembly Required" was nominated for the prestigious Governor General's Award and has had some fifty productions throughout Canada and the U.S.  Eugene has a new play opening in Canada this March, "Queen Lear".  He writes a regular column for the Calgary Herald and lives in Calgary with his daughter, Hanna.  He looked up Bend, Oregon on the internet and thinks it looks like a lovely place to live.

Some Assembly Required (1994), is a lighthearted but deeply moving portrayal of a dysfunctional family at Christmas.  A family of grown children and ageing parents gathers reluctantly, even accidentally, at the family home on Christmas Eve.  As the children hole up in the basement drinking eggnog, their parents retreat into their neuroses upstairs.  Each character, and the family as a whole, is crippled by guilt over the failure to live up to expectations.  The play shows how our obsession with making Christmas "the most wonderful time of the year" is precisely what makes it so unpleasant for so many people, and it continues to be popular precisely because it speaks to this common experience of the holidays.