Theatre/Film

The Riversmead Affair (Part 3)
I'll Be Seeing You

Back by popular demand is the Riversmead Affair, the continuing story of the Maxwell Clarke family. Held in the historic home in Hudson, it is the fall of 1944 and Charlotte, Linda Maxwell Clarke’s grand-daughter, has just arrived from her wedding reception at St Mary’s church hall. She is at Riversmead to change before joining her husband and leaving on their honeymoon. A house full of guests has assembled and there is much frivolity and activity. However, there are some new faces and lots of intrigue.

Join the party and find out what all the panic is about. Move through four of Riversmead’s rooms, the historic bed and breakfast, and see a very unique theatre experience. You will spend twenty minutes in each room and have a window into the lives of a Hudson family in wartime. You do not need to have seen the other episodes to enjoy part three.

After the performances relax in the dining room and discuss the outcome while savoring tea, coffee and dessert, which are all included in the price.

The Last Station

This year, as part of StoryFest 2010, The Last Station starring Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, and James McAvoy will be presented at the Hudson Village Theatre on November 1st at 7:30 p.m.

Synopsis:

After almost fifty years of marriage, the Countess Sofya (Helen Mirren), Leo Tolstoy’s (Christopher Plummer) devoted wife, passionate lover, muse and secretary—she’s copied out War and Peace six times…by hand!—suddenly finds her entire world turned upside down. In the name of his newly created religion, the great Russian novelist has renounced his noble title, his property and even his family in favor of poverty, vegetarianism and even celibacy. After she’s born him thirteen children!

When Sofya then discovers that Tolstoy’s trusted disciple, Chertkov (Paul Giamatti)—whom she despises—may have secretly convinced her husband to sign a new will, leaving the rights to his iconic novels to the Russian people rather than his very own family, she is consumed by righteous outrage. This is the last straw. Using every bit of cunning, every trick of seduction in her considerable arsenal, she fights fiercely for what she believes is rightfully hers. The more extreme her behavior becomes, however, the more easily Chertkov is able to persuade Tolstoy of the damage she will do to his glorious legacy.

Into this minefield wanders Tolstoy’s worshipful new assistant, the young, gullible Valentin (James McAvoy). In no time, he becomes a pawn, first of the scheming Chertkov and then of the wounded, vengeful Sofya as each plots to undermine the other’s gains. Complicating Valentin’s life even further is the overwhelming passion he feels for the beautiful, spirited Masha (Kerry Condon), a free thinking adherent of Tolstoy’s new religion whose unconventional attitudes about sex and love both compel and confuse him. Infatuated with Tolstoy’s notions of ideal love, but mystified by the Tolstoys’ rich and turbulent marriage, Valentin is ill equipped to deal with the complications of love in the real world.

A tale of two romances, one beginning, one near its end, The Last Station is a complex, funny, rich and emotional story about the difficulty of living with love and the impossibility of living without it.

Tickets are $10 and are available at The Greenwood Centre (450-458-5396) and A Temps Perdu

This event is also included in the 2010 Festival Pass.