“Four in the Crib”

Northern Sabbatical Productions brings back its aged-to-perfection comedy, June 3-9, 2013. Four in the Crib interweaves the lives of four eighty-somethings in an assisted living facility, shared over a series of weekly cribbage games. This show had great audiences and wonderful reviews at the 2012 Edmonton Fringe Festival and is back by popular demand in honour of Seniors’ Week and the Creative Age Festival.

Playwright Linda Wood Edwards comes by her understanding of the subject matter honestly. While helping her mother Ethel Wood settle into such a facility here in Edmonton, Wood Edwards started to observe the struggles and routines of life there. We are accustomed to thinking of life in such places as either dreary or dull, but Wood Edwards found the residents – joyful or depressed, passive or fiercely fighting for every scrap of independence – made for compelling stories.

In Four in the Crib, Wood Edwards reminds us that people are just as quirky, hilarious, and passionate at eighty as at eighteen. Probably more so. The play packs death, romance, dark secrets, and bodily function jokes into a solid hour-and-a-bit of comedy.

Four in the Crib runs June 4,5,6,8 and 9 at 7:00PM in the (fully accessible) lower hall of Holy Trinity Anglican Church (10037 84 Avenue). Tickets are $15 a person, available through TIX on the Square (780.420.1757 or TIX on the Square). Service charges apply.

 “Four in the Crib is time well spent” — Global TV

“With the witty and original dialogue provided by Linda Wood Edwards script, the play is ultimately light-hearted and definitely laugh out loud” – Vue Weekly 

“If there’s a comic nugget to be mined at an assisted living facility expect writer Linda Wood Edwards to find it here” — Edmonton Journal