Perhaps we should say instead, Walt Wingfield, former big city stockbroker turned small town farmer is back.
Rod Beattie has been playing Walt, and his many neighbours, for years. He and they appear in the funny and heartwarming Wingfileld series of plays.
The now seven plays in the series are all about Walt Wingfiled who hails from the faced paced, high priced world of the metropolis of Toronto’s business and investment world.
However, Walt decides he wants to leave the pressures and fast pace lifestyle behind and become a farmer. He ends up in the fictional rural setting of Persephone Township, somewhat northwest of Toronto, although it really could be any rural setting.
Its a very very different life, peopled by Walt’s always helpful neighbours. Each of them in turn has their own quirks and colourful ways, and all try to help Walt, although with bemusement, as the newcomer tries to learn the ways of farming, and rural life.
The wonderfully entertaining, often hilarious, sometimes very touching, Wingfield series now goes back some 30 years and comprises seven one-man plays, wonderfully scripted by original creatorDan Needles, and directed by Doug Beattie.
The various plays are acted out as letters from Walt to his friend who is the editor of the Larkspur newspaper describing his many misadventures as he tries to figure out how to be a farmer, along with encounters with the colourful local residents
The Wingfield series, is one of the longest running stage productions in Canadian theatre along with other Canadian plays, Billy Bishop goes to War and the French Quebec comedy, Broue. Wingfield however is the longest running theatrical series in the country.
“Wingfield Lost and Found” is currently playing at the Globe Theatre in Regina Saskatchewan, while various other plays in the series are scheduled this year for veniues in Alberta, Ontario and Nova Scotia in coming months.
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Youtube clip of Wingfield: Lost and Found
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