(Graphic: The Theatre on King)įor the first episode on Friday night, Planet 12’s Derek Weatherdon presents Rod Serling’s classic chiller “The Midnight Sun”, featuring Robyn Smith and Kelsey Gordon Powell alongside Dani Breau, Mark Hiscox, and Sorsie McQuarrie in their TTOK stage debuts. Tickets are $10 at the door or pay what you can. The more you direct and perform in it, the more you realize it’s true.” Two episodes of The Twilight Zone will be staged at The Theatre on King in downtown Peterborough on Friday, September 20th, with another two staged on Friday, October 25th, with performances at 8 p.m. ![]() Every episode deals with something we can apply to our contemporary life. “On every episode of The Twilight Zone, they were commenting on issues that never went away. “The people who love The Twilight Zone are people with inquisitive minds, people who are willing to push themselves into their own imagination, and people who could look at what things could be instead of what they aware - or on the other hand look at things as what they are instead of what they could be. On TV at that point, there was absolutely nothing thought provoking.” “The Twilight Zone is one of the most important shows in TV history,” Kelsey points out. The show would be revived multiple times on television and in film, but the original series which ran until 1964 remains to be the best remembered and most loved. Instantly popular with viewers, The Twilight Zone also became a showcase for new actors who would later become household names, as well as aging Hollywood actors finding new careers on television. Overseen by Serling, who not only appeared as narrator of the series but wrote more than half of the episodes, a team of celebrated writers including Charles Beaumont, Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, and Jerry Sohl created fantasy stories that dealt with some heavy topics rarely or never been explored on television before. Rod Serling not only appeared as the narrator of “The Twilight Zone” but wrote more than half of scripts for the episodes of the original black-and-white series, which ran from 1959 to 1964. Weaving together elements of science fiction, fantasy, and the macabre, The Twilight Zone presented a fantasy world centred solidly in reality, but with bizarre happenings and twist endings. “There are so many great scripts that would work well on stage and it’s a good way to get other artists involved.”Ĭreated by award-winning writer and TV pioneer Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone pushed the boundaries of conventional television when it made its debut in 1959. ![]() “I’ve wanted to be part of the serials for a while now, and with The Twilight Zone there are so many great ideas,” says Kelsey. Organized this year by actor Kelsey Gordon-Powell, bringing The Twilight Zone to the stage was an original, although obvious, idea. Later serials have included Young Frankenstein, The X-Files, and The 5000 Fingers of Dr. Serials at TTOK has become an important part of the theatre’s culture, with the TTOK’s genesis deriving out of their serialized presentation of Pennies From Heaven. Under the banner “The Semi-Darkness Place”, the first two episodes will be presented on Friday, September 20th, with Derek Weatherdon presenting “The Midnight Sun” and Kelsey Gordon Powell directing the fan favourite “It’s a Good Life”. Located 45 minutes from nowhere, but as close as your back yard, up the alley and through the door, The Theatre on King is entering … The Twilight Zone.Ĭontinuing an annual tradition of popular serials, this year the folks at The Theatre on King (TTOK) are recreating scripts from the classic television series The Twilight Zone. Submitted for your approval: a secret place in a familiar town, where theatrics of the past mingle with concepts of tomorrow. It is one of two episodes that will be recreated for the stage at The Theatre on King in downtown Peterborough on September 20, 2019. ![]() A scene from "The Midnight Sun", a 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone written by Rod Serling, in which two women try to cope with increasingly oppressive heat in a nearly abandoned city after Earth has been knocked out of its orbit and is slowly falling into the sun.
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