Bed and Breakfast, a homegrown comedy about a gay couple who opt for the service industry out in the sticks, puts up its Vacancies sign at Centaur Theatre nextweek after a successful run at the Thousand Islands Playhouse. Played out on a bare stage with just two actors clocking up more than20characters between them, the show seems to have connected with its original tourist town audience, among whom was Centaur director Roy Surette, who immediately snapped up the show. The storys fast-paced scenes and actors versatility keep spectators engaged and highly entertained, enthuses Surette in the newsrelease. Its a sweet story with important messages about diversity and acceptance. Bed and Breakfast is the brainchild of Toronto-based actor-playwright Mark Crawford, who online first got the idea for the show while touring similar areas to the one depicted in the play. The town could be anywhere, really, he explains over coffee before the days rehearsals. We premiered the play in Gananoque, which ticks all those boxes, but there are a lot of towns that tick those boxes in Ontario places with the one cool coffee shop, the antique shops and so on. I was really inspired by the audiences who live there. I would hear these stories about people making the move from urban centres to those kinds of small towns, especially gay couples. I saw potential for comedies in there, but also for telling a really honest story about what that would be like. Joining Crawford for the interview is his life partner, Paul Dunn, who originated the role of Drew in 2015, opposite Andrew Kushnir.
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