The Stage That Made Us is a full-length play commissioned by the Empress Theatre, Fort MacLeod Alberta, in celebration of the theatre’s 100th anniversary. The play will premiere at the Empress on June 29, 2012, exactly 100 years to the day from when the Empress first opened its doors in 1912.

The Stage That Made Us is a fictional story that incorporates some of the real history of the Empress and Fort Macleod from the period 1912 up to around 1936. It’s about a couple of kids—a cowboy drifter and Opera affectionado—who meet and fall in love at the Empress, and how the theatre and their lives influence one another over the next twenty-five years.

The play features comedy, music, wrestling, and vaudeville.

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