About a year ago in Toronto, I bumped into a old friend I had graduated from UBC with, Nick Rice. I remarked that it was a shame that in the 34 years we had both been in the Acting Business, we had never shared a show together. I asked him, what play he would love to do if given the luxury of choosing. Without missing a beat he said, The Sunshine Boys. I was surprised by his choice, assuming he would have chosen something from Contemporary American, Canadian or British theatre by Harold Pinter or Michel Tremblay or Allan Bennet. But he chose Neil Simon's classic comedy about a couple of Old Vaudeville Kings. He said, "Nicky, Harry Nelken and I have always wanted to perform those two roles in that funny play." Chemainus Theatre gave us the nod and here we all are. There is nothing like the Good Medicine of Laughter. I love hearing it in life, I love hearing it in the audience and I certainly love creating it with this cast of Funny People.

Many thanks to our fine Designers - Set, Costume, Sound and Lighting experts who carry us back so skillfully to 1972.

Biography

Nicola graduated from the UBC Theatre Program in the 1970s and went to school with some of Canada's finest Actors, Designers and Directors who are still creating for Canadian Theatres across the country. She has worked on New York's Broadway, for the Shaw Festival for several seasons, been invited to the Stratford Festival and enjoyed working for Montreal's Centaur Theatre, Edmonton's Citadel, Calgary's ATP and Theatre Calgary, Victoria's Belfry, and Toronto's Canadian Stage. Nicola has just returned from Ottawa's National Arts Centre where she performed in the Canadian Premiere of Mrs Dexter and her Daily, written by Joanna McLelland Glass.

Nicola has directed Mousetrap for the Arts Club Theatre, Garage Sale for the Belfry Theatre, The Laramie Project for UBC and Candida and Having Hope at Home for Chemainus Theatre Festival.

Nicola has also written It's Snowing on Saltspring, Blowin' on Bowen, and is presently working on a new project Falling Through the Cracks. Two other plays in the works are; The Boy Who Wanted to Sew, Him and Her and Dogface, and a children's book entitled, CHANCE'S Second Chance. Nicola lives half the year in Qualicum where she enjoys the woods around the Little Qualicum River.