Production History
...a highly entertaining property...audiences are
giving standing ovations to Beattie's tour de force --
--Variety
On June 10, 2006, Walt Wingfield passed another milestone
in his remarkable career with a performance of Wingfield's Progress
at the Fergus Grand Theatre, Fergus ON, as part of three-day fund raiser for
the Reminessence Festival. It was Rod Beattie's
3,500th performance of a Wingfield play in a little over
twenty years.
From the Orange Hall in Rosemont, Ontario,
(August, 1984) to Fergus (June, 2006), with official
openings at the McManus Studio Theatre in London, ON (Letter
From Wingfield Farm in 1985), The Arbor Theatre in Peterborough
(Wingfield's Progress in 1987), the Belfry Theatre in
Victoria, BC (Wingfield's Folly in 1990 and Wingfield Unbound in 1997),
and the Stratford Festival (Wingfield On Ice in 2001 and Wingfield's Inferno
in 2005) Walt and Rod have delighted capacity audiences across Canada in most major regional
theatres, including the Vancouver Playhouse, Edmonton's Citadel,
Theatre Calgary, the Globe in Regina, the Manitoba Theatre Centre in Winnipeg,
the Grand in London, the Stratford Festival, the Royal Alexandra Theatre and Canadian Stage
Company in Toronto, Theatre New Brunswick and the Neptune in Halifax, as well as hundreds of
smaller venues.
They've also taken part in seasons at Cincinnati's Playhouse in the Park and
the Asolo Theater in Sarasota, Florida. The first three Wingfield plays were broadcast
on CBC Radio's Morningside, a TV version of Letter From Wingfield Farm (produced by
Primedia Productions) won the 1991 "Gemini" (Canadian TV) Award for
Best Performing Arts Program, and in November, 1998, a series of thirty
half-hour TV episodes, entitled Wingfield, produced by Norflicks Productions,
made its debut on CBC Television. Rod Beattie has won three best
actor awards for his stage performances in the Wingfield plays:
The "Sterling" in 1988 (Edmonton, Alberta), the "Dora" in 1992
(Toronto) and the "Critic's Award" in 1995 (Sarasota).