Uncle Val

Uncle ValWritten and performed by Andy Jones
Directed by Lois Brown
Previews from September 30
Opens October 1, runs to October 19, 2008

Andy Jones, as Uncle Val, is a hilariously indignant 70-year old retired fisherman, displaced from his outport home. The year is 1987, and Uncle Val is now trapped in the ‘big city’ of St. John’s. Homesick, Val struggles to figure out what life has left to offer him. Is there anything of use for a senior citizen in the suburbs to do? Is there any mystery or magic left for him to discover? Will his grandchildren survive an afternoon of his babysitting?

“Wonderful comic meditation on Newfoundland, daily life and everyone’s fear of mortality”
- The Chronicle Herald (Halifax)