Posted on March 16: School of the Arts wraps up Directors Series 2004

McMaster University's School of the Arts concludes Directors's Series 2004 this week with the lives and legends of Billy the Kid and a musical version of a Grimm's brother fairy tale.
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid and The Juniper Tree will be staged this week as part of Week Four of the Directors Series.
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje, directed by Patrick Kelly, captures the lives and legends of Billy the Kid and his times. This poetic work transports the audience into the wild times and frontier morality the crimes, the loves, the lusts of men and women who lived life to the fullest. Outlaws and heroes, their gunshots and gallops still resonate in this magnificent poetry.
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid runs March 18 at 12:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. and on March 19 at 8 p.m., showing second in a double bill.
The Juniper Tree (adapted from the Grimms' Tale) by Maristella Roca, directed by Melissa Paraboo, is a musical version of a Grimm's brother fairy tale. A macabre tale in which a boy is murdered by his stepmother and fed to his father as stew, the play is a witty musical romp. Juniper, whose mother died from gorging on berries from the tree that bears his name, is left in charge of a robotic stepmother whose evil impulses come from an outer worldly trickster figure.
The Juniper Tree runs on March 18 at 8 p.m. and on March 19 at 12:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Admission is free but donations are welcome. Performances take place in McMaster's Robinson Memorial Theatre, Chester New Hall, Rm. 103.