Live Bait Theatre is a professional theatre company based in Sackville, New Brunswick, in Canada. Established in 1988, it continues to have a vested interest in supporting and encouraging both up-and-coming and well-known Maritime actors and playwrights. The writer Arthur Motyer was the founding chair.
Notable performers at Live Bait have included Rita MacNeil, Blakie and the Rodeo Kings, This Hour Has 22 Minutes' Cathy Jones, Lorne Elliot, and the Barra-MacNeils, among others.
In more than twenty years, the company has also produced over forty-five mainstage shows, along with a score of Atlantic-themed dinner theatres, musical revues, and other performance events and playwriting/reading workshops.
To celebrate its 20th year in operation, the Artistic Director Karen Valanne planned a gala revue for the summer of 2008, which coincided with the publication of book of memories and reminiscences by Charlie Rhindress and Sandy Burnett.
Playwrights whose works have been performed by the company include:
- Mark Blagrave
- Don Hannah
- Jan Kudelka
- Jenny Munday
- Charlie Rhindress
- Pete Soucy
Famous quotes containing the words live, bait and/or theatre:
“We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.”
—Erich Fromm (1900–1980)
“The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one’s appetite is not too keen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“People fall out of windows, trees tumble down,
Summer is changed to winter, the young grow old
The air is full of children, statues, roofs
And snow. The theatre is spinning round,
Colliding with deaf-mute churches and optical trains.
The most massive sopranos are singing songs of scales.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)