Nowhere, Ontario

A play about identity and loss by Kathleen Cleland Moyer.  Music composed and arranged by Daniel J. Kruger.
​Performed at the Honey House (Backyard Theatre venue) in 2012 and the Conrad Centre for the Performing Arts in  Kitchener in 2013.

The year is 1916 at the height of World War 1. Canada and the rest of the world are embroiled in one of the bloodiest wars in history and there seems to be no end in sight. Young Canadian men are dying in France at an alarming rate.  Berlin, Ontario has suddenly become a national target of an increasingly violent campaign to wipe the name Berlin (and all things German-Canadian) from memory. Neighbours and friends who have lived and worked side by side for years as Canadians are now  divided into two camps: "English" and "German".  And Germans are the Enemy. 

REVIEWS

"I was amazed at how you could have me tearing up one minute, then laughing the next."

"It captured a piece of our past, nearly a hundred years old, which should never be lost. The story is sensitive, charming, moving, believable, and totally engaging."

"Congratulations on producing a spectacular, fun and inspirational show!! The acting and musical talent was simply incredible, the setting was excellent and the atmosphere was electric!!"

"The play speaks very well to the turmoil and agony that so many went through – ably accomplished with sensitivity and well placed humour and comic relief to build a picture of that time for the audience. This is a subject not commonly dealt with in the history of the Region, and it is a story that needs to be told.” 

"Congratulations on a successful first performance of a powerful play. I was impressed with the acting and amazed at all the staging and music and how this all came together . . . worthy of any great stage."

"Congratulations on a remount of this wonderful play. After I saw it, I dug up my old research on 1916 and began a file on the recruiting story . . . I think it’s perhaps the most defining year in Berlin/Kitchener’s history.”