Slings and Arrows Season Three

The Burbage Theatre Company's resident Artistic Ghost, Oliver Welles (Stephen Ouimette) foretells Season Three of Slings and Arrows and Television Yet to Come.

I have heard Season Three is the stuff that dreams are made of.

Yes, William Hutt plays an older actor (Charles Kingsman) whose dying of cancer whose also a heroin addict.

It's fantastic - such a great character - you get shades of (Hutt's Stratford play and film performance from) Long Day's Journey into Night plus Bill's (King) Lear has never been filmed.

So you obviously you can't see the whole production but you get to see bits of Bill's Hutt's Lear.

It is great for posterity as well -great fun to do.

And the show is a critical darling outside of Canada!

Oh yeah - we are on the Sundance ( Channel ) and we have been really well received in the States.

The New York Times reviewed it very favorably and we were on the cover of the New York Times TV supplement which was fantastic.

If you are doing King Lear, who is playing Cordelia?

Sarah Polley is playing Cordelia to Hutt's Lear, and is cast member (Frank's) Michael Polley's daughter.

What do you think of the recent cancellations of acclaimed Canadian TV series Da Vinci's City Hall and This is Wonderland?

I don't know where we are headed.

If they just think we are going to import American series for us to watch, we have to produce our own and these shows were very successful so I just don't understand it.

It's fortunate Slings and Arrows was not on CBC.

There are bunch of new series coming up and they are either for Showcase or The Movie Network and you think maybe the networks have to get a little more brave. But there is no reason why one of those networks couldn't have produced Slings and Arrows and they chose not to. There is all kinds of stuff coming and if they don't get busy and get behind it, they are going to get left out.