GIBSON & SONS

GIBSON & SONS
by Kristen da Silva
January 8-30, 2027
Directed by Jennifer Monteith
Producers: Bridget Jankowski, Nick Munaretto

"Village Players" "Bloor West Village Players" "Village Playhouse" "Runnymede theatre" theatre theater "community theatre" "2026-27" “Gibson & Sons” “Kristen da Silva” “Jennifer Monteith”

About the play:
Helping his father run the family business (a struggling small-town funeral home) has gotten in the way of Harry Gibson’s’ love life. Missing his recently departed mother, and hungry for companionship and the chance at having a family of his own, he secretly turns to an unconventional method of meeting a woman: an online Russian bride service. When his bride Katya, along with her acerbic older sister Eva, arrive on Canadian soil, the sisters are plunged into culture shock while the Gibson family is thrown into a tailspin

About Kristen Da Silva, the playwright

Kristen Da Silva is a playwright, actor and director born in Oakville and raised in Nobleton, Ontario. Prior to diving into playwriting and acting full-time Kristen spent the first part of her working life in the corporate world. Home on maternity leave with her youngest son, and feeling a need for some intellectual stimulation, she wrote her first full-length romantic comedy Book Club. Other plays were soon to follow including Gibson & Sons and Hurry Hard both winners of the Playwrights Guild of Canada Comedy Award. Other plays are Where You Are, Beyond the Sea, Sugar Road, The Rules of Playing Risk and By the Light of a Story, which have been produced across Canada, in the U.S and Europe. She is a graduate of York University where she was a founding member of the Vanier Improv Company and company member of Vanier College Productions.

About Jennifer Monteith, the director

Jennifer Monteith is a multifaceted creator, and an active member in the Toronto theatre scene. For the Village Players, she co-directed On the Air (2026), directed The Book of Will (2024), and Murder Weapon (2019) and was a board member until 2021. You may have seen her on the Village stage in The Fighting Days (Chorus), Anybody for Murder (Mary Ticklewell), Lady Windermere’s Fan (Mrs. Erlynne) or An Ideal Husband (Lady Gertrude Chiltern). Jennifer has also produced, stage managed and created costumes, props, hair, set design and show photography for a variety of Village shows. Jennifer studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art [England] and during the day successfully pretends to be a banker.