Tuesday, August 21, 2012

The Bookshop: A play about love lost and found.

Marie-France Desranleau is Jane, the new owner of a haunted bookshop, and Jean-Denis Beau­doin is chocolate maker Samuel in the romantic comedy The Bookshop, onstage at Chester Playhouse today to Saturday.  (MARC SAINT-JACQUES)

The first time Carol Cassistat fell in love, he was six years old.

"I remember that feeling. It was so strong, I could not breathe when she was near me. I remember every move she did felt like a shock," muses the artistic director of Théâtre du Gros Mécano, by phone from his home in Quebec.

"I remember worrying 'She didn't say hello today.' Everything was so important."

Falling in love has no age, Cassistat says.

That's why he believes The Bookshop, the romantic comedy his company brings to the Chester Playhouse tonight to Saturday has such universal appeal.

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For more information about a wonderful romantic comedy please visit What Would Meg Do?


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