Where You Are at
the Hudson Village Theatre

Kristen Da Silva’s romantic comedy is a smash hit

By Byron Toben

July 18,  2024

Hudson Village Theatre, a pleasant 45-minute drive from Montreal, once again captures the summer theatre market with a fine production of Where You Are by none other than Kristen Da Silva, who so delighted a year ago with her Beyond the Sea.

The romantic comedy is expertly directed by Ellen David, an award-winning actor herself, who last directed the Savannah Sipping Society at the Hudson five years ago.

It is set in a cottage alongside a body of water, here on Ontario’s Manitoulin Island on Lake Huron, owned by Glenda (Nadia Verrucci) and shared with her sister Suzanne (Jane Wheeler), and visited by Suzanne’s daughter Beth (Jenna Wheeler), who is also Jane’s real-life daughter.

Neighbour handyman Patrick (Matthew Fletcher), recently stood up at his wedding, pops by now and then.

The romantic comedy is expertly directed by Ellen David, an award-winning actor herself, who last directed the Savannah Sipping Society at the Hudson five years ago. I have often commented that I would always see anything involving Ms. Verrucci or Ms. David and here are both for the price of one. The play is also endorsed by prolific summer playwright Norm Foster.

Where You Are opened on July 10 and ran until July 21.

Next up at the Hudson Village Theatre on August 21 to 25 is Derek Marshall Sings Bobby Darin.

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Images: Carl Coddington

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Byron Toben, a past president of The Montreal Press Club, has been WestmountMag.ca’s theatre reviewer since July 2015. Previously, he wrote for since-terminated websites Rover Arts and Charlebois Post, print weekly The Downtowner, and print monthly The Senior Times. He also is an expert consultant on U.S. work permits for Canadians.