By Lindsay Price
"A riveting performance" - The Winnipeg Free Press
Ken Leishman (a.k.a. THE FLYING BANDIT) robbed banks, hot-wired planes, staged stunning jail breaks and stole $400,000 worth of gold from the Winnipeg International Airport in 1966 - the largest gold heist in Canadian history. The public adored him for his three-piece suit and smile. At one point, the gentleman bandit was on the front page of every paper in Canada, coast to coast. Now this fascinating figure is largely forgotten.
Playwright Lindsay Price and Actor Craig Mason bring Leishman to life and to the stage in THE FLYING BANDIT at the Showboat Festival Theatre in Port Colborne. Mr. Mason plays over 25 roles in this all-Canadian tour-de-force.
Both Mr. Mason and Mrs. Price are new Niagara region residents, loving every second in Crystal Beach.
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The Flying Bandit at The Showboat Festival
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296 Fielden Avenue, Port Colborne, ON
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About the Artists
 Craig Mason |
Craig is thrilled to be revisiting The Flying Bandit. He was last seen at Showboat as Donnie in The Foursome. Other credits include: Sterling Mimms in Jasper Station (Lighthouse Festival, Theatre Aquarius, Theatre on the Grand, Thousand Islands Playhouse), Gal in Corker (Theatre North West), Barney Cashman in Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Georgian Theatre Festival), Vinnie in Oscar and Felix: A New Look at the Odd Couple (Victoria Playhouse), Eldon Currie in The Perils of Persephone (Theatre Orangeville), George Brunt in Who's Under Where?, and Richard Willey in Out of Order (Sunshine Festival). TV credits include This is Wonderland and Queer as Folk. |
 Lindsay Price |
Lindsay is currently the primary writer for her company Theatrefolk, an independent publisher of original and adapted scripts for High Schools. Her play Shattered was performed by Theatre Unbound in Minneapolis, MN. She received the Gregory Millard Playwriting Award from TADA! Youth Theatre where her play Flaky Lips was chosen to participate in the Best of 15 Years Staged Reading Series. Appliance was performed in Denver, Colorado by the And Toto Too Theatre Company, and Paper Thin was published by Samuel French in Ten Minute Plays: Vol. 6 From the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Lindsay's play Tuna Fish Eulogy has enjoyed great festival success for the Riverside Players sweeping the awards at the 2005 Leverhulme Drama Festival, the North-West Divisional Finals, the Northern Area Finals, All England Festival and came 2nd overall at the National Drama Festivals Association 32nd British All-Winners Festival. Selected Highlights: Thicker Than Water, semi-finalist for the Eugene O'Neil Playwrights Conference; The Merrie Christmas Show, (Stage West, Toronto); The Tempest (Comedia Zuppa, St. Petersburg, Florida); Paper Thin (Collaboraction Theatre, Chicago, KW Theatre, Kitchener); Liver for Breakfast, (Cabbagetown Theatre, Toronto; StageRight Theatre, New York). Pancake Tuesday, (Samuel French One Act Play Festival, New York; Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto; Brass Tacks Theatre Co, Astoria, NY; Newton Theatre; Newton, Australia) Upcoming, Shattered will be produced by Constellation Theatre in England. Lindsay is a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada, the Dramatists Guild of America and the American Association of Theatre Educators. |