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Artscene A R T F U N A T T H E G A L 31 | Wednesday, March 20, 2013 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com "Connected to your Community" L E R Y Oakville Galleries held a March Break camp all last week at its Gairloch Gardens location. Pictured here are students participating in their creative activities on Friday morning, clockwise from top left: Emlyn Macintosh, 6, dons her helmet; Nourdeya Assaf, 7, shows off her wand; and Valentina and Valeria Emerson, both 8, and Laura Cott, 8, put on a show with shadow puppets. photos by Nikki Wesley ­ Oakville Beaver (Follow on Twitter @halton_photog) The Oakville Players bring Wife After Death to stage by Dominik Kurek Oakville Beaver Staff It may be all jokes and laughs, but through it all, a play put on by The Oakville Players questions whether we really know the people we think we know. The local community theatre group is staging Wife After Death, written by British comedy writer Eric Chappell, at The Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts. The play opens on Thursday (March 21). "It's a comedy. It tries to stay away from too many messages other than the idea of do we really ever know anyone?" said director Bernard Pointet, who is also president of the theatre group. It's a comedy. It tries to stay away from too many messages other than the idea of do we really ever know anyone? Wife After Death director Bernard Pointet "You become friends with people. You know them very long and it's only perhaps later that you find out, `Oh, I had no idea that person had done this or done the other thing.' Maybe people have done great charitable work in their lives but were very quiet about it. It's that idea of perception and how we remember people." Wife After Death is set at both the funeral and the scattering of ashes of David Thursby, a prominent comedian and national television treasure. The funeral is held in the home of David's grieving widow, Laura Thursby, as is common practice in the U.K. "It's a high society-type affair," Pointet said. see How on p.32