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Nigel will be playing Creon, king of Corinth in Manitoba Theatre Centre’s production of “Medea”. Written by Euripides, this ancient Greek tragedy centers on the myth of Jason, leader of the Argonauts, who has won the dragon-guarded treasure of the Golden Fleece with the help of the sorceress Medea. Having married Medea and fathered her two children, Jason abandons her for a more favorable match, never suspecting the terrible revenge she will take.

The play opens on November 20th and runs through December 13th. In January and February 2009, the production is scheduled to move to the Canon Theatre in Toronto (Jan 9 - Feb 8 ).

Source: Manitoba Theatre Centre

Back into the genre, but on the other side: Nigel is playing vampire hunter Dr. Simon Polidori in the feature film “Eternal Kiss”.

Written, produced and directed by Paul Kimball, “Eternal Kiss” tells the story of David Manners, a thirty-something filmmaker from the small seaside town of Harker’s Cove who gets more than he bargained for when he sets out to make a documentary about people who believe in the existence of vampires… and finds himself the target of media mogul Elisabeth Langstrom, a very real vampire who is convinced that David is her soul-mate.

Production is scheduled to wrap up this week. Release is planned for summer 2009.

Source: The Coast Guard, Shelburne

New screenshots have been added. Check out the Screenshot section for “The Arrow”, “Trudeau II” and the documentary “War of 1812″.
All films are available on DVD.

The 2nd season of “The Border” will begin airing September 29 at 9 pm on CBC.

According to Amazon.ca, the DVD release of Season 1 is scheduled for November 18, 2008.

Last year Nigel joined the cast of the ecological thriller “Burn Up”, a powerful story of love, commitment and divided loyalty, in which the stakes couldn’t be higher. This topical thriller sees oil company executives, environmental activists and politicians collide in the battle between economic success and ecological responsibility.

Further information is available here.

The two-part miniseries is scheduled to air on BBC2 July 23 and 25.

Source: BBC2

Production has begun on the second season of “The Border”. James McGowan, Sofia Milos, Graham Abbey and Nazneen Contractor return, along with supporting cast members Jonas Chernick, Catherine Disher, Mark Wilson, Jim Codrington, Nigel Bennett and Sarah Gadon.

Source: CBC

Nigel joined the cast of the German-Canadian co-production “Sea Wolf”. The 2 x 90 min miniseries is the latest adaptation of Jack London’s famous novel about the brutal and cynical Captain Wolf Larson, who is played by German actor Sebastian Koch.

The miniseries is produced by Herbert Kloiber’s Tele-München Group for RHI Entertainment in the U.S. and German public broadcaster ZDF. Filming is scheduled to be completed by the end of July.

More information on the production is available here.

Source: The Chronicle Herald, Halifax

John Walker’s documentary drama “Passage” will screen at the Hot Docs Festival in Toronto on April 20 and 23. Based on the lives of Dr. John Rae, explorer for the Hudson’s Bay Company, and Sir John Franklin, British Royal Navy officer and leader of an ill-fated 1840s Arctic expedition, the film follows a trail from London to the Orkney Islands to Nunavut, elegantly slipping between past and present, drama and documentary, observational and self-reflexive cinema, to present the forces that made Franklin a hero and banished Rae to the margins of history.

Nigel plays the part of Sir James Graham.

Source: Hot Docs Festival

Nigel will be one of the panelists in a new prime-time 6-hour TV series called Short Film Face Off, presented by CBC Atlantic and the Atlantic Film Festival Association.

Beginning Wednesday, April 16th at 7 p.m., each show will screen three short films by directors from across Atlantic Canada. After each film is screened, the panelists will talk with the directors about their work and each night one film will be chosen to go on to the semi-finals, where a winner will be chosen by online viewer voting. The final show announcing the winner will air Wednesday, May 21st.

Previous episodes can be viewed here.

Source: Atlantic Film Festival

Nigel is currently playing Edward in Neptune Theatre’s production of “The Retreat from Moscow” by William Nicholson.

It’s while reading about Napoleon’s fateful campaign to Moscow that Edward, a teacher at a boy’s school, makes a momentous decision – to leave Alice, his wife of 34 years. The ensuing fracas is an explosive encounter where both sides walk away battered and wounded.

“The Retreat from Moscow” is a scathingly honest look at the personal and emotional casualties of a shattered marriage.

The play is on stage until March 30.

Source: Neptune Theatre

Check out the Backstage section for more information.