Driftwood Theatre’s fundraiser this year has a huge pop-culture property at its heart, plus a number of classically trained actors to help bring it to life. The 2013 edition of Play in a Pub will be a staging of Ian Doescher’s William Shakespeare’s Star Wars, a mash-up of the bard’s work with George Lucas’s space opera. The cast includes Michael Therriault as R2D2, Sarah Wilson as Princess Leia, Karl Ang as Jabba the Hutt, and veteran actor R.H. Thomson as Obi Wan Kenobi. A silent auction begins at 6:30 p.m. and closes at 8 p.m., when “It is a period of civil war…” opens the show.

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