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History
Founded in 1992, 4th Line Theatre in Millbrook Ontario Canada, is one of Canada’s premiere outdoor theatre companies that brings history to life on the barnyard stages of the picturesque 5th generation Winslow farm. The theatre company is committed to preserving and promoting Canadian cultural heritage through the development and presentation of regionally based, environmentally staged historical drama.

Founding Artistic Director Robert Winslow was born in Peterborough Ontario and raised on the family farm. Realizing his calling was to the theatre and not farming he started acting locally and in Alberta. After the death of both his parents Winslow, an only child, realized the only way to keep the family farm, the only home he knew, and to pursue a career in acting use the 100 acre farm as a venue for theatrical performances. The theatre is named after the farm's address.

The first production was The Cavan Blazers presented one weekend during the summer of 1992. Winslow wrote the play after researching his ancestral roots during a trip to counties Cavan and Monaghan Ireland. The play is based on the antagonistic and often violent relationship between Catholic and Protestant Irish immigrants who came to Canada in the mid 1850's, founding the area now known as Cavan Monaghan Township in near the city of Peterborough Ontario.

The weekend production was successful and was held over for three additional weekends. In the past nineteen years thirty productions, many written, directed and/or performed by Winslow, have been presented on a barnyard stage or other locations on the Winslow Farm.

Artistic Director
 Robert Winslow (1992 - present)  One of Canada’s leading theatre artists, Robert Winslow has written or co-written 14 of the original plays based on regional history that have been presented at the 4th Line Theatre since founding the theatre in 1992. He has directed the majority of the productions and performed in several of them. An established theatre artist, Winslow has been involved in theatre for over 30 years as playwright, actor, director and artistic director.

Winslow has performed in theatres across Canada, the U.S. and Britain since 1982, including the Blyth Festival; Edmonton’s Theatre Network, Northern Lights, Citadel Theatre, Catalyst, Nexus Theatre; the Cincinnati Playhouse; Calgary’s Lunchbox Theatre and Fringe Festival. In 1986 he toured to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Tuffnell Park Theatre in London, England.

Winslow has received numerous awards and tributes including the Queen’s Jubilee Medal, the J. Hampden Burnham Heritage Award and induction into the Peterborough and District Pathway of Fame. In November 2009 Robert was awarded a Chalmers Arts Fellowship by the Ontario Arts Council.

Winslow has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto and taught a theatre workshop course in the Cultural Studies Department at Trent University for several years.

New Play Development Program
 4th Line Theatre's New Play Development Program .... 

2010 Season
Eldorado Town - The Port Hope Play by Charles Hayter and directed by Robert Winslow - June 29 – July 24 From the radium craze of the 1930s to the beginnings of the Cold War, this play examines how a small Ontario town played a significant role in ending WW II and in the coming of the nuclear age. The Right Road to Pontypool by Alex Poch-Goldin and directed by Kim Blackwell - <> August 2 – August 28 The loving chronicle of one man’s sun kissed dream for Toronto’s working class Jews in the early 1900s. In its heyday, Pontypool, in the heart of Protestant southern Ontario, was a summer haven for thousands of Jewish immigrants.