For their fifth year the Canalside Players are baring it all.

Starting April 13 the community theatre group will kick off a two-week run of The Bare Bear Bones by Ontario playwright Michael Grant. The play follows the weekend of two empty nesters, Ruth and Norman, who in an attempt to rekindle their love head to the campground where as a young couple they brought their children, the Bear Bones Campground.

The pair arrive in the middle of the night and awake to a rather revealing discovery, the formerly family friendly site has been renamed the Bare Bones Alternative Lifestyle Camp. The aging married couple finds themselves smack dab in the middle of a group of nudists on their romantic weekend.

“It’s a kind of love story,” said director Sara Tellier, recalling how when she first read the script she couldn’t stop laughing. What really sold it though, according to Tellier, were the touching moments of love woven between the laughs.

The play follows the couple’s entire weekend as they try to make the best of the situation, barricading their site into a fortress of sorts against the rising tide of bare skin.

“It’s like the Alamo,” laughed Tellier, noting the production is coming together nicely with a cast of eight. She was quick to note audiences need not fear gratuitous nudity, or any for that matter really, as the group has made clever use of props and sets to ensure audiences don’t find the production too revealing.

The show runs at 7 p.m. at the Welland Community Wellness Complex on April 13, 14, 20 and 21 with a 2 p.m. matinee on April 15. Tickets are $15 for complex pass holders and $17 for non pass holders.