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Theatre Ontario Festival 2006Sarnia, Ontario
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Wednesday, May 17 | Jake's Women | Theatre Sarnia | WODL | |||
Thursday, May 18 | Proof |
The Curtain Club |
ACT-CO | |||
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Friday, May 19 |
That Summer |
Theatre SMC |
QUONTA | |||
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Saturday, May 20 |
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me |
Peterborough |
EODL | |||
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Sunday, May 21 |
Awards Brunch |
Festival 2006 was held at The Imperial Oil Centre for the Performing Arts in Sarnia.
Tickets were available by calling the Box Office at 519-344-SHOW (7469) . Until March 31, 2006, tickets for four shows were $60.00. From April 1 to May 16, tickets were $70.00; May 17 to May 20 at $22.00 per show. Awards brunch tickets were $25.00; and After Blow Tickets (this is not a typo) at $5.00/night.
Curtain for all performances was at 7:30pm.
The adjudicator for Festival 2006 was Virginia Reh. Virginia’s multi-faceted career embraces directing, acting, teaching, theatre, music theatre, opera, film, T.V. A former Artistic Director of the Gryphon Theatre, she has worked with the Shaw Festival, Canadian, Edmonton and Vancouver Opera Companies, Opera Lyra, Bayview Playhouse, Tapestry Singers, and Theatre on the Grand, as well as teaching at the Banff Festival, Sheridan College, the Opera School at the University of Toronto and Theatre Ontario’s Summer and Youth Courses. She was drama coach and Production Manager for the Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus for 14 years. A transplanted New Yorker, Virginia has been a champion of Canadian theatre, was a founding Co-Director of ScriptLab, developing and workshopping scripts for film, theatre and music theatre. She is known to community theatres around the province as a director, workshop leader, production consultant and adjudicator. Recent adjudications include WODL, Sears and ACT-CO musicals (2003/04). Virginia is a recipient of Theatre Ontario’s Maggie Bassett Award, for her outstanding contribution to theatre in Ontario.
Each morning (Thursday through Sunday), Ms. Reh gave an adjudication of the previous evening's performance. On Thursday afternoon, she lead a workshop on Directing: Working With Actors.
Friday afternoon featured readings by Florence Gibson.
Florence Gibson was born in Montreal and raised in Cobourg, Ontario. She has an undergraduate degree in biochemistry and genetics and an M.D. She practised in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Hong Kong and Kenya, East Africa before returning to Canada to practice and eventually write full-time.
Her play Belle was short listed for a British Council New International Playwriting Award in 1996 before its premiere at Factory Theatre, Toronto, in 2000. It was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play and won a Chalmers Canadian Play Award. It has also been produced in London, England, Ottawa and New York.
Her dramatic monologue Riding the Roller Coaster won the short fiction first prize in the 11th Annual Short Grain Contest, 1999, and was a finalist in Lamia Ink’s One Page Play contest in New York, 2004. The first draft of her screenplay A Man Like Me was shortlisted for a Praxis Award in 1999. Her radio play, A Recipe for Tomato Butter, aired on CBC Radio for the first anniversary of September 11th, has since been performed at the Edward Albee Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Alaska, and in Calgary, Alberta, Winnipeg and Brandon, Manitoba and in Maine, U.S.A. Her radio drama Missing You, (Love) aired in September 2001 on CBC and Florence is commissioned to adapt it for the stage for Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto in 2006. Missing has just won the Herman Voaden National Playwriting Award, 2005.
Her play, Home is My Road, produced at Factory Theatre, Toronto in 2003, where she is currently writer-in-residence, won the Carol Bolt Canadian Authors Association National Award for drama, 2004.
Florence is playwright-in-residence at Factory Theatre, Toronto and is currently working on How Do I Love Thee?, a play about Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, commissioned by Factory Theatre. She is also commissioned to write i think i can for Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, a play about the annual science fair told entirely in tap dance. She is completing her novel, Stout.
Florence Gibson appeared with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Playwrights Guild of Canada.
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Accommodations were available at the Village Inn. Rooms were $104.95/night. Reservations could be made at 519-344-1157.
On Sunday morning, Ms. Reh presented awards in the following categories:
The Elsie (Outstanding Production) Outstanding Director
Outstanding Performance by a Male
Outstanding Performance by a Female Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Supporting Role Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Supporting Role Outstanding Visual Presentation Outstanding Technical Achievement Outstanding Coordinated Production Special Adjudicator Awards (5) 2. For outstanding performance by a newcomer: Jennifer Gooderham as Daisy Ryan, That Summer, Theatre SMC 3. For a sensitive musical embodiment of memories: Meghan Gardner, Violinist,
That Summer, Theatre SMC 4. For ensemble acting: Jake's Women, Theatre Sarnia 5. For extraordinary character creation: Christopher Spear as Michael; Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Peterborough Theatre Guild The Richard Howard Award The Perry Short Award
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Peterborough Theatre Guild
Nora & John Martyn, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Peterborough Theatre Guild
Tim Caddigan as Edward, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Peterborough Theatre Guild
Shannon L. Aguila as Catherine, Proof, The Curtain Club
(also nominated: Karen Davies as Julie, Jake's Women, Theatre Sarnia and Shana Brown as Margaret Ryan, That Summer, Theatre SMC)
David O'Neill as Adam, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Peterborough Theatre Guild
(also nominated: Christian Smiley as Hal, Proof, The Curtain Club and Caleb Nault as Paul Wyatt, That Summer, Theatre SMC)
Marney Austen as Karen, Jake's Women, Theatre Sarnia
(also nominated: Jean Simon as Edith, Jake's Women, Theatre Sarnia)
Proof, The Curtain Club (for set, costumes, lights, props and set decor)
That Summer, Theatre SMC
(chosen by the Festival Stage
Manager)
Proof, The Curtain Club
1. For outstanding
performance - youth: Chloe Milne as Molly (12), Jake's Women, Theatre Sarnia
(also nominated: Katie Irwin as Caitlin, That Summer, Theatre SMC)
(also nominated: Caleb Nault as Paul Wyatt, That
Summer, Theatre SMC)
(Scholarship to a Theatre Ontario Summer Course for a competing director in the Festival)
Joseph Lauzon & Loretta Durat, That Summer, Theatre SMC
(Scholarship to a Theatre Ontario Summer Course for a competing set designer in the Festival)
Mary Jane Boon, Proof, The Curtain Club