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GUELPH LITTLE THEATRE
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During the March Break, Guelph Little Theatre (GLT) will be hosting the annual Western Ontario Drama League (WODL) Theatre Festival. Because 2017 is Canada’s Sesquicentennial year, all plays entered in the festival this year are written by Canadian playwrights.
On Sunday, Feb. 19, Lindsay Price the Preliminary Adjudicator for this year announced her choice for the five plays to be presented at Guelph Little Theatre from Mar. 13 to 17 at 8 p.m.
Lindsay Price is herself a Canadian playwright. During the festival, the five plays she has chosen will be adjudicated for a second time by festival adjudicator Beatrix Quarrie.
The winner of this festival will represent Western Ontario at the annual Theatre Ontario Festival to be held in Ottawa during the Victoria Day weekend.
The five plays to be presented at the Guelph Little Theatre include the following:
Monday, Mar. 13 at 8 p.m. – Ten Times Two by David Belke
Presented by Theatre Tillsonburg
David Belke is an Edmonton playwright.
This is a comedy of romantic pursuit. He is cursed with immortality. She is reincarnated every 75 years. The play starts in 1399 and extends to the present.
Tuesday, Mar. 14 at 8 p.m. – Albertine in Five Times by Michel Tremblay
Presented by Cambridge Community Players
A Canadian classic written by one of French Canada’s leading playwrights.
Five actors play the same woman at five different decades in her life – age 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70. If you could talk to your former self, what would you say?
This play is presented without an intermission.
Wednesday, Mar. 15 at 8 p.m. – Willow Quartet by Joan Burrows
Presented by Theatre Sarnia
Joan Burrows is a Richmond Hill playwright popular with community theatres.
A family tragedy has ended Kim and Ben’s marriage. Kim struggles with her unresolved grief, and falls in love again. It doesn’t work out.
Thursday Mar. 16 at 8 p.m. – Better Living by George F. Walker
Presented by Ghost Light Players (Windsor)
Walker is one of Toronto’s most prolific playwrights and screenwriters.
In this play, a family is faced with the return of their abusive patriarch ten years after they tried to kill him.
Friday March 17 at 8 pm – Outlaw by Norm Foster
Presented by Elmira Theatre Company
Norm Foster is Canada’s most produced playwright and a favourite of Summer Theatres and Community Theatres. Outlaw is a comedy about a Canadian accused of murder in the American Wild West in 1871 even though he refuses to carry a gun.
Also on Mar. 17, Norm Foster will speak at a special Play Reading event at the Holiday Inn Guelph at 1:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by the Canada Council and Playwrights Guild of Canada.
Playwrights Canada Press will stage a book display and sale at the same time and same place.
Tickets for any of the five plays can be purchased ONLY at the River Run Centre Box Office. Go in person to 35 Woolwich Street or phone (519) 763-3000 or purchase on line at www.guelphlittletheatre.com.
Single tickets are $24 each. A 5-play package costs $110 and tickets to the Awards Gala Banquet on Mar. 18 can be purchased for $55.
The 2017 WODL Canadian Theatre Festival is sponsored by the Guelph Community Foundation. This initiative is made possible by the Community Fund for Canada’s 150th, a collaboration between The Guelph Community Foundation, the Government of Canada, and extraordinary leaders from coast to coast to coast.
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