EODL One Act Play Festival

Three sessions of 3 plays each!

 A really great way to spend the week-end!

Session 1: Friday, November 11 at 7:30                                                     

Session 2: Saturday, November 12 at 1:30 pm 

Session 3: Saturday, November 12 at 7:30 pm

Awards Brunch: Sunday, November 13 at 11:00 am

We at the Studio Theatre are proud to be once again hosting the Eastern Ontario Drama League One Act Play Festival, where nine community theatre companies from all over Eastern Ontario present their finest short plays in three sessions on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon and evening.

Studio Theatre Productions is pleased to be presenting 2 plays this year: Norm Foster’s romantic comedy The Christmas Tree and a reprise of Act 1 of the heartwarming Mail-Order Annie, which we presented as a full play in our summer season. It is interesting to note that Carl Cashin, the author, originally wrote Mail-Order Annie as a one act play, but added two more acts because his audiences wanted to know what happened next!

We are pleased to confirm that the following Community Theatres, in alphabetical order, will be presenting their One Act Plays during the festival:

• Highlands Little Theatre, Haliburton
• Kemptville Players, Kemptville
• Ottawa Little Theatre, Ottawa
• Peterborough Theatre Guild
• Studio Theatre Productions, Perth
• Tara Players, Ottawa
• Theatre Night in Merrickville
• Valley Players, Almonte

SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES

FRIDAY EVENING AT 7:30 PM                               

Mail Order Annie by Carl Cashin: Studio Theatre Productions, Perth

This is a Play by Daniel MacIvor: Theatre Night in Merrickville

Trifles by Susan Glaspell: Kemptville Players

SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT 1:30 PM

Those Who Can, Do by Marianne Mullan: Valley Players, Almonte

The Third Life of Eddie Mann by John Spurway: Ottawa Little Theatre

Bedtime Story by Sean O'Casey: Tara Players, Ottawa

SATURDAY EVENING AT 7:30 PM 

Gosforth’s Fete By Alan Ayckbourn: Highlands Little Theatre, Haliburton

House by David MacIvor: Peterborough Theatre Guild

The Christmas Tree By Norm Foster: Studio Theatre Productions, Perth

ABOUT THE EASTERN ONTARIO DRAMA LEAGUE

The Eastern Ontario Drama League is an umbrella organization representing community theatres from Haliburton to Cornwall, Cobourg to Ottawa. EODL fosters development and interest in the performing arts. It serves as a resource centre for theatre activities in Eastern Ontario, and provides community theatre groups with a communications medium throughout the province. EODL promotes artistic and technical standards, and encourages education in theatre arts. A program of competitive drama festivals is a principal means of advancing these aims and The One Act Play Festival in November is one of these.

ADJUDICATOR:

This year EODL is very pleased to introduce the Festival Adjudicator, Chris Worsnop.   

Chris Worsnop has been connected with community and student theatre for more than 50 years. In that time he has done almost all things theatrical, playing all kinds of roles on stage, dramatic and musical, professional and non, and doing all kinds of backstage work as well. He has directed, written scripts, worked as a play polisher, presented workshops and organized and hosted festivals. He knows and understands community and student theatre from the inside. He is the proud winner of two acting awards from ACT-CO and another from EODL. For several years he operated a professional murder mystery theatre company that specialized in resort-based murderous weekends. As an adjudicator he has worked at various levels in the Sears Festival, the Meadowvale Music Theatre Festival on three separate occasions, the ACT-CO Festival for two consecutive years (2006/7 & 2007/8), the Eastern Ontario Drama League One Act Play Festival (2008) and the Theatre Ontario Festival (2009). He enjoys developing a dialogue with practitioners in his adjudications, exploring the triumphs and challenges of community and student theatre in a rigorous and friendly session of peer review. Chris is available to lead a workshop on sound design, and also enjoys working as a play polisher for spoken-word theatre.

To enhance your theatre experience throughout the festival, there will be public adjudications after each session. The adjudicator will also conduct private reviews with the directors, cast members and crew of each play.

HOSPITALITY SUITE:

A Hospitality Suite (“Green Room”) will be open on Friday and Saturday after the final performances of each evening. These will take place at O’Reilly’s Pub on Friday and at the Perth Restaurant on Saturday. These are both located on Gore Street and both will operate on a “cash only” basis. This is a fun time to relax and enjoy mingling with theatre friends, meeting directors, cast and crew and exchanging thoughts on the day’s plays.  Please see Ticket Sales Information below for details.  

THE AWARDS BRUNCH:

The Award Brunch will take place on Sunday, November 13, upstairs at Code’s Mill on the Park – Wilson Street entrance - from 11:00 am. The Award Ceremony will commence after the brunch and is always an exciting time. The Adjudicator announces the individuals or groups whom he considered for the 13 awards, and then announces the winner for each category.

THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD:

Audience members who have attended all nine plays have a major role in selecting their favorite play of the Festival, the winner of The People’s Choice Award. Following the final performance of the Festival on Saturday night, voters complete and place their ballots in ballot boxes in the theatre lobby. The votes are then tabulated and the winner announced during the Awards Ceremony on Sunday.

TICKET INFORMATION:

Tickets available by calling Isabel Joyce at 613-326-0437 OR by clicking here, completing the order form and mailing it directly to Isabel Joyce, 3 Mary Street, Perth, ON, K7H 2X1, together with your cheque, made payable to The Studio Theatre. Pick-up will be in the Studio Theatre lobby, on Friday & Saturday, 11 and 12 November.

Ticket Prices: $ 15.00 for each session of   three (3) plays

Green Rooms: (Hospitality Suites) $ 5.00 each of Friday and Saturday evenings -   snacks included

Brunch and Awards Ceremony $ 30.00

Package Deal (includes all of above) $ 80.00

SPONSORSHIP/DONATIONS/ADVERTISING:

Should you wish to support the Studio Theatre Perth as host of this year’s EODL One Act Play Festival by sponsoring, advertising in the EODL program or making a donation, please contact Jackie Boyer by emailing perthstudiotheatre@yahoo.ca or leave a message at 613-267-7469. She will contact you as soon as possible. Closing date for Program advertisements: 1 November, 2011.

RAFFLE DETAILS: Please click here for details of the theatre's Raffle, offering 3 beautiful prizes donated by local artists, with photographs of those prizes. Also click biographies for further information on the artists. The winning numbers will be drawn during the Awards Brunch on Sunday 13 November, 2011.

PERTH ACCOMMODATIONS

*     Code’s Mill Inn is the official festival hotel and located 5 minutes from the theatre   **   These motels are located on Highway 7 and are not within easy walking distance of the theatre and downtown

PERTH RESTAURANTS

Please note that the above list of accommodations and restaurants are for your convenience; the Studio Theatre cannot take responsibility for their quality.