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Theatre Ontario Festival 2005
Belleville, Ontario
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Wednesday, May 18 |
Proof |
Ottawa Little Theatre |
EODL | |||
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Thursday, May 19 |
Vigil |
Theatre Burlington |
WODL | |||
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Friday, May 20 |
Marvin's Room |
The Curtain Club |
ACT-CO | |||
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Saturday, May 21 |
The Boys Next Door |
Family Life Theatre |
QUONTA | |||
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Sunday, May 22 |
Awards Brunch |
Festival 2005 was held at The Empire Theatre & Centre For The Performing Arts in Belleville.
Tickets are available by calling the Empire Theatre Box Office at 613-969-0099, Mondays to Saturdays between 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. or online at The Empire Theatre website.
The adjudicator for Festival 2005 was Jane Carnwath . Ms. Carnwath has been involved in many aspects of theatre for a number of years. She has an MFA from York University and was Professor of Acting, Music Theatre Program at Sheridan College for ten years, and Program Director for the Alumnae Theatre in Toronto for several years. Her directing credits include: Between The Lines, Alumnae New Ideas Festival; Jennie’s Story, Sheridan Music Theatre; The Gut Girls, Alumnae Theatre; and The Children's Hour, Theatre Erindale. She has worked with community theatre groups as a production consultant and acting instructor, as well as teaching a directing course at Theatre Ontario Summer Courses. She has adjudicated regional festivals across the province, and the Theatre Saskatchewan Festival.
Each morning (Thursday through Sunday), Ms. Carnwarth gave an adjudication of the previous evening's performance. On Thursday afternoon, she lead a workshop on Acting Techniques.
Friday afternoon featured readings by Carl Cashin. Born on "The Rock" (Newfoundland) and raised in Toronto, Carl Cashin abandoned corporate life in 1976 to open a summer resort on the Trent-Severn Waterway, near the town of Stirling, Ontario. Life at the resort provided the background for twenty-one published anecdotes dealing with "life in a campground" entitled The Janitor. His love of theatre was kindled while working backstage at the Belleville Theatre Guild on productions of Angel Street, Harvey, and The Stone Angel, where lighting, sound and stage management were his main focus. Bitten, he wrote Pathways and Yesterday's Hero, both one-act plays which won several awards and praise at the Eastern Ontario Drama League Festival. Mail-Order Annie , Carl's first full-length play, placed first in Theatre BC's 13th Annual National Playwriting Competition, and reflects his love of history and the imprint it leaves on us all.
Saturday afternoon featured readings by David S. Craig. David S. Craig is currently the Artistic Director, Roseneath Theatre. Throughout his career, Mr. Craig has been a prolific playwright with twenty-seven professional credits. He is the author of Booster McCrane, P.M., All For Beaver Hats!, The Railroad Story, Cue for Treason, Fires in the Night: The Story of the School on Wheels, and most recently Having Hope at Home. During the 2001/2002 season, NOW Magazine named Mr. Craig "one of Canada's top 20 playwrights." In 2005, his play Danny, King of the Basement will have its European Premiere in England at the M6 and Sheffield Theatres.
Accommodations are available at the Clarion Inn, 211 Pinnacle Street, Belleville at 613-962-4531 or 1-800-383-4963, www.belleville-clarion.com.
Information from Belleville Theatre Guild on the Festival, local attractions, restaurants, and alternate accommodations are available through their website at www.btg.reach.net.
On Sunday morning, Ms. Carnwarth presented awards in the following categories:
The Elsie (Outstanding
Production)
Marvin's Room, The Curtain Club
Outstanding Director
Joan
Sullivan Eady, Proof, Ottawa Little Theatre
Outstanding Performance by a
Male
Jerome Bourgault as Hal, Proof, Ottawa
Little Theatre
(also nominated: Vincenzo Guerriero as Kemp,
Vigil , Theatre
Burlington)
Outstanding Performance by a
Female
(in lieu of one of her Adjudicator's Awards, the
adjudicator gave two equal awards in this category)
Victoria
Curran as Bessie, Marvin's Room, The Curtain Club
Dalene
Flannigan as Lee, Marvin's Room, The Curtain Club
(also
nominated: Chantale Plante-Ginley as Catherine, Proof , Ottawa Little Theatre)
Outstanding Performance by a Male in a
Supporting Role
Stephan Ermel as Hank, Marvin's Room, The Curtain Club
Outstanding Performance by a Female in a
Supporting Role
Rebecca Buttigieg as Sheila, The Boys
Next Door, Family Life Theatre
(also nominated: Kay Valentine as
Ruth, Marvin's Room , The
Curtain Club)
Outstanding Visual
Presentation
Vigil, Theatre Burlington
Outstanding Technical
Achievement
Vigil, Theatre Burlington
Outstanding Coordinated
Production
(as chosen by the Festival Stage
Manager)
Marvin's Room, The Curtain Club
Special Adjudicator Awards
(4)
1. For outstanding ensemble: The Boys Next Door, Family
Life Theatre
2. For outstanding juvenile performance: Tristan Claxton as Charlie, Marvin's
Room, The Curtain Club
3. For memorable
moment: The "all-is-revealed" moment, Vigil,
Theatre Burlington
4. For memorable moment: The brilliant orchestration of a wrenching emotional train-wreck, The Boys Next Door, Family Life Theatre
The Richard Howard Award
(Scholarship to a Theatre
Ontario Summer Course for a competing director in the Festival)
Michael
Hennessy, The Boys Next Door, Family Life Theatre
The Perry Short
Award
(Scholarship to a Theatre Ontario Summer Course for a
competing set designer in the Festival)
Mary Jane Boon, Marvin's
Room, The Curtain Club
