What’s On This Week

PRESIDENT’S RECEPTION Held in the lobby of the Alberni District Secondary School Performing Arts Theatre lobby, 4000 Roger Street, Port Alberni. Theatre B.C. celebrates the “Best of the Best in B.C.” Meet and mingle with our sponsors, committee members and special invitees to start off this amazing week of theatre! DISCUSSION FORUMS (continued) Start time 6:30 on July 5th July 6: Producer’s How To & Brainstorming (Dogwood Room, Echo Centre, 4255 Wallace) GREEN ROOM SOCIALS July 10: Safe Spaces Followup Following each evening of theatre, you are invited July 11: Indigenous Theatre Projects to head to our Green Room socials at The Capitol July 12: Money Makers Brainstorming Theatre (4904 Argyle Street, Port Alberni), where Drop in to listen, share and take part in the audience members, cast and crew, will celebrate discussions. that night’s performance while enjoying great food, great conversation and great music! This year we are celebrating DIVERSITY and each night’s Green Room WORKSHOPS party will feature a colour of the rainbow as its theme. Workshops are being held throughout the week. See our centre spread for which colours are on which Some are near capacity. Info and registration is at the nights. Capitol Theatre. Registration desk hours are 10:00 Dress up and enjoy what each colour can offer! am to 4:00 pm Friday to Friday during the week of Green room is open until 1:00 am every night Mainstage. Check out our more detailed descriptions on our workshop play page. COFFEE CRITIQUES Our adjudicator Dean Paul Gibson will discuss in- STAGED PLAY READING depth the previous night’s performance with the cast This play is the winner of Theatre B.C.’s National and crew. Audience members are welcome as it is Playwriting Competition in the One Act category. open to everyone who shows a ticket for the previous Come see “Castle On The Farm” by Alaina Baskerville- night’s show. It is a wonderful learning experience for Bridges at The Capitol Theatre on Friday, July 12th everyone involved with Mainstage! at 2:00 pm. Drop-in, no charge. Held at the Alberni District Secondary School, 4000 Roger Street - Room hiišimłuwit, C-225/C226 from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm. THEATRE B.C. AGM Entry to this room is through the ADSS Theatre doors. Our Annual General Meeting and Elections will be Turn left after passing through the lobby of the held at The Capitol Theatre, 4904 Argyle Street, on Performing Arts Theatre. Signs and volunteers are on Saturday, July 13th. Registration starts at 1:15pm site to help you find your way. with the meeting to start at 2:00 pm. DISCUSSION FORUMS AWARDS GALA NIGHT CELEBRATION Free informal discussion forums, and a follow-up to Will be held at The Italian Hall, 4065 6th Avenue, last year’s Safe Spaces Forum, will be held at the Echo Port Alberni, on Saturday, July 13th. Fieldhouse, just steps to the southeast behind the Cocktails at 6:00 pm, Dinner at 7:00 pm, ADSS Theatre. They’ll be held from 1:00 to 4:00 pm as Youth Staged Reading at 7:30pm, listed above right. (The first forum on July 6 will be at Award Ceremony at 8:00 pm, and Echo Centre in the Dogwood Room). Music/Mingling until 1:00 am

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SPONSORS Our Corporate Sponsors Alberni Valley News / Black Press MAINSTAGE COMMITTEE The Graphics Factory Co-Chairs Peter Wienold, Brent Ronning Portal Players Dramatic Society Treasurer Jacqollyne Keath Secretary Carrera Schroeder Our Thespian Awards Sponsors Hospitality/Catering Cindy N. Solda The Graphics Factory Sponsorships/Grants Elliot Drew, Dale Hillman Langley Players Drama Club Program Peter Wienold Nanaimo Theatre Group Ads Brent Ronning, Peter Wienold Theatre BC Central Interior Zone Theatre BC Okanagan Zone Workshops Adele Kuyek, Nicole Saugstad Courtenay Little Theatre Registration Andrea Markiewicz, Peter Wienold Powerhouse Theatre Volunteer Co-ordinator Brent Ronning The Italian Hall Decorating Mary Ann Naesgaard Christie Lights Social Media Peter Wienold, Vanessa Schoen Theatre Kelowna Society Marketing/Publicity Peter Wienold, Committee Naeagaard’s Farm & Market Website Peter Wienold Doug Perri & Norman White Technician (ADSS) Andrew Taylor Theatre BC North Island Zone Technician (Capitol Theatre) Diena Tyne Theatre BC North Shore Zone Backstage Co-ordinator Melissa Lowe Our Green Room Sponsors 50/50 Draw Jacqollyne Keath, Richard Kerton Solda’s Restaurant President’s Reception Peter Wienold, Brent Ronning Baker’s Dozen Catering Awards Ceremony Peter Wienold, Richard Kerton The Clam Bucket Restaurant Venues Set-up Co-ordinator Brent Ronning Schill Insurance 2019/20 Mainstage Design Edward Johnson Jr Swale Rock Cafe Poster Design Peter Wienold Theatre BC North Island Zone Graphics Competition Rollin Art Centre Theatre BC North Shore Zone Theatre BC Fraser Valley Zone And we could not have done it without our Volunteers Theatre BC Central Interior Zone Melanie Anderson Morgan Martin Theatre BC Okanagan Zone Niklas Burton David McGarry Melissah Charboneau Our Hospitality Sponsors Corrine Moore Mitzi Colyn Circle Dairy Libbie Morin Jeff Cook B&C Food Distributors Muzz Sanders Quality Foods Pam Craig Nicole Saugstad Richard Kerton Vanessa Schoen Grants Kaj Knudsen Hannele Talkio Arts Council Karl Korven City of Port Alberni Gail Tisdale Peter Lapins Diena Tyne Acknowledgements Heather Maloney Alberni Valley Community Arts Council Alberni Valley Chamber of Commerce Thank you to anyone who was missed, to those who supported us silently Alberni.ca or at the last minute, and whose names we did not have at time of printing.

Theatre BC 2019 Mainstage Program | 7 Workshops

WORKSHOP PLAY with Nicolle Nattrass Sat July 6th to Mon July 8th at The Capitol Theatre We are thrilled to be bringing back our Workshop Play component. This year Nicolle Nattrass will be working with the cast and crew of “Annapurna” by Sharr White and CONSENT IN THE THEATRE: MAKING performed by Bridge To Broadway from Fort St John, BC. “Annapurna” was runner-up in this year’s Peace River Zone DRAMATIC CHANGE with Fran Gebhard & Lauren Frost Drama Festival. This 3-day event will start with a public Monday, July 8, 1 pm to 4 pm, ADSS “Learning Commons” Room T-2 performance on the first day, a re-working over the next Are you an actor who is nervous about performing scenes 2 days with another public performance on the third day. of an intimate or aggressive nature? What does practicing There is also a Director’s Lab attached to the workshop for consent in the theatre actually look like? those directors who would love to learn how to take your UVic professor and director Fran Gebhard and Lauren Frost, play to the next level. Auditing spots may become available Applied Theatre major, give you the tools to dialogue with for all three days if the workshop reaches full capacity. directors about physical and psychological safety in the $120.00 rehearsal hall. Creating an environment of consent in the rehearsal hall, the audition room, the fitting room and on to Public Performance #1 (Before): Saturday July 6 at 2 pm the stage is a necessary tool for actors as well as directors. Public Performance #2 (After): Monday July 8 at 2 pm This interactive workshop addresses concerns regarding At The Capitol Theatre, 4904 Argyle Street, Port Alberni physical intimacy and safety. Participants will work with Admission at the door for each performance, $10.00 scenes provided by the instructors. $40.00 FOSTERING & INTUITING CONSENT MINING THE TEXT FOR DEEPER with Fran Gebhard & Graham McMonagle CONNECTION with Fran Gebhard Tuesday, July 9, 1 pm to 4 pm, ADSS “Learning Commons” Room T-2 Sunday, July 7, 1 pm to 4 pm, ADSS “Learning Commons” Room T-2 Want to learn how to create a safe rehearsal space? Are you Are you growing as an actor? Are you relying on old interested in working towards building ongoing strong methods to create character? Join Fran Gebhard, UVic relationships with the acting company? acting professor and director for a three-hour workshop Looking at scenes of an intimate or aggressive nature, exploring techniques based on the work of Sandy Meisner, directors will be coached in the language and skills required Bill Ball and Michael Shurtleff. Learn how to mine the text to maintain safe space when working with actors. UVic for more than given circumstances. Working with texts professor Fran Gebhard and dancer/designer Graham provided, participants will be given tools to find more McMonagle share skills for directors in this workshop. Scenes layers in their work and deeper relationships with their will be provided and participants will have the opportunity scene partners. $40.00 to direct each other in scenes which involve intimacy and aggression. $40.00

MOVING TO NEUTRALITY/ANIMATING CHARACTER with Fran Gebhard & Graham McMonagle Wed, July 10, 9 am to 12 pm, ADSS “Learning Commons” Room T-2 Are you looking for ways to get more in touch with the monologue; and integrating animal characterization into your physicality of your character? Want to be more than a rehearsal process. “stand and deliver” actor? Warm up your body without UVic acting professor Fran Gebhard and dancer/designer Graham wearing yourself out? Moving to Neutrality/Animating McMonagle introduce rudiments of Mitzfah Technique, and Character provides guided practice warming up the body guided monologue/scene work as tools to both warm up the without creating stress; finding the seminal gesture within a actor’s body and animate your performance. $40.00

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STAGE COMBAT: UNARMED NEW PLAY WORKSHOP with Robinson Wilson with Kathryn Shaw Tuesday, July 9, 9 am to 12 pm, Capitol Theatre Wednesday July 10 to Friday July 12, Capitol Theatre Unarmed Stage Combat The winner of the 2018 Canadian Playwriting Unarmed combat is the most often used fighting in any Competition in the One-Act Category is Castle On The performance. This includes falls, slaps, hair pulls, chokes, Farm by Alaina Baskerville-Bridges from Victoria, BC. among others. Basic Unarmed also includes punching in the This script is the subject of our New Play Workshop context of an untrained character. High emotion drives these this year, and the playwright will be in attendance. ordinary people to violence, so it is a great starting-point for actors. Directors and actors will have the opportunity to work in a meaningful way on the new play selected as the Dramatic Combat is an expression of violence on stage and winner of the Theatre BC Playwriting Competition. screen. When used in a safe and effective manner, it is a All participants will have the opportunity to give powerful dramaturgical and storytelling tool. $40.00 feedback to the author and to explore their own ideas regarding the play. Directors will be assigned scenes from the play to direct with those who have opted to be actors performing in the scenes. Depending STAGE COMBAT: RAPIER on the play (for example the number of characters with Robinson Wilson and the number of scenes) participants may also Tuesday, July 9, 1 pm to 4 pm, Capitol Theatre choose to both direct and act during the workshop. Undoubtedly the most common weapon used in onstage Participants will receive a copy of the chosen play combat, this class will examine basic techniques and cover before the workshop. They will be asked to answer the production of a short duel onstage with the focus on some questions from the director’s or actor’s point proper weapon management and safety. of view. Their reactions and ideas will be discussed with the entire group on the first day of the workshop Dramatic Combat is an expression of violence on stage and before splitting off into smaller groups. The workshop screen. When used in a safe and effective manner, it is a director will facilitate the discussion and will coach powerful dramaturgical and storytelling tool. $40.00 both the directors and actors during the workshop. A public reading of the play with a talkback may occur at the end of the workshop if time allows. This workshop will give participants hands on experience THEATRE YOUTH CAMP (Ages 13 - 18) in shaping a new play. $160.00 with Carrera Schroeder Wednesday, July 10, Capitol Theatre, 9 am to 4 pm Thursday July 11 - Saturday July 13, ECHO Centre Thursday, July 11, Capitol Theatre, 9 am to 4 pm This year, the youth camp will focus on the foundations Friday, July 12, Capitol Theatre, 9 am to 4 pm of acting. Young performers will hone their skills through improvisation, script analysis, character development, and STAGED READING for the public voice and creative movement work. Their work will culminate in a final staged reading of a play at the Awards Gala on July on Friday July 12 at 2:00 pm at 13, that is based on a well-known short story. This three- The Capitol Theatre, 4904 Argyle Street, day workshop will also offer students the chance to watch a Drop in, no charge. Mainstage show and participate in the coffee critique of that piece. $100.00

Theatre BC 2019 Mainstage Program | 9 Instructors

Nicolle Nattrass is an actress (CAEA / UBCP), playwright (Playwrights Guild of and staged readings. This past fall, her solo show, Mamahood: Canada) and a Director/Dramaturg. Bursting into Light directed by TJ Dawe opened the Phoenix She is thrilled to be back working for Theatre BC. She has worked as a Juror, Theatre’s season, as the Spotlight on Alumni feature at UVic (Oct Workshop Instructor, Dramaturge and Assistant Director for Theatre BC. She was 9-20/2019). As an actress, Nicolle has performed for many regional honored to work with Nanaimo Theatre Group’s production of “God of Carnage” theatres across Canada and worked in film/tv and radio. She is a Jessie Richardson Theatre nominated actress & which won Best Production at the 2014 Theatre BC Mainstage Awards and playwright who has explored her own work since her very first play, Brownie Points, which received nominations the play, “Bus Stop” which swept the 2015 Mainstage Awards with 10 awards. for Outstanding Performance and Outstanding New Play. Other recent acting credits include: Post Secret: The Show, She works as an Artistic Associate for Theatre One’s Emerging Voices as both a Nicolle joined the Canadian cast for both 2015 & 2016 at the Firehall Theatre in . Nicolle currently serves Dramaturge and Director for the last 7 years, working on new play development as National Forum Representative for Playwrights Guild of Canada, the Vancouver Island & Gulf Islands region.

Fran Gebhard is an assistant teaching professor in the theatre of Being Ernest, Les Liasions Dangereuses, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and You’re A Good Man Charlie department of the University of Victoria. She teaches first year acting Brown. Fran will direct Barefoot in the Park for Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre this summer. and acting for Film and Television and has also taught courses in Public Fran has worked in film and television for 30 years and was nominated for a Genie award for her role Speaking and Directing. in Blue City Slammers. Fran has adjudicated most zone festivals for Theatre BC. In July of 2015 she She received her MFA in Directing at the University of British Columbia. was the Mainstage adjudicator in Kamloops. She enjoys giving workshops in Acting and Directing for She has worked in theatres across Canada appearing in or directing more Theatre BC. She says her favorite job is sharing her passion for the theatre. Fran is co-instructing select than 50 plays. Her most recent directing credits include The Importance workshops with two of her students, Lauren Frost and Graham McMonagle. GUEST INSTRUCTORS - Lauren Frost is a fourth year student at Graham McMonagle is an award-winning interdisciplinary production UVic, pursuing a double major in Theatre and Gender Studies. She designer, performer, and teacher. Working in a range of styles from ballet is passionate about interdisciplinary work and strives to combine (performance and design), to text-based theatre from the classic canon, and feminism, activism, and theatre together in a way that creates beautiful music-theatre (both opera and musicals), his work has received national and and meaningful art and/or education. She is currently a facilitator of international recognition. Recent collaborators include Pacific Opera Victoria, Blue the UVic Bringing in the Bystanderprogram and the Tools For Change: Bridge Repertory Theatre, Crimson Coast Dance, UVic Phoenix Theatre, Canadian Sexualized Violence Prevention at UVic workshop. Additionally, she Pacific Ballet, Columbus Dance Theatre, Opera Columbus, and Ohio State University. leads a University-sponsored volunteer group in programming and Awarded his MFA Theatre Design (UVic) in 2017, he was sessional instructor there in coordinating events and campaigns with a focus on consent and 2018. Graham is a PhD Theatre History candidate at UVic and has been selected to relationship education. present and moderate as part of PQTalks at the 2019 Prague Quadrennial. Lauren Frost Graham McMonagle

Kathryn Shaw is the Artistic Director of , a position she has held since appeared in the films HOP THE TWIG, EDWEARD and THE SAME BOAT. 1985. She received her B.A. in Dramatic Art from Whitman College and an M.F.A Kathryn was honored in Toronto by Canadian Actors’ Equity Association with Life Membership in February 2016. in Acting from New York’s Columbia University School of Arts. She did further In 2010, Kathryn was listed by the Vancouver Sun as one of BC’s 100 Most Influential Women. The same year she physical theatre training with Monika Pagneux and Philippe Gaulier in France. For received the Career Achievement Award from the Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance and the ACCC Bronze over 30 years, Ms. Shaw has directed for theatre companies across Canada and Medal for Excellence in Teaching. In 2005, Kathryn was elected into the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame. She is a has taught acting for professional and community groups in British Columbia, recipient of the 1996 SAM PAYNE AWARD given by UBCP/ACTRA in recognition of “humanity, integrity and the and Halifax. Ms. Shaw’s most recent directorial work includes RICHARD encouragement of new talent.” She has served as the Festival Adjudicator for Theatre BC’s Mainstage 1991, 2004 III and MEASURE FOR MEASURE for Bard on the Beach and THE GOAT by Edward and 2014 as well as adjudicating regional festivals. Ms. Shaw has been nominated for four Jessie Richardson Albee for Presentation House Theatre and NUMBERS for Studio 58. She has Awards for her directing work and has received two Jessie Richardson Awards for Direction and Best Production.

Robinson Wilson is a director, lighting designer, fight Vancouver Island University, Theatre One, Touchstone/ Carousel, and this last summer, Arctic Action, as part choreographer among many other talents. His recent directorial of the Nord-Norges Festspillene Theatre Festival in Harstad, Norway. Stage Combat Guest Instructor credits: work includes Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (also Arctic Action (Norway), 360 STUNT (Copenhagen), and the Nordic Stage Fight Society (Stockholm). North adaptation) at Vancouver Island University, Once Upon a Mattress America: fight choreography and motion capture performance work for Final Fantasy: Kingsglaive, as well as for 3LD Productions, Apprentice Director at Bard on the Beach, over 50 theatrical productions. Awards: Theatre BC Mainstage for Best Actor, Best Lighting, and Outstanding for The Winter’s Tale, and most recently, Annie, for Rainbow Fight Choreography. Ongoing projects include Creative Consultation with Bard on the Beach for their 30th Youth Theatre’s 30th Anniversary season. Lighting Design: anniversary season production of Coriolanus, as well as Fight Director for the Howard Stage at Bard.

Carrera Schroeder has been involved in theatre as well as a Bachelor of Education from VIU. Carrera is an active member of Portal Players for over 20 years. She has been an actor, costume Dramatic Society. She is secretary for the PPDS Board of Directors, co-chair of the education and makeup designer, running crew, sound and light committee, and most recently she directed Little Shop of Horrors last fall. When not at the designer and operator, stage manager, and director. theatre Carrera is teaching students in the Alberni Valley. She loves to teach science, social Carrera has a Bachelor of Arts in Theater and History studies and language arts but mostly drama. She loves teaching drama.

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