NEXT MEETING: AGM & Social
Saturday June 1 at 2 pm — 3412 Cariboo Ave (off Toba)
Annual General Meeting, social and pot luck to follow. All members (and potential memebers) welcome. If you need to update your membership before the meeting please contact me, and I will set Barb on you.
If the weather is nice we will be outdoors, so bring a lawn chair if you can.
We need board members. Our current board has been slogging through the Covid years and we need a break! If you can help please email to let us know your interest.
At that meeting it would be great to decide what kind of production we will be doing this season, if we will do a "all community members welcome" Pantomime, or opt for a comedy/drama/mystery. (John Spurway's "Grounded" is a great play we nearly produced a few years ago.) We need to secure space at the Evergreen Theatre for the spring, as there are a lot more requests for stage time than before. We still have time to apply for a City Arts Grant (deadline September 1-15) for a gift in kind for the use of the Evergreen Theatre.
Want to help but can’t attend? Email us at [email protected]
Hope to see you all there.
cheers
Nicole Narbonne
Current (but retiring) President of Theatre Now
Annual General Meeting, social and pot luck to follow. All members (and potential memebers) welcome. If you need to update your membership before the meeting please contact me, and I will set Barb on you.
If the weather is nice we will be outdoors, so bring a lawn chair if you can.
We need board members. Our current board has been slogging through the Covid years and we need a break! If you can help please email to let us know your interest.
At that meeting it would be great to decide what kind of production we will be doing this season, if we will do a "all community members welcome" Pantomime, or opt for a comedy/drama/mystery. (John Spurway's "Grounded" is a great play we nearly produced a few years ago.) We need to secure space at the Evergreen Theatre for the spring, as there are a lot more requests for stage time than before. We still have time to apply for a City Arts Grant (deadline September 1-15) for a gift in kind for the use of the Evergreen Theatre.
Want to help but can’t attend? Email us at [email protected]
Hope to see you all there.
cheers
Nicole Narbonne
Current (but retiring) President of Theatre Now
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Theatre Now! is a small but creative amateur theatre company at the top of the Sunshine Coast in south western BC, Canada in the city of Powell River.
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Since its inception in January 1994 Theatre Now! has maintained its truly 'community theatre' focus, seeking to involve a large segment of the community in its activities, and playing in sites as varied as schools, community halls, resort hotels, the street, Belfry Theatre (Victoria), farmer's market, the Moose Hall, museum, parks and playgrounds, the seashore, malls, Evergreen Theatre, restaurants, and even once in Wal-Mart! At conferences, drama festivals, street festivals, Japanese New Year, dinner theatre, Earth Day.
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Theatre Now! has enthusiastically participated in a variety of theatre genres including one, two and three act plays, improv, skits, pantomimes, puppets, murder mysteries, and theatre sports. Actors from 8 years old to 70 years old (hundreds of actors and backstage crews altogether) including people of all abilities have been welcomed. A few of the plays we did had casts of over 30. And we have done plays written by a local playwrights, Ted Durnin, Hilary Bruhn, Tricia Andrews and more; pantomimes by Vancouver writer, Ellie King, and skits by a Sechelt playwright, Betty Keller, as well as by well known playwrights Harold Pinter, Shakespeare, and Agatha Christie.
We owe our success to several factors. We have striven to maintain an inclusive philosophy and approach -- whoever wanted to join, we would find a role or a job for them. And our decision making has been by consensus. We are not a registered society and have no formal structure (we originally voted Paul Wiltse to be our President and Tina Thompson our Treasurer, only because Theatre B.C., of which we are members, requires these positions on the application form!).
We owe our success to several factors. We have striven to maintain an inclusive philosophy and approach -- whoever wanted to join, we would find a role or a job for them. And our decision making has been by consensus. We are not a registered society and have no formal structure (we originally voted Paul Wiltse to be our President and Tina Thompson our Treasurer, only because Theatre B.C., of which we are members, requires these positions on the application form!).
Our founding members Brin Wilson, Tina Thompson, Susan Dixon, and Paul Wiltse, were vital to the company. An inspiration and strong supporter, Martin Rossander, was actor, millwright, stores clerk, inventor, musician, and all round helper in many of our activities. Walter Martella has been Music Director in several productions; Daniela D'Onofrio and Mary Tamasik choreographers.
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Our plays have been directed by Susan Jersak, Paul McIsaac, Hilary Bruhn, Nicole Narbonne, Paul Wiltse, Tina Thompson, Ted Durnin, Tricia Andrews, and Alistair Edinborough.
We are open to theatre wherever we find it. We have co-hosted events with Ravens' Call Theatre, the Rock Island Players, the Townsite Heritage Society, Powell River District Library and inclusion Powell River.
We are open to theatre wherever we find it. We have co-hosted events with Ravens' Call Theatre, the Rock Island Players, the Townsite Heritage Society, Powell River District Library and inclusion Powell River.