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North Shore Zone Festival 2004

MONDAY, MAY 3rd to SATURDAY, MAY 8th
PLACE: Presentation House Theatre
North Vancouver, B.C.
HOSTED BY: North Shore Zone

Info: 604-990-3473

Line-up of plays  / Results

Each evening’s performance includes a brief public adjudication.
Adjudicator for the week is Nick Harrison

Line-up of Plays

Monday, May 3rd

Festival Fever by Darien Edgeler

presented by The Half-Stratford Players

Every year, dozens of theatre clubs around B.C. go toe-to-toe in adjudicated theatre festivals and attempt to earn the right to represent their region at a province-wide final called Mainstage. Enter J.T., an overly-sensitive security guard. Determined to make it to Mainstage, J.T. and his friends put together a production and enter it in their local festival of plays. Through its chronicling of the merry misadventures of J.T. and his ragtag band of misfits, Festival Fever offers a humorous perspective on the entire competitive theatre scene. And since it pokes fun at everything from Bard on The Beach to pretentious prima donnas, Fever is sure to delight those who can't stand the stage as much as it does theatre-lovers.
Directed by Jim Hebb.

Tuesday, May 4th

Maggie’s Getting Married by Norm Foster

presented by Theatre West Van

Maggie’s Getting Married takes place the night before the wedding of Maggie Duncan and Russell MacMillan. The setting is the Duncan family kitchen. In the next room, there is a small gathering of friends and relatives who have just come from the wedding rehearsal. Maggie is slightly insecure about her upcoming nuptials. Her older sister, Wanda has had quite a bit of experience with men and is more than willing to share her sage advice with Maggie. However, Wanda discovers, upon meeting Russell for the first time, that she knows the groom-to-be a little more intimately than she should.
Directed by Bill Elliott.

Wednesday, May 5th

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel

presented by Between Shifts Theatre Society

This powerful drama revolves around a bitter-tongued widow, her two daughters and an elderly mute boarder. The younger daughter has an intuitive gift for science. Encouraged by her teacher, she undertakes a gamma ray experiment with marigolds that wins a prize at her high school. Proud and yet jealous, too filled with her own bitterness and pain, the mother can only hurt when she needs to love and deride when she should offer praise. And yet, as the daughter’s experiment proves, something beautiful can emerge from even the most barren, afflicted soil.
Directed by Judi Price.

Thursday, May 6th

The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard

presented by Deep Cove Stage Society

The Real Thing is about love and infidelity, marriage and playwriting, and where among all of this can you find the real thing. The play takes place in the early '80's London suburbs where a famous playwright struggles to understand love, both in his writings and in his life. Stoppard’s cleverness with words will make you laugh and perhaps make you cry.
Directed by Barry Duffus.

Friday, May 7th

presented by North Vancouver Community Players

A poetic, rueful story about five unmarried sisters and a defrocked priest in the small Irish village of Ballybeg in 1936. A deftly structured memory piece as beautifully sad as it is charming. We encounter this quintet of flawed but engaging women at a turning point in their lives.
Directed by Paul Kloegman.

Saturday, May 8th

Rising Star Productions

Welcome ladies and gentleman to the final night of the North Shore Zone Festival 2004. We are extremely pleased to have Skyler Henderson returning with what we are sure to be another interesting production, Women Who Run With Pig Dogs. Three years ago Ms. Henderson stunned us with a bold and outgoing production that left audiences well...um... audiences left. We appreciate Ms. Henderson's uniqueness and brashness and hope you enjoy the next play in her feminist movement series: Women Who Run With Pig Dogs. Michael P. Northey’s acerbic wit takes full form in this revised version of the popular fringe show This Festival Show Is Now Being Held Hostage as an unpredictable journey into the electric-shock comedy. When two guys take control of theatre anything can and will happen. Sit back and try to relax. After tonight the festival will never be the same! Directed by Tim Cadeny.

Awards. After an intermission, Adjudicator Nicholas Harrison will announce his choice of awards in various categories, as well as the winning production to go forward to the provincial MAINSTAGE festival in Kamloops during the week of July 2-10, 2004. The People’s Choice Awards for Outstanding Production, Outstanding Performance and Outstanding Achievement in Design as well as special Zone Awards will also be presented.

The evening will conclude with the Closing Night Party in the theatre and lobby of Presentation House.

Results

Best Overall Production: Dancing at Lughnasa North Vancouver Community Players
Sponsored by North Shore News

Best Achievement by a Director: Judi Price, The Effect of Gamma Rays on                                                           Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Between Shifts Theatre
Sponsored by First Associates Investments Inc.

Best Overall Achievement in Design: The Real Thing, Deep Cove Stage Society
Sponsored by Dermal Laser Centre

Best Performance by an Actor - Female: Megan Fletcher, The Effect of Gamma Rays on                                                                  Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Sponsored by North Vancouver Community Players

Best Performance by an Actor - Male: F. Braun McAsh, The Real Thing, Deep Cove Stage  Sponsored by Deep Cove Stage Society

Best Performance by a Supporting Actor - Female: Nancy Ebert, Maggie's Getting Married,                                                                                     Theatre West Van
Sponsored by Theatre West Van

Best Performance by a Supporting Actor - Male: Michael Schaldemose, Festival Fever,                                                                                    The Half Stratford Players
Sponsored by Lonsdale & 19th Medical Clinic

Best Achievement in Set Design: Barry Thomas, Maggie's Getting Married, Theatre W.Van
Sponsored by HSBC Bank Canada (North Shore Branches)

Best Achievement in Costumes: Lynn Wong, The Effect of ...Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Sponsored by Well Planned Theatre Company

Best Achievement in Lighting: Michael Schaldemose, Maggie's Getting Married
Sponsored by Scotiabank & Trust

Best Achievement in Sound: Lana McCormick, The Real Thing
Sponsored by Tip Top Collision Ltd.

Special Adjudicator's Awards of Excellence:

Stage Fight Choreography: Darien Edgeler and Damon Calderwood, Festival Fever, The Half Stratford Players

Creating an original work: Darien Edgeler, Festival Fever, The Half Stratford Players

Backstage Cooperation Award presented by Festival Technician Michael Schaldemose:
Maggie's Getting Married, Theatre West Van

North Shore Zone Awards:

Don Marsh Award (for creating a spirit of harmony amongst groups on the North Shore):  
John McGie

Unsung Hero Award in Memory of Jim Brick: Pat Garland, Deep Cove Stage Society

Florence Goodwin Theatre Award for the Most Promising Newcomer (with a monetary value of $200 to be applied to theatre development):
Megan Fletcher, The Effect of ...Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

People's Choice Awards:

Outstanding Production: Festival Fever , The Half Stratford Players

Outstanding Performance: Nancy Ebert, Maggie's Getting Married, Theatre West Van

Outstanding Achievement in Design: Barry Thomas, Maggie's Getting Married

Zone Festivals are held in each of Theatre BC’s Zones throughout the spring, leading to the annual provincial MAINSTAGE theatre festival. Productions from each Zone Festival will participate as a "Best Production" or "Workshop Play" at Theatre BC's Mainstage 2004 in Kamloops, B.C., July 2-10, 2004

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