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 ACToberFest 2009
Theatre BC's 3rd Annual One-Act Festival

Friday - Sunday, October 2nd- 4th, 2009
Creston, BC – Hosted by Footlighters

at the Prince Charles Auditorium
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Tickets $8.00 ea.
(available at festival registration desk at venue)

Performance Schedule /  Awards 


Thurs. Oct.1st

Meet-N-Greet :  8pm till Midnight
at The Snoring Sasquatch (221 11th Ave North)
This is a very informal affair for those who trickle in that first night.

Maps will be available upon check-in at the Downtowner Motor Inn.
Or follow this link to the Google Map >>>

List of Plays (alpha by title)

Black & Blue
by Ron Fromstein

Mojo Productions,
Nanaimo, BC

Special Merit Winner - Theatre BC's 19th Canadian National Playwriting Competition (2007). Tom has hit his wife and is stunned to realize what he has done. He takes the audience through the stages of guilt he faces as he tries to find a path back to resolve. 45 mins.
Fri.- 7:00 pm Venue B
Sat.- 9:00pm Venue B


Catch
by James McAndrew

Sweet Sorrow Productions,
Maple Ridge, BC

1-Act Winner - Theatre BC's 17th Canadian National Playwriting Competition (2005). Everyone has moments that they imagine differently. A girl and a boy play a dangerous game of Catch, forcing each other to face the truth. 45 mins.
Sat. - 4:00 pm Venue A
Sat.- 10:00 pm Venue A

Elevator
by Cherie Thiessen

Shu-String Theatre
Salmon Arm, BC
Two lonely old women meet for the first time in their highrise apartment elevator, and decide to turn same elevator into a Koffee and Kocktail Korner. This chance encounter turns chaotic, to say the least. 40 mins.
Fri.- 5:00 pm Venue B
Sat.- 6:00 pm Venue A

For A Moment
by Steffi Munshaw

591 Productions,
New Westminster, BC
A man wakes to finds himself in a forested glade and meets a young lady who brings more questions than answers but more light than shadows.... 45 mins.
Fri.- 8:00 pm Venue A
Sat.- 1:00 pm Venue B

No More Tomorrows
by Loretta Sheriff

Footlighters,
Creston, BC
A woman confronts the man who raped and then murdered her daughter. 30 mins.
Fri.- 4:00 pm Venue A
Sat. - 8:00 pm Venue A

Pat The Oilwife
by Cynthia Livingstone

Moment In Time Productions,
Dawson Creek, BC
Meet Pat the Oilwife. At 56, Pat senses it is time to make some changes in her life. Life in the Airstream just doesn't hold the allure it once did...a slice of oil patch life from the frontline. In a series of exchanges with 'the girls' in the same summer trailer park. Pat shares snippets of her past, her present and dares to speak aloud her longings for the future. A play not for the weak of heart - or bladder. 50 mins.
Fri.- 9:00 pm Venue B
Sat.- 3:00 pm Venue B


SUNDAY, Oct.4th

Coffee Critique- 9:00 am to 12:00 noon at Prince Charles Auditorium
 (
free admission)

Awards Luncheon- 12:30 pm at Rotocrest
at the Creston Rec Center,
230- 19th Ave.S. Creston
Tickets: $26.25 ea. (incl.GST) available at festival registration desk

 

Schedule (pdf) / Playbill / Awards 
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