By Battlefords Community Players

TheatreFest 2017 is All Canadian

Apr 21, 2017 | 10:12 AM

The 83rd Theatre Saskatchewan Inc. competitive provincial community theatre festival kicks off Monday, April 24 and continues through to Saturday, April 29th with 6 shows, 3 comedies and 3 dramas.

All shows are being held at the Dekker Centre with the host Battlefords Community Players opening the festival with their production “Of The Fields, Lately” Monday evening, curtain 7:30pm.

The week continues with Cochin Community Players, “Hilda’s Yard” on Tuesday, Tale Spinner Theatre, “Mary’s Wedding” on Wednesday, Melfort Amateur Dramatics, “The Love List” on Thursday, Regina Little Theatre “Vimy” on Friday.

The festival concludes on Saturday with Swift Current Little Theatre “Skin Fleck” and the presentation of awards. Last year at TheatreFest 2016 – our own BCP brought home Best Production, Best Visual, Best Actor and Best Director, be there to see who wins this year.

Participants and patrons have the opportunity to attend adjudication workshop by Will Brooks daily from 9:30am – 11:30am. Groups come to share their work and learn from the experience and 20 apprentices from clubs across the province spend the week learning and sharing. The apprentice program is funded by Theatre Saskatchewan through funding from Sask. Culture.

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Please join us and our sponsors as we celebrate theatre in Saskatchewan and the work of Canadian playwrights. Festival sponsor is The Battlefords Hotels Association, Innovation Credit Union in the green room sponsor and shows sponsors are River Valley Eye Care, Hein Financial Groups, Silvester Glass & Aluminum Products and Silvester RV Centre, Lakeland Veterinary Services, Discovery Co-Op and BATC Community Development Corporation are Battlefords Community Players corporate sponsor.

Theatre is alive and well in Saskatchewan and the Battlefords. See you at the theatre.