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December 17, 2010: Seussical, the Family play, sells out For the first time
ever, a production could put up the SOLD OUT sign ten
days before the first performance. (Sold out houses are not
rare at Kanata Theatre, but selling out a whole production
in advance is unusual!) |
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Jim Holmes,
long-time member who has directed (and acted in)
many productions for Kanata Theatre, received the Capital
Critics Circle's For an article about the award, please see CCCaward (by kind permission of EMC and the writer, Tiffany Williams-Lepack) For information about the production, please see http://www.kanatatheatre.com/2009/pants/default.htm and http://www.kanatatheatre.com/Archive/prods/201005.htm
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Photo: EMC staff writer Tiffany Williams-Lepack (with permission) |
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December 7, 2009: KT Youth assists at a fund-raiser At a dinner
honouring Councillor
Marianne Wilkinson for her 40 years in politics,
three members of Kanata Theatre's KYOS (Kanata Youth On
Stage) performed their version of Romeo and Juliet, with the
Councillor in the title role. Proceeds will go towards
setting up youth facilities at the Kanata North Recreation
Centre. Please see
Cast and
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August 9, 2009: KT loses its founder Kanata Theatre
members were saddened to learn of the death, on August 8th,
of its founder, Mary Mauger. It was Mary who, in 1968, put
"An invitation to all ham
actors" in the Kanata Standard which led to the formation of
the Kanata Theatre Group (see
startup). |
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July 1, 2009: KT opens box office during summer For the first time
ever, Kanata Theatre will open the Box Office ticket window
on Saturday mornings in July and August. Eufron Williams,
Board member for Box Office, said that this would assist
those people who wanted to consider their options for
seasons tickets in person. |
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May 31, 2009: KT members elect 2009-2010 Directors At the June General
Meeting, the members of Kanata Theatre elected their
Board of Directors for the
2009-2010 season. The members also heard from the artistic
directors of the plays for the forthcoming season, and were
entertained by a composite video of last season's
activities, composed by Andrew Williams. |
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May/June 2009: The Legion recognizes Kanata Theatre The May/June issue of Legion Magazine (the
magazine of the Royal Canadian Legion) has a long article on
community and amateur theatre companies. There is a
description of Kanata Theatre, the Ron Maslin Playhouse and
their history, and the article is headed by a photo of
You'll Get Used To It - The War Show, the 2005 Kanata
Theatre production directed by Jim Holmes. |
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22-23 May, 2009: KT-Kids present Honk! Junior The KT-Kids (that is,
a company of the children of active Kanata Theatre members)
presented two public performances of
Honk! Junior.
Although the KT-Kids have produced shows previously (for
example, Disney's
101 Dalmations Kids) for presentation to parents and
friends, this is the first time that they have given
performances to a paying audience. |
 Ugly & Ducklings  Squadron of geese, Group-Captain Greylag |
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13-17 May, 2009: 2009 Theatre Ontario Festival at the RMP Four plays were
presented by four community theatre groups on four
successive evenings at the Ron Maslin Playhouse. Each play
came from a different region of Ontario, and each had been
chosen by an adjudicator as being the best in its region.
Kanata Theatre, Theatre Ontario and Eastern Ontario Drama
League were co-hosts, with KT people organizing the
infrastructure for the
Festival and assisting each company in setting up and
running its show. The
Festival included short and long adjudications,
workshops, a staged reading of a new play, and an awards
brunch. |
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29 April 2009: Question and Answer sessions after performances Kanata Theatre
introduced question-and-answer sessions for the audience
following performances of
Scotland Road. After each
performance there was an announcement that those who wished
could stay in their seats and question the actors and
director about the play. Each evening, most of the audience
chose to stay. Questions ranged from "What does it mean?" to
"Was there really a Scotland Road?" (and the
answer to that is "Yes"). |
 The Woman and John Jacob Astor |
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November 2008:
The Seagull wins
CCC award |
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October 2008:
KT members
nominated for Capital Critics Circle awards Best
Director (community): Jim Holmes, The Seagull.
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September 16 to 27, 2008: Leading LadiesMany performances were
SOLD-OUT! And there was a standing ovation for every
performance except one. |
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June 2008: Little Lost Bicycle Is this your bike? It has appeared just outside the foyer of the Ron Maslin Playhouse, chained to a tree. It looks very lonely, and it needs some care. If you recognize it, could you please see that it gets home?
NEWS FLASH - June 5
- This afternoon, the bicycle was released
from bondage and set free by a young man and woman. We trust
the bike got home, or at least went to a loving household. |
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June 2008: Kanata Theatre June General Meeting Sunday June 1, 7:30 pm in the Ron Maslin Playhouse City of Ottawa residents interested in becoming members of Kanata Theatre should join us for our year-end wrap-up and to learn about our exciting 40th season and its various volunteer opportunities. Have you ever wanted to construct or paint a set? Apply make-up or sew a costume? Design the lighting or the sound? Ever wanted to try acting? There is something for
everyone at Kanata Theatre! |
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May 2008
Kanata
Theatre continues its work in The aim of the City of Ottawa program was to
get people involved in beautifying their community, making
neighbourhoods and open public spaces, greener, cleaner and
more appealing places to live, work and play. The program
awarded funding to community organizations, service groups,
business improvement associations and non-profit
organizations for new, one-time innovative and sustainable
clean and green projects throughout Ottawa. |
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KT members nominated for Capital Critics Circle awards Three of our members have been nominated for
the annual English-language theatre awards for plays
presented in Ottawa during the 2006-2007 season. Best
Director: Rosemary Keneford, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Best Actor: Dorothy Beak as Alice in Happy Birthday Dear
Alice. Best Actor: Brooke Keneford as Big Daddy, Cat
on a Hot tin Roof. |
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October 2007: Kanata Theatre member receives award On Thursday, October 4, 2007 Joy Forbes received the “Leadership in the Arts” award given by the National Arts Centre at the Teacher Information Night. Joy was nominated by Shelley Smith-Dale, the Arts consultant at the Ottawa Catholic School Board. The Leadership in the Arts Award recognizes generalist teachers who provide an outstanding arts education program (in Music, Theatre, Visual Arts and Dance). This award is open to all teachers in the National Capital Region. Joy involves her classes, her whole school (St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Barrhaven), parents and the community in all her theatrical and musical presentations, as well as sharing her considerable expertise with teachers in the Ottawa area. |
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June 2007: Kanata Theatre gives high school awardsEach year, Kanata Theatre donates a cash award
to a drama student at
each of the six local secondary schools. The recipients are
chosen by the Drama department of each school. We want to
recognize the contribution that drama students make to the
life of the school. The awards also provide an opportunity
to show Kanata Theatre's interest in the community. |
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June 2007: Kanata Theatre joins Green Partnership Program The City of Ottawa has a Green Partnership
Program, which encourages organizations to "clean and green"
public spaces. Kanata Theatre joined this program by
creating flower beds alongside the Ron Maslin Playhouse. The
city contributes to the cost of the plants: Kanata Theatre
provides the volunteer labour. Look for the new flower beds,
created by member Ann Williams, next time you visit the
Playhouse. |
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November 2006: Kanata Theatre wins two awards Kanata Theatre won two awards from the Capital Critics Circle. The production of Noises Off by Michael Frayn, directed by Brooke Keneford, won the Best Community Theatre Production award. Beverley Brooks won the Best Actor (Community) award for her performance in The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh, which was directed by Gwen Knight.
November 2006: Kanata Theatre nominated for Critics awards For the Love of it. They say that when you do something “for the love of it”, it shows. Those that create the magic that is Kanata Theatre are proof of just that. Operating solely on the efforts of 250 volunteers, this theatre, well into its 38th season, is thrilled to be nominated for 3 Critics' circle awards in the community theatre category: Brooke Keneford for Best Director for Noises Off; Noises Off for Best Production; and Beverley Brooks as Best Actor in The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Award announcements will be made November 27. While theatre members are pleased to have the critics' attention, they are even more appreciative and attentive to the feedback that they receive from their audiences. If ever climbing attendance and sold out performances are any indication, the passion that has always inspired this group to the highest level of excellence is alive and strong. FLASH!
November 27: Noises Off did win the Best Production
award: Beverley Brooks won the Best Actor award. |
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October 2006: Kanata Theatre members active in Rural Root Rural Root Theatre will be presenting
Silver Dagger by David French, directed by Valerie
Jorgensen, on Wednesday October 18th through
Saturday October 21st. Curtain is 8.00 p.m. and
the production will be held at the Constance Buckham’s Bay
Community Centre. |
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September 2006: Hearing Assistance for our Patrons Kanata Theatre is proud to announce the availability of the PhonicEar OnWave hearing assistance system. Small clip-on receivers permit control over listening volume levels. These units are available from the cloak room with regular headsets (or you may use your own headset with 3.5mm jack, if you prefer) or T-Switch hearing aid loops. We hope to offer advance booking of the units later this year. Please let us know how we can help. |
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June 2006: Beautifying the PlayhouseA bed of potentilla has replaced a patch of grass and weeds near the front doors of the Ron Maslin Playhouse. As part of the plan for beautifying the city, Ottawa paid for the materials and Kanata Theatre put in the labour. The project was designed by Ann Williams.
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June 3, 2006: Playwright visits Kanata Theatre Joan Burrows, the author of Staff Room, visited Kanata Theatre and enjoyed the final night (one of many sold-out performances) of our production of her play. She is seen here with Jim Holmes, the director.
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March 28 to April 8, 2006: Enchanted AprilMany performances were
SOLD-OUT ! And there were standing ovations. |
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April 8, 2006: The KT KIDS performanceThe KT KIDS are a group of children of
Kanata Theatre members. They have been attending Saturday
morning sessions organized by members Andrew Williams and
Kareen Lively. On April 8, as part of the last session of
this season, they presented CSI: Story-land, an
original script (which had a slight connection to the
fairy-tale of the Three Little Pigs) developed by the group.
The audience at the Ron Maslin Playhouse, consisting of parents and other Kanata
Theatre members, certainly enjoyed the production (see
KT-Kids) |
Officers Logan (Cameron Lively) and Mitchel (Kaitlin Williams) interview Miss Cochon (Kaylie Bourk-Wilson) |
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February 26, 2006: CHEO fundraiserKanata Theatre presented two numbers ("Making a Dragon" and "Revenge") from The Dragonslayers as part of a fundraiser for CHEO, the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, organized by the Ottawa Music Acadeny and Kanata Music Academy. |
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January 31 to February 11, 2006: Noises OffAll ten performances were
SOLD-OUT ! |
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December 17 - 29, 2005: The DragonslayersWe had six
SOLD-OUT performances plus a colour photo taking up
almost half the front page of the Kanata Kourier-Standard! |
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June 29, 2005: Kanata Theatre gives high school awardsEach year, Kanata Theatre gives awards at local high schools. One Drama award was at the Earl of March Secondary School. |
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June 2005: Some members have turned professional!Some members have enjoyed amateur theatre so much that they decided to work in professional theatre. This article appeared in several local newspapers. |
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June 2005: Summer PlayreadingDuring the summer, playreading at Kanata Theatre takes place in the homes of individual members. As well as the pleasure of reading, this helps us consider plays that might be performed at Kanata Theatre. For further information, and to get the names of the host for each session, please email or call the Director of Plays at 271-1777. The plays and dates for 2005 are:
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5 June 2005: Kanata Theatre honours its founderAt the Annual General Meeting on June 5th, Kanata Theatre honoured its founder, Mary Mauger, by presenting her with a plaque and a Certificate of Lifetime Membership. Mary was also given Membership Badge no. 0001. It was Mary's initiative that created the group that rapidly became Kanata Theatre. |
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20 May 2005: Tony Bryant honouredA section of the Trans-Canada Trail between Stittsville and Carleton Place was dedicated in the name of Tony Bryant, a former member. |
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15 November 2004: Kanata Theatre director wins award Rosemary Keneford, director of Kanata Theatre's production of Over the River and Through the Woods by Joe DiPietro, has been given the Best Director (Community) award, by the Capital Critics Circle. This play, which was on stage at the Ron Maslin Playhouse in March 2003, had previously won the Eastern Ontario Drama League's award for Best Production and was taken to the festival for all of Ontario, at Sault Ste. Marie. Last year, the Capital Critics Circle award for Best Director (Community) was given to Kanata Theatre's Gwen Knight for her direction of The Snow Ball by A.R. Gurney, which opened at the Ron Maslin Playhouse on May 28, 2003. |
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14 July 2004: Kanata Theatre plays host to young children Members of Kanata Theatre took groups of children from the Kanata Research Park Day Care on a tour through the Ron Maslin Playhouse, showing them everything from the public foyer to all the backstage facilities. The guides told the children the history of Kanata Theatre and the playhouse, and how and why things happen in theatre. The children were able to put on hats to represent various characters, and to perform short skits on stage. The hats themselves represented the history of Kanata Theatre, ranging from Antigone (produced in 1976) through Choice for the Future (1984) to Aladdin (last Christmas). More information appears in the article by Katie Mulligan in the Kanata Kourier-Standard for July 16, 2004. |
