Da wins N. Shore festival

NORTH Vancouver
Community Players
were the big winners at
the Festival of Plays
held at Presentation
House May 8-13.

Besides several individual
awards, the Players produc-
tion of Da by Hugh Leonard
will now represent the North
Shore Zone at Theatre B.C."s
Mainstage, the drama festival
which encompasses winning
groups from throughout B.C.
and the Yukon, to be held this
year in: Ladner during the
week July 1-8.

Da will get a reprise per-
formance run at Presentation
House June 29-July 1

Festival awards presented
by adjudicator Dean Paul

. Gibson were:

@ Best Overall Production

. {sponsored ‘by Duffus Sales

-Ltd.) — Da, North
Vancouver _ Community
Players;

‘s. ‘Best. Achievement by a
Director — Barry Duffus, Da,
North Vancouver Community
Players; -

2M Best Overall Achievement

/in’ Design’ — Da, North
Vancouver -
Players;
Best’ Performance by an
Actor, Female -—— Rosemary
Kiassen, Snowange, Theatre
West Van;

Best Performance by an

Community.

Actor, Male — Mark Gash
and Dave McelIntosh, Da,
North Vancouver Community
Players;

@ Best Performance by a
Supporting Actor, Female —
Chnstie Caine, Escape From
Happiness, Presentation
House Productions; ,

@ Best Performance by
Supporting Actor, Male —
Damon Calderwood, Nuts,
North Vancouver Community
Players;

@ Best Achievement in Set
Design — Barry Thomas,
Snowangel and The Dock
Brief, Theatre West Van;

@ Best Achievement in
Costumes (sponsored by Well
Planned Theatre Company)
— A Delicate Balance,
Between Shifts Theatre;

@ Best Achievement in
Lighting and Sound —
Michael Schaldemose and
Anne Marsh, Snowangel and
The Dock Brief, Theatre West
Van;

@ Certificate of Achievement
for Encouraging Growth and
Challenge— A Delicate
Balance, Between Shifts
Theatre;

M§ Certificate of Achievement
in Working Together as an
Ensemble — .Nuts, North
Vancouver - Community
Players;

® Certificate of Achievement
for a Significant Achievement
in Direction and Encouraging
Risk -- Rita  Weakes,

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Snowangel, Theatre West Van.
A Backstage Cooperation
Award was presented by festi-
val technician = Michael
Schaldemose and went to the
North Vancouver Community
Players production of Nuts.

North Shore Zone Awards
were also presented.

The Don Marsh Award
awarded “for creating a spirit
of harmony amongst groups
on the North Shore” went to
Kathy Daniels of the Between
Shifts Theatre in Squamish.

The Florence Goodwin
Theatre Award for the most
promising newcomer (and
$200 to be applied to theatre
development) went to Troy
Martell, who was a member of
the Da company.

Tara Kobewka of Deep
Cove Stage was awarded The
Unsung Hero Award in mem-
ory of Jim Brick.

Audience members at the
festival had a chance to vote
on the People’s Choice
Awards. They were:
| Most Outstanding
Production — Da, North
Vancouver Community
Players;

a Most Outstanding
Performance  — Dave
McIntosh, Da, North
Vancouver Community
Players;
a Most Outstanding
Achievement in Design — A
Delicate Balance, Between
Shifts Theatre.

— Martin Millerchip

THE North Vancouver
Museum and Archives
Commission will receive a
$150,000 British Columbia
2000 CommunitySpirit
grant to help with the
Victory Skip Memorial
Project.

The grant will help retrieve
the engine and a portion of
the stern from the Cape
Breton, a ship that served in
the final year of the Second
World War.

In September, the ship will

Wednesday, May 31, 2000 —- North Shore News - 13

War ship bits to be preserved

be sunk as a dive site off

Gabriola Island.

“Eo am delighted = the
province is joining with the
city to preserve that tangible
reminders of our community's
preud shipbuilding heritage
on our new waterfront, where
so much of the original action
took place,” said = North
Vancouver City Mayor
Barbara Sharp. “It is gratifi-
ing when combined efforts
are rewarded with such a pos-
itive result.”

Said Robin Inglis, museum
director, “Because of this sup-
port we can celebrate the
memory of those who built
and sailed these ships to win
the war. It’s a story rooted in
this community and one we
should be sharing with our
children.” British Columbia
2000 CommunitySpirit grants
help governments and non-
profit societies mark the mil-
lennium in a special way.
Funding assists projects that
celebrate the past or future.

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