MAINSTAGE ‘93 brings
together the best community
theatre productions from
throughout the province, as
‘adjudicated at zone festivals
that took. place earlier this
year.

us the best

The provincial festival,
hosted by the North Shore
zone of Theatre BC, takes
place from Saturday, June 26
to Saturday, July 3, and of-
fers registrants not only a
chance to view Theatre BC's

pick of the 10 best amateur
theatre productions in the
province, but also an oppor-
tunity to participate in
hands-on workshops with
theatre professionals, and to
sit in on scene development

THEATRE BC/MAINSTAGE °93 WISH TO THANK THE
FOLLOWING FOR THEIR GENEROUS ASSISTANCE

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Columbia, through the
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generous assistance of
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Congratulations,
Theatre B.C.

on your

60th Anniversary Festival

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We gratefully acknowledge
B the assistance of the North
Shore Atts Commission
and the Bizancial suppont of
the City of North
Vancouver, the District of
North Vancouver and the
District of West Vancouver,

in al

workshops to witness the
before/after effect of
workshopping a play.

Honorary chairperson for
the event will be BCTV news
anchor Tony Parsons, who
has been a strong supporter
of community theatre for
many years.

Parsons will open the
event al the president's
reception on Saturday, June
26, welcoming repre-
sentatives irom all levels of
government, as well as
many professional theatre
people who began their ca-
teers in local amateur
theatre groups.

Adjudicating the festival,
the biggest ever held in B.C.,
will be Jackie Maxwell, ar-
tistic director of the Factory
Theatre in Toronto.

Followirig each evening of
theatre at the festival, au-
dience members, cast, crew,
staff and volunteers are in-
vited to enjoy good com-
pany, good food and a
telaxing atmosphere to share
friendships and ideas, and
unwind after the excitement
of the day at the ‘green

Photo Jack Dietrich

THE FESTIVAL'S best
production of 1983
featured John Gilliland
and Lina de Guevava.

Two plays

BESIDES THE 10 plays in
competition, twa plays have
been selected to be
workshopped during the
Mainstage festival.

Each of these two plays
will give an initial perfor-
mance, which is then re-
worked for a day by a pro-
fessional director.

The play is then perform-
ed again in its revised form
in a fascinating and educa-
tional before and after pro-
cess.

The workshop director for
Mainstage ‘93 is Duncan
Fraser, associate artistic
director for Fend Players.

Volunteers ar

KINSTAG

Cynthia Bunbury, co-chair.
organizing committee chair,
public and media relations;

Gillian Santo, co-chair,
organizing committee chair,
hospitality;

Susan Simmons, treasurer
and secretary;

Anne Marsh, Mien van

Heek and Terry Robbins,
sponsorship and advertising;

Francesca Vivanti,
special workshops;

Dorothy Jenkins,
facilities liaison;

Michael Smith,
technical liaison;

Ann Booth,
accommodation liaison;

Carolyn Rundell,
desktop publisher;

Dale Clark, graphic designer.

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Huge Pickett, celebrity
auction appraiser;
James Barber, auctioneer;
Tony Parsons,
honorary chair;

room” in Cheers Restaurant.

Eight-, four- and three-day
registration packages for the
festival ate available. For
more information, call or fax
the Mainstage '93 office at

ateur theatre

984-9798.

Tickets for evening per-
formances may be purchas-
ed from the Centennial
Theatre box office by calling
984-4484.

Britain — ‘most recently in
Cyrano de Bergerac for the
Richmond Gateway and
New Bastion Theatres, and

Much Ado About Nothing,
Macbeth and Pygmalion for

We

DUNCAN FRASER

Fraser has appeared on
stages across Canada, in the
U.S., South America and

the Vancouver Playhouse
Theatre Company.

Fraser was artistic director
of the Nanaimo Festival,
where he commissioned;
dramaturged and/or directed
original Canadian works.

He has twice served as ad-
judicator for Theatre BC
zone festivals and has been
a juror for the Canadian Na-
tional Playwriting. Competi-
tion.

e the backbone of festival

Barry Duffus,
sponsorship consultant;

Joyce Geisler,
promotions consultant;

Jim Harding, Theatre BC
executive director.

Robb Mowbray, president;

George Young, first
vice-president;

Kevin Truscott, second
vice-president;

Merry Hallsor, past president;

Doug Venables,
secretary-treasurer;

Maev Brennan,
recording-secretary;

Sheila Coultish and Glenn

Higdon, directors-at-large;

Marty Duffy and Jim Warne,
zone chair representatives;

Jim Harding,
executive director.

Mien van Heek, Anne

Marsh, James Bowlby, Jay
Norton, Bill Langlois, Bert and
Anne Hornby.

Marty Duffy, Central Interior;
Christine Egerton Ball,
Fraser Valley;
Jim Warne, Kootenay;
Wilf Caron, North Island;
Rita Weakes, North Shore;
Lorriane Allum, Okanagan;
John Barry, Peace River;
Ralph Troschke, Skeena;
Rauni Ollikainen,
South Island;
Gwen Crowe, Vancouver.

Id, Jennie Ashton,
Elinor Bunbury, Kathleen
Denkewalter, Mary Caple,
Win Clamp, Roberta Clark,
Cliff Cox, Margaret Dean, Barb ©
Ouffus, Pat Edwards, Jenny
Feenan, Laurie Findlay, Sheryl
Greenfield, Winston
Gutkowski, Jack Jung, Lori
Kay, Maggie Kolodziej, Ann
Macklem, Donna Mailey,
Dave McIntosh, Kori North-
rup, Faye Perkins, Hanna
Skapski, Eileen Smith, Erica
Stafford, Lorne Topham, Barry
Walker, Rita Weakes, Chris
Woolfe, and Helen Yang,