"This Is A Play" Wins 2 Awards . . .
November 08, 2010 07:35 Filed in: Festival
On November 3, the cast and crew of the Portal Players production of Daniel MacIvor’s “This Is A Play” traveled to Qualicum to share their work at the Vancouver Island One Act Festival. It was instantly a Festival favourite and at the Awards banquet on November 7, received honours for Best Lead Actor in a Male Role to Elliot Drew and Best Lead Actor in a Female Role to Mary Ellen Shimell.
“This Is A Play” is an interesting sneak peek into the minds of actors as they badly perform a decidedly bad piece of theatre. Full of wonderful humour and characters everyone can relate to this is a great piece of Canadian theatre.
Director Teresa Drew has been working with her cast, which also includes Melissa Lowe as the young ingénue and Peter Wienold as the voice of the music, for the last month to prepare this piece for it big debut at the Village Theatre. “ It was wonderful to hear how the jurors love it and how they really appreciated our hard work” says Drew “But the best part was sitting in the audience as they laughed and applauded. That is the best pay off of all.”
Photo, after the awards ceremony at ECHO Players’ Village Theatre in Qualicum Beach. Left to right from back, Teresa Drew, director; Peter Wienold, voice of the composer; Elliot Drew, male actor; Yvette Deveau, stage manager; Jamie Del Rio, stage crew; Melissa Lowe, female actor; Mary Ellen Shimell, older female actor.
“This Is A Play” is an interesting sneak peek into the minds of actors as they badly perform a decidedly bad piece of theatre. Full of wonderful humour and characters everyone can relate to this is a great piece of Canadian theatre.
Photo, after the awards ceremony at ECHO Players’ Village Theatre in Qualicum Beach. Left to right from back, Teresa Drew, director; Peter Wienold, voice of the composer; Elliot Drew, male actor; Yvette Deveau, stage manager; Jamie Del Rio, stage crew; Melissa Lowe, female actor; Mary Ellen Shimell, older female actor.