TOUR
PRODUCTIONS We continued to embrace our company’s mandate to promote and develop Canadian and Indigenous stories with The Drowning Girls, The New Canadian Curling Club, and the abbreviated presentation of Café Daughter. Our world premiere of Canadian playwright Marcia Johnson’s Serving Elizabeth, a comedy-drama about colonialism and popular media, led to that play’s publication and several further planned productions. Unfortunately, the pandemic curtailed two more Canadian works: Chelsea Hotel: The Songs of Leonard Cohen and The Boy in the Moon.
members who would benefit from a more relaxed sensory experience and casual environment. With the advent of the Pandemic, WCT pivoted our offerings to virtual platforms. This started with the highly-successful livestream concert of Leonard Cohen songs performed by the Chelsea Hotel cast from the balconies of the Riverland Inn and Suites and continued through to our Stage One at-home series of educational videos, our “Until We Meet Again” promotion series of the best of world digital theatre, and on-line Artist Talks.
GLORY By Tracey Power
We finished the country-wide tour of GLORY, by Tracey Power – a tour that proved our resourcefulness, acumen at touring, and ability to tell a powerful, true-life Canadian story to a national audience. Through 2019, over 50,000 people enjoyed the production in 11 venues across B.C. and Canada.
Hamilton Family Theatre May 15 - June 8, 2019 Cambridge, ON Huron Country Playhouse II June 12 - 22, 2019 Grand Bend, ON King’s Wharf Theatre June 26 - July 6, 2019 Penetanguishene, ON
The Sound of Music ‘wow’-ed capacity audiences and set new box office records. It also furthered our goal of offering opportunities for young people to experience live theatre, with six young Kamloops-area performers in the cast and over 4,000 students in the audience. Plays such as Serving Elizabeth and Café Daughter not only tell great stories of significant national interest and importance to our audiences, but through their inclusivity and accessibility, they invite our audiences to share new ideas and look afresh at old ones as part of community conversations. We were particularly looking forward to presenting The Boy in the Moon and exploring expanded accessibility options, including a relaxed performance, to welcome audience
Drayton Festival Theatre July 10 - 20, 2019 Drayton, ON Thousand Islands Playhouse July 24 - August 17, 2019 Gananoque, ON Persephone Theatre September 25 - October 9, 2019 Saskatoon, SK
The cast of CHELSEA HOTEL: THE SONGS OF LEONARD COHEN, streaming from the Riverland Inn and Suites. Eventually reached 41,000 people!
The cast of GLORY. Photo by Ryan Alexander McDonald/Chicknskratch Productions. Director James MacDonald, Choreographer Tracey Power, Set & Lighting Designer Narda McCarroll, Costume Designer Cindy Wiebe, Sound Designer Steve Charles