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PAST CREDITS
Welcome to our past credits section. Here you
will find summary lists of recent artistic seasons, past productions,
and community building projects. In addition, you'll see a
summary list of our Victoria based projects.
2005-2006 Artistic Season Summary
Celebrate World Theatre Day with Origins Theatre Projects
March 27 2006, and with the GVPTA on Granville Island
Free!
To celebrate World Theatre Day, Origins supports a scholarship prize for
UBC’s playwrighting program as part of UBC’s Brave New Playwrights.
Call for Submissions
Gordon Armstrong Playwrights Rent Award 2006
accepted applications March 15th 2006.
This program continues to be available for playwrights throughout B.C.
The Gordon Armstrong Playwright’s Rent Award presentation was presented at the
Jessies Nomination party in May. Lucia Fragione was the recipient this year.
Playreadings:
Last year we focused on public development of new projects including a workshop
production of the BC historical play Ginger Goodwin by renowned playwright
Bryan Wade, featuring a cast of ten.
This event was presented for free at the Dorothy Somerset
Studio at UBC and donations were gratefully accepted.
We also presented readings for the membership of projects in development
and under consideration for production in future seasons.
We also further established new producing ties with the University of British
Columbia. We looked to collaborate with past partners in Victoria as a
means of extending our work.
Literacy Project Staged Reading:
We presented in association with Tickle Trunk Players the
literacy play Poetic License. This show was a particular
success and was presented for free for 400 students at Lord
Roberts Elementary School this past season.
Origins Theatre Projects serves our community. We offer discounted and
free tickets available to social services agencies. We also offer theatre
workshops, and collaboration and support for independent projects. Send
us an email outlining your organization, and the request.
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Origins Theatre Projects Society
Artistic Season
Calendar of Events 2004-2005
Ginger Goodwin, New Play Artistic Development-
Ongoing thru the season
Play reading Series—Community Service
Events
Open for anyone to participate
Kits Neighbourhood House, fall 2004
Free Admission Total: 21
Beggars At the Waters Of Immortality,
Preproduction, Fall 2004
Beggars At the Waters Of Immortality, PRODUCTION, January
2005
All Performances at Pacific Theatre, 12th
and Hemlock, Vancouver
Preview Dress, Thursday January 13thth 8pm, Admission Free
by Donation
Opening Performance, Friday, January 14th,
all shows 8pm unless noted otherwise
Performance Two, Saturday January 15th, 2pm Matinee
Performance Three, Saturday, January 15th,
Performance Four, Tuesday, January 18th
Performance Five, Wednesday, January 19th
Performance Six, Thursday, January, 20th
Performance Seven Friday January 21st
Performance Eight, Saturday, January, 22nd, 2pm Matinee
Performance Nine, Saturday, January, 22nd
Performance Ten, Tuesday, January 25th
Performance Eleven, Saturday, January 26th,
Performance Twelve, Tuesday, January 27th
Performance Thirteen, Wednesday, January 28th
Performance Fourteen Thursday, January, 29th, 2pm Matinee
Performance Fifteen Friday January 29th
This production included availability for discounted and
free tickets for students, limited wage earners,
STORYTELLING
Mr. Mr
Kits Neighbourhood House Winter Festival
Featured Presentation
Everyone Invited, Free Admission
Total Attendance 155
Theatre Games and Career Experience Workshops
Tupper Secondary School, Vancouver School Board
also offered to GAB Youth programs
Open Rehearsal for Members and Invited Guests
Ginger Goodwin, a feature length play, from B.C.’s
early history
Dorothy Somerset Studio, UBC, March 6th, 2005 7 PM
Provided Free of Charge
Total Attendance: 16
Annual General Meeting June, 17th, 2004
and Gordon Armstrong Playwright’s Rent Award, Cabaret
La Tizaine Restaurant,
Cabaret Readings, and Songs, AND Comedy
Featuring volunteer artists
Free Admission
Donations Accepted to support the
Gordon Armstrong Playwright’s Rent Award
Everyone Invited
Total Attendance 43
PUBLIC EDUCATION:
This year we had one less production in our
artistic season due to more limited funds. Appropriately,
we focused our public attention on donated and free means
of reaching the public. Our featured work this year was
less issue-driven, with an emphasis on poetry and art.
We were pleased to work with co-op of artists
brought together as Dumb Prophet to present rarely produced
classic plays by the founder of Irish theatre, W. B. Yeats.
To help connect the public to his work, we conceived and
helped our production partners implement a marathon reading
of his poems and plays dubbed the Yeats-A-Thon. Admission
was free by donation with all proceeds going to the charity,
the Actors Fund of Canada. The event featured writers and
actors from the professional community donating their time
to read for the general public.
Yeats-A-Thon, Sunday January 9th, 10am to
10pm
at the Chapters on Robson, Vancouver.
Admission Free
Estimated participation by all involved is 675
Academic Connections
We also began a new relationship with UBC,
which has been helping connect theatre students with the
professional community.
Parents Workshop
Our last project this season will continue
into the next season. We conceived and facilitated an
Artists as Parents Workshop Discussion, Spring 2005,
as part of GVPTA Theatre Conference, 2005
Free open to the professional theatre community and the
public
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Origins Theatre Projects
Society Artistic Season
Calendar of Events 2003-2004
Yellow
On Thursdays
Pre-production-Rehearsals-Public
Relations
Various Venues January thru April 2003
Yellow on Thursdays,
Production
All Performances at Performance Works on Granville Island
Preview Dress,
Thursay March 20th 8pm
All Proceeds to The Gordon Armstrong Playwright’s
Rent Award
Opening Performance,
Friday, March 21st all shows 8pm unless noted otherwise
Performance Two, Saturday March 22
Performance Three, Tuesday March 25,
Performance Four, Wednesday March 26
Performance Five, Thursday March 27th
Performance Six, Thursday March 27th, 1pm, Special High-School
Matinee
Performance Seven Friday March 28th
Performance Eight, Saturday March 29th
Performance Nine, Sunday March 30th 4pm
Audience Education and Outreach
The theme of Yellow On Thursdays is respecting people’s
individual differences, and what happens when people do
not respect such differences. The play is the event around
which we build media education stories on this and related
subjects. Through the media, we are able to get stories
about the subject written that would not have otherwise
been written if we did not produce the play. For example,
Georgia Straight wrote an article that drew attention to
the play and the plight of teenagers who attempt or commit
suicide because of confusion over sexual orientation. Our
play program contained educational essays and information
on these subjects as well.
Our campaign
included posters, 10 bus shelter adds, 3 media releases
and handbills. The reviews of the play also served as an
excellent means of audience education on these subjects.
The number of people that benefited from this deliberate
strategy is appropriately large.
Happy
Anarchist
Pre-Production,
February thru April 2003
Various Venues
Happy Anarchist,
Site-Specific Co-Production, Limited Seating
The New Amsterdam Café, 301 West Hastings St.
Performance One,
Tuesday, April 15th
Performance Two, Wednesday, April 16th
Performance Three, Thursday, April 17th
Performance Four, Tuesday, April 22nd
Performance Five, Tuesday, April 23rd
Performance Six, Wednesday, April 24th
Performance Seven, Thursday, April 25th
Performance Eight, Tuesday, April 29th
Performance Nine, Wednesday April 30th
Storytelling
Mr. Mr
Family Weekend Camp
May 9th 2003
Performances Provided Free of Charge by Origins
Kits
Neighbourhood House Winter Festival
Featured Presentation
Everyone Invited, Free Admission
Theatre
Games and Self-Confidence Workshops
GAB Youth, The Centre
Provided Free of Charge for all attending
Also offered
for the Gathering Place but post-poned to next season
Open Rehearsal
for Members and Invited Guests
Yellow On Thursdays
The Gathering Place
March 11th, 2004, 2pm
Provided Free of Charge
Doubting
Thomas, New Reading
October 21st 2004
2065 West 5th Avenue
Provided Free of Charge
Blink
Preview Presentation
January 7th 2004
Provided Free of Charge
Total Attendance: 9
Annual
General Meeting
Part 1 March 21, and Part 2 June 17th 2003
World
Theatre Day Cabaret
Performance Works, Granville Island
March 27th
Joy Coghill, Reading the World Theatre Day Message
Cabaret Readings and Songs
Featuring volunteer artists Adam Joe, Michael Charrois,
and Donard MacKenzie
Free Admission
Donations Accepted to support the Gordon Armstrong Playwright’s
Rent Award
Everyone Invited
Production
of Blink and Celebration of the 10th Anniversary
of VIFVF
December 2003 to January 2004
Short Film, Commissioned by CineVic in celebration of the
10th Anniversary of the
founding of the Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival
Origins Theatre Projects cofounded this event as our final
Victoria based project.
Blink
Presentation for the Decade Project at the VIFVF
Victoria Music Conservatory, February 4th 2004
Total Attendance: (est.) 175
Artistic Season Review and Project Development
Ongoing thru winter 2003-2004
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Past
productions
- Telling Tales/Touching
Tongues with scripts by Sara Graefe and Ann Fleming
Origins at the Vancouver
East Cultural Centre May 2000, directed by Donard MacKenzie
- Yellow On Thursdays
by Sara Graefe Workshop Production
Origins at Firehall
Arts Centre, 99, Directed by Kim Seary
- Ambushed by
Karen Wickberg workshopped and produced by Origins-
Directed by Pam Johnson,
at Gastown Studio Theatre,98
- Wasps written
and directed by Sally Clark Origins at Vancouver Little
Theatre, 97
- Chalk Body,
by Teresa Timpson Workshop Production, Origins
at the Vancouver Cultural
Alliance, 96, directed by Kim Seary
- Blue Dragons,
by Gordon Armstrong, westcoast Premiere Origins at Firehall
Arts 96
directed by Roy Surette,
with Jonathan Teague
- Diary of a Madman,
adapted for the stage by Donnard MacKenzie,
at the Gastown Studio Theatre,
summer 95
- The Waltonsteins,
written and produced by Frannie Sheridan, a collaboration
with
Origins Theatre Projects,
at Gastown Studio Theatre, summer 95
- The Poet, Friend
and Dark Lady, an original creation inspired by Shakespeare’s
Love Sonnets, Canadian Fringe Festival Tour 94, Directed
by Rod and Christine Menzies. Pick of the Fringe in three
cities!! Built in Vancouver.
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Selected Community
Building Projects
- Delvecki’s Closet
Associate Producer with Section 8 Productions, at
the Vancouver Fringe 99, winner best Festival production
2000, directed by Craig Hall
- Till I am Myself
Again, coproduction written and directed by Craig Hall,
Vancouver Fringe 2000
- Persephone’s Dreams,
Tandem Productions, Fringe 2000, Jessie Nominee
- The Dali/Bundy Exhibit…Kevin
Conway, Fringe 2001, Presentation House Pick
- The Happy Anarchist,
Michael Charois, Site Specific workshop 2002, Performance
2003
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Selected Victoria
Projects
- Transit Song,
by Marcus Hondro New Play/Origins at Theatre
Inconnu 92
- Blake on a Bed of
Dreams by Stanley Frieberg, Open Space Gallery
Victoria
- A Good Place,
written and directed by Donnard MacKenzie Short Video
- Spring Awakening,
by Frank Wedekind, Directed by Donnard MacKenzie
Kaleidoscope Theatre/Origins
Theatre, 23 person cast with young people
and professional actors
and live music, 1993
- Julius Caesar
directed by Karen Rickers, Victoria Studio Theatre 1994
playing to both public and
5 performances for students studying the play
- Wooden Nickels,
Film presented with a live-staged monologue,
Various dates, both Vancouver
and Victoria, written and directed by Donnard MacKenzie
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