2009 One Act Festival, Studio Theatre Productions, Perth
November 13 - 14, 2009
Adjudicator - John Lazarus

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Friday, November 13	Saturday, November 14 - Afternoon	Saturday, November 14 - Evening
More Theatre, Manotick This is a Play by Daniel MacIvor directed by Joan Sullivan Eady	Toto Too Theatre, Ottawa The Soldier Dreams by Daniel MacIvor directed by Chantele Plante and Tim Ginley	Vagabound Theatre, Cornwall Ruby of Elsinore by Bruce Kane directed by Katie Burke
Kemptville Players, Kemptville Roommates by Mary Orr directed by Monica Cleland	Ottawa Little Theatre, Ottawa Deliver'd from NoWhere by Tim Ginley directed by Geoff Gruson	Peterborough Theatre Guild, Peterborough Mrs C, You've Got a Lovely Scar by R. Keith Smith directed by R. Keith Smith
Valley Players, Almonte Ladies of the Mop by Aurand Harris directed by Marianne Mullan	Studio Theatre Productions, Perth Would You Like a Cup of Tea? by Warren Graves directed by Patricia Parry	Dundas County/Shoestring Theatre, Mountain Winchester Worth it by Moira Law directed by Elizabeth Barton

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Adjudicator John Lazarus' comments from the Awards' Brunch.

Peterborough Examiner Award for Best Visual Production

for combined use of setting, signage, lighting and silhouette acting

Dundas County Players and Shoestring Productions - Worth It

 

Helen R McGregor Adjudicator's Award

for representing a welcome trend in community theatre of presenting new, original work, and also for writing a hell of a good script

Dundas County Players and Shoestring Productions - Worth It
Moira Law, author

 

Peterborough Theatre Guild Adjudicator's Award

for a very funny performance, and for successfully fooling the Adjudicator and, I hope, other audience members, by means of a triumphant, sustained, masterful feat of what I'll politely call gender bending

Vagabond Theatre - Ruby of Elsinore
Michael DeWolfe as Ruby

 

Colin Mawson Award for Outstanding Contribution by a Student

for his backstage work as ASM, Sound Operator, and, I hear, supportive son of the Stage Manager

Peterborough Theatre Guild - Mrs. C., You've Got a Lovely Scar,
Josh Lueck

 

Nancy Chajkowski Memorial Award for Costume Design

for two simple costumes that told us most of what we needed to know about the ladies wearing them

Kemptville Players - Roommates
Monica Cleland, Barb McDerby and Cathie Raina

 

Belleville Theatre Guild Acting Award

for a subtle and sensitive comic performance as an unsubtle and insensitive actor, who at least enters with conviction

More Theatre - This is a Play
Ian Stauffer

 

Mae Carmichael Award for Acting

for another paradoxical achievement: a graceful portrayal of awkwardness, in a character who is buoyed up by her dreams

Valley Players of Almonte - Ladies of the Mop
Kate McDonough

 

Pauline Grant Award for Acting

for a cheerful and exuberant performance that sparkled, literally and figuratively

Studio Theatre Productions - Would You Like a Cup of Tea?
Joanna McAuley as Nola

 

Nepean Little Theatre Acting Award

for a nuanced, multi-leveled, perceptive portrayal of a man desperately trying to do and say the right thing in a difficult situation

Toto Too Theatre - The Solider Dreams
Ken Godmere as Sam

 

Penny Arril Adjudicator's Award

I wanted to honour this production, but I couldn't find a category to honour it in, because what makes the production so special is what's unique and unclassifiable about it: no one contribution, but the whole thing adding up to more than the sum of its parts. So this is an adjudicator's award for ensemble work

More Theatre - This is a Play

Cast and crew

 

Academy Theatre Foundation Best Director

Ottawa Little Theatre - Deliver'd from NoWhere
Geoff Gruson

 

Ottawa Little Theatre Best Production

for direction, minimal but effective design, and superb ensemble acting in an emotional and complex script

Toto Too Theatre - The Solider Dreams

 

Brighton Barn Theatre People's Choice Award

Toto Too Theatre - The Solider Dreams

More Theatre - This is a Play