Provincial Festival 2022May 12 - 14
Red Deer Polytechnic |
Provincial Festival 2022
The AGM Meeting is on Friday, May 12th at 9:30am in the foyer of the theatre.
All teachers and school/zone representatives are welcome to attend.
n honour of our 50th Anniversary - we encourage all schools to consider supporting Canadian Theatre by doing Canadian One Act Plays or student written material. But this is not a requirement - just a request for consideration. Click here to see a list of Canadian works.
All teachers and school/zone representatives are welcome to attend.
n honour of our 50th Anniversary - we encourage all schools to consider supporting Canadian Theatre by doing Canadian One Act Plays or student written material. But this is not a requirement - just a request for consideration. Click here to see a list of Canadian works.
Festival Information
Festival lnformation Packet
Red Deer Polytechnic Arts Centre, 100 College Ave, Red Deer, AB
Information about parking
$15 Admission for guest audience members
Red Deer Polytechnic Arts Centre, 100 College Ave, Red Deer, AB
Information about parking
$15 Admission for guest audience members
Festival Registration
There are two ways to register: as Performers and as Non-Performing Participants.
Registration to the festival includes all three days. Participants are encouraged to attend the full festival.
All Registrants: Register online through this form: https://forms.gle/s34rx24DiQ6v8jNR8
Registration Fee:
- $60/ student is waived this year!
- $30/ adult, supervisor, teacher, etc.is waved this year!
- (Performers) A production registration fee of $160/ play is waved this year
Deadlines:
Please register by Sunday, May 8 at 11:59pm. If a school misses the deadline, they forfeit participation in the festival performances unless accommodation is deemed possible by Backstage Festival Coordinator and the Executive.
Please send all scripts to the adjudicators by May 9, 2022.
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Registration for NON PERFORMING PARTICIPANTS:
You are always welcome to participate as audience members at the Provincial festival! Non Performers are welcome to attend the Provincial Festival and maintain full festival privileges, including workshops, all shows, the banquet, the dance, and the awards ceremony.
Please register here https://forms.gle/qFqrf7rDPaunPYHQ7
Production types permitted in the Festival:
All productions should be one act plays, limited to 65 minutes or less, unless it is a Canadian work (75 minutes or less for Canadian works). In order for a piece to come to the festival, it needs to meet the 65 minute requirement, timed from first cue. This allows us to give opportunity for more shows and more students to come to the festival. Productions exceeding the time limit will be ineligible for awards. Productions will find this out during their adjudication period and it will be announced at the awards ceremony as such: “At this point, this school did not meet the time limit as set out by the Provincial festival”.
Backstage Festival Codirector and Festival Stage Manager reports each One Act play run time, on headset. Shows will be videographed from the tech booth, as backup evidence of run times.
One act plays can be musicals, dramas, comedies, student written work, published and non-published work, collective creations, etc., as long as a script is provided to the adjudicator by the submission date (information provided upon registration)
Students involved: AHSDFA performers/ technicians must be registered in high school. This may be grades 9-12, depending on the high school. Non-high school students may perform if prior permission is granted by the Provincial president, but only in exceptional cases.
Adjudicator Biographies
Artistic Adjudicator: Jane MacFarlane
Jane MacFarlane is an actor, director, educator and, primarily, a voice coach. Jane is the Resident Voice Coach for Theatre Calgary, where she has worked on over 65 productions, including 16 years of A Christmas Carol. She has also worked on Shakespeare by the Bow, TC’s Emerging Artist program, since 2012 and is the director this summer’s Shakespeare on the Go production of her adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor. She is also the Voice and Dialect Consultant for Vertigo Theatre and the Voice and Text Coach for The Shakespeare Company. Jane has taught at such institutions as York University, Harvard University, Southern Methodist University, Mount Royal University, the University of Alberta and is currently on faculty in the Drama Division of the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Calgary. |
Technical Adjudicator: April Viczko
April Viczko has designed sets, costumes, lighting, and projections for companies such as Citadel Theatre, Theatre Calgary, The Banff Centre for the Arts, The Only Animal, The Belfry Theatre, Persephone Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Factory Theatre, Vertigo Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects, and Kill Your Television. April is an Associate Professor at the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the UCalgary. She is a full member and past president of the Associated Designers of Canada. April is the project lead for World Stage Design 2022, to be held in Calgary August 6-16, 2022. Please consider participating!! https://wsd2021.ca |
What to bring with you to the festival:
- One copy of your production licensing
- Zone Report. You may need the help of your Zone Head. *You will not be able to perform without this Zone Report. Please bring this with you to the registration desk, Thursday, May 12. Participants cannot perform unless a Zone Report has been submitted.
- A letter from your school’s principal indicating that all cast & crew members meet the definition of “high school students” as defined by Alberta Education. For example:
The following students will be performing in the AHSDFA Provincial Festival from May 12-14. 2022 All students attend this high school:
Names Here
Signed by Principal of your school
- Model Release Forms (page 9 of info packet) for each Festival Participant. This allows the students to be photographed and photos shared on our website.
- 400 copies of your playbill which includes the following info:
- Playwright and publisher
- The Production’s creative team (indicate students or teachers)
- The School’s name and community name (make sure to include city)
- Zone Number
- **Warnings about language/ mature content/ fog/ strobe/ explicit sexual content/ violence/ mature language/ Suicide
- If your performance includes mature content, posters must be visible for your shows, to be hung in the foyer of the theatre, indicating mature content warnings and timeslot of your production.