Entertaining the Shuswap since 1977!
Community enrichment • Diverse and inspiring live entertainment • opportunities for creative dramatic experience
Once again, Shuswap Theatre is hosting the OZone Drama Festival. Community theatre groups from up and down the valley will bring their best work to compete for Oscar-style awards. Detailed critiques will follow each performance. But the real winners are you, our theatre loving public.
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May 19th at 7:30 pm
Fifteen-year-old Bess has no idea, when she heads to London to see her uncle Ted, that she is about to find herself at the heart of a scandal involving sexual impropriety, her stepfather, Thom, and an attempted overthrow of the government. What does all this have to do with her? How adroitly can Bess maneuver through a series of interviews to avoid being swept up in the peril that might ensue?
Kate Hennig explores victim shaming, sexual consent, and the extraordinary abilities of girls becoming women, as she reimagines a scandalous and little-known story of Elizabeth the First before she was Queen.
Advisory: Mature themes of sexuality and violence, includes mild to moderate profanity.
Your ticket includes entry into the Adjudicator’s Coffee Critique, the following morning from 9:30 to 11:30.
The Virgin Trial is presented by special arrangement with Queenmaker Inc.
May 20th at 7:30 pm
Mitch Albom’s autobiography tells the story of reconnecting with his former college professor, Morrie Schwartz, who is dying of Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS). During their weekly visits, Morrie shares his life lessons. This play is a moving exploration of mentorship, mortality and human connection. Mitch is about to attend the last class that Morrie will ever teach. An uplifting story.
Your ticket includes entry into the Adjudicator’s Coffee Critique, the following morning from 9:30 to 11:30.
May 21st at 7:30 pm
In 1926, Radium is a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage – until the girls who paint those watch dials begin to die. Based on the true story of the women and men who worked for the U.S. Radium Corporation in Orange, N.J.
Your ticket includes entry into the Adjudicator’s Coffee Critique, the following morning from 9:30 to 11:30.
Produced by special arrangement with the
DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois.
May 22nd at 7:30 pm
Steel Magnolias deftly takes us through the lives and bonds of a group of southern women who meet regularly at Truvy’s Beauty Salon. Their lived experiences show them to be as delicate as magnolias, but tough as steel.
Your ticket includes entry into the Adjudicator’s Coffee Critique, the following morning from 9:30 to 11:30.
