A recent Shuswap Theatre production swept up several awards at this year's Okanagan Zone Drama Festival in Salmon Arm.
The team behind Shuswap Theatre's recent stage offering, the Virgin Trial, directed by Elizabeth Ann Skelhorne, shared the stage with three other theatre companies during the May 19-23 festival, including Vernon's Powerhouse Theatre with Radium Girls, the South Okanagan Amateur Players of Oliver with Steel Magnolias, and Armstrong's Asparagus Community Theatre with Tuesdays With Morrie.
Adjudicator Kathryn Shaw provided a brief critique of each of the plays, with the event culminating in an awards banquet at the Nexus at First (First United Church).
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Radium Girls also won awards for Best Ensemble, Outstanding Cameo Performance (Ben McLean), Best Lighting Design (Jessika Laframboise), Best Costume Design (Joan Sasges), Outstanding Achievement in Set Design (Chris Bayne), Best Performance by an Actor/Supporting Male Role (Christopher Marioni), Best Performance by an Actor/Lead Female Role (Ellen Campbell), and Best Director (Adele Kuyek).
Salmon Arm's Shuswap Theatre was also a big winner, with awards for Runner-Up Production, the Wilson Family Award for Best Newcomer (Shayla Diekter), Best Props (Althea Mongerson), Best Sound Design (Sarah Higginson and Whitney Fox), Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Design (Jim Clayton and Elizabeth Ann Skelhorne); Oustanding Achievement in Set Design (Laura Demulder and Elizabeth Ann Skelhorne), Best Performance by a Actor/Supporting Female Role (Julia Body) and Outstanding Achievement in Direction (Elizabeth Ann Skelhorne).
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The Okangan Zone (OZone) Festival is one of several divisions of Theatre BC, the body that supports community theatre in the province.
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