What’s Happening?
Next General Meeting
Tuesday, June 18th at 7:00pm
CLT Space – 2683 Moray Avenue, Courtenay
We look forward to seeing you there!
Become a Patron of Courtenay Little Theatre’s 2024-2025 Season!
Upcoming Performances
North Island Zone Festival 2024
Directed by Annie Smith
North Island Zone Festival
Friday May 24th at 7:30pm at the Capitol Theatre in Port Alberni.
SYNOPSIS
And Up They Flew, by Martha Ross, was written and performed in Toronto in 2007. It was published in 2009, and CLT Director, Annie Smith, directed a production of the play in 2010 in Grande Prairie, Alberta. Annie says, “I fell in love with the play because it is both zany and heartfelt. Seven mismatched characters meet up for a weekend in a British country manor in 1936. There are rumblings of war in Europe-an uncertain time that presages our own. It is a British Farce, with comings and goings in the middle of the night, a séance, characters trying desperately to find a place to have a clandestine affair, a mad inventor, a shell-shocked WWI veteran, a woman pilot wanting to fly solo across the Atlantic, a 95 year old woman who runs away to be with her true love, and a maid who isn’t a maid. It is fun and entertaining. In this ensemble play where all the characters are equally important, actors are guaranteed to have a good workout!”
CAST
Nora Duckworth: Jessie Hargreaves
Jane Ashbury: Autumn Olenik
Roger Ashbury: Richard Ostler
Ted Pitt: Alan Morgan
Claire Pitt: Celine D Peters
Daphne Crunchwell: Jeannine Taylor
Marlow Stokes: Wes Buckle
Courtenay Little Theatre respectfully acknowledges that the land we gather on is on the
Unceded Traditional Territory of the K’ómoks First Nation, the traditional keepers of this land.
AUDITION INFORMATION FOR
DRACULA, Nightmare of the Dead
by Allan Stratton
Directed by Catherine Hannon
At the CLT Space, 2683 Moray Avenue, Courtenay, BC:
Friday, May 31 – orientation and sign-up, 7-8 PM
Saturday, June 1 – individual auditions, 1-5 PM
Sunday, June 2 – callbacks 10 AM -2 PM,
(Week of June 3, auditions by appointment.)
We are looking for 7-10 male and female actors to play the following characters:
DRACULA – (M) 50-70 years old
DR. VAN HELSING – (F) 50-70
DR. SEWARD- (M) 20-40
LUCY WESTENRA – (F) 18-30
JONATHAN HARKER – (M) 20-30
MINA MURRAY – (F) 20-30
RENFIELD – (M) 40-60
SWALES – (M) very old
NANNY ROBSON – (F) 50-70
ASYLUM INMATES, GUARD, UNDERTAKER, MAGGIE, MARGARET, SISTER AGATHA, TRANSYLVANIAN
PEASANTS, VAMPIRES (ALL various ages, M/F)
NB: Physical agility is required to execute rapid character and scene transitions.
About DRACULA, NIGHTMARE OF THE DEAD, an original adaptation of the classic 1897 Bram Stoker text:
A female van Helsing, a comic look at Victorian mores, a recreation of the novel’s sweep, and a
disturbing reflection on the relationship between sex and death, distinguish this adaptation of the
Victorian classic.
The play opens in a graveyard. Tonight, those who lived the tale of DRACULA, return from the dead to
tell us their story. Using simple props, banners, and the techniques of epic theatre, actors assume
multiple roles and whisk us from the port at Whitby, to the Transylvanian Castle, Dr. Seward’s asylum, a
crypt, a Romanian convent, a ghost ship, and the finest homes in London…
Performances at Sid Williams Theatre, Oct 2-6, 2024.
Rehearsals July-Oct, except holiday weekends, 2-3 times a week.
ALL WELCOME!
For more information, please contact director Catherine Hannon at info@courtenaylittletheatre.com