Bottle Tree News.
November 2011
Nov 30
Deadline for Bottle Tree Productions One Act Play Competition for Writers is tonight at midnight in your time zone
Nov 29
Tomorrow, our company; Bottle Tree Productions is auditioning for our Christmas show; Cinderella at the Baiden Street Theatre from 5-8 pm. Show opens December 17th.
Nov 27
Chilina Kennedy is on her way to Broadway to star as Mary Magdalene in the Stratford Festival's production of Jesus Christ Superstar. As a teenager Chilina had played the princess in Charles Robertson's version of Aladdin.
Nov 25
Evan Guilford-Blake; is a multi-award winning playwright in Bottle Tree Productions One Act Play Competition. His 19th published play, a compendium of three related one-acts called Friends & Relations, will be issued this winter by HaveScripts.com
An Uncommon Language won its fourth competition, Colonial Players' (Annapolis, MD) Promising Playwright Award
Old Friends won the Tallahatchee RiverFest competition (the second time I've won that contest)
His story In the Realms of Light and Darkness won the Judith Siegal Pearson Award from Wayne State University
My story The Thing with Feathers won Soundings Review's Founder's Contest and was published in the fall issue
Evan's prose poem sea:shore won Flashquake's prose poetry competition
His story The Baby is in the current issue of Kansas City Voices
and his creative non-fiction story Porn Star will be in the next issue of Insolent Aardvark.
Bottle Tree Productions co-owner; Anne Marie Mortensen directs the Kingston Meistersingers' production of the musical; Oliver! at L'Octave Thetare on Dalton Avenue in Kingston, Ontario. The title character of Oliver, played by Hector Jenkins, is understudied by his cousin, Cameron Durst-Jenkins (who played Annie in 2009). Liane Penny (Mrs. Sowerberry), Bill Callum (Dr. Grimwig), and Steve Walker (Mr. Brownlow) all have children in the show. Perhaps the largest contingent of family members is the Kaduck family; brothers Anthony and Nicholas, and Nicholas' children, Anton (Stage Manager), Michela (Chorus), and Victor (Ensemble). The Kaduck children's mother, Jill Johnson, also has a hand in the show, having provided costume pieces and coached magic. Choreography is by Chelsea Swain. David L. Smith created the lighting design, and the cast is tremendously talented and hard working.
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Show dates: Thurs. Nov. 24 @ 7 pm
Fri. Nov. 25 @ 7 pm
Sat. Nov. 26 @ 2pm and @7pm
Nov 23
Hannah Smith is the understudy for Marianne Wainman as Nancy in the Meistersinger's production of Oliver! Hannah is also the lead in KCVI's production of Blood Brothers directed by Scott Davey who played keyboard for us in our production of CATS. She plays Mrs Johnstone. The musical was written by Willy Russel who also wrote Educating Rita which Hannah starred in last year at Theatre 5. In the new year, Director Ian Malcolm (who directed Private. Lives and The Motor Trade for us) has cast Hannah as Stella in Domino Theatre's upcoming production of A Tennessee William's A Street Car Named Desire. This play is Domino Theatre's entry in the Eastern Ontario Drama League Festival Competition. For more on Hannah please go to Hannah Smith
Nov 22
Tony Babcock who does our Acting Out Loud Workshops got hired to host Teletoon. For more on Tony please go to Tony Babcock.
For more on Teletoon please go to Teletoon.
Nov 21
Charlene Donaghy from Torrington Conneticut who placed third in the 2010 edition of Bottle Tree Productions One Act Play writing competition in 2010 has 4 productions in New York City this year and others around the country. Her entry in Bottle Tree's competition; Gift of an Orange was selected by Boston's New Urban Theatre Laboratory to open their 2012-2013 season. For more about Charlene please go to Charlene Donaghy
