Tuesday
Feb. 19
HOST: St. Joan of Arc
1 St. Joan of Arc Avenue
Maple ON L6A 1W9
Staff
advisors: Trevor Medeiros, Antonella Campanella Trevor.Medeiros@hotmail.com
School phone: 905-832
8882
School fax: 905
832 5791
Liars 45 min. published drama
Two
teenager try to come to terms with their troubled home lives while developing a
relationship with each other.
Guest schools:
Dr. GW Williams
Staff
Advisor: Shawn Rocheleau mr.rocheleau@gmail.com
School Phone: 905.727 3131
School Fax: 905.727 8067
.The
Web 45 min. teacher and student collective
What has the internet done to us? The internet, technology and cyberspace
have affected our day-to-day interactins with our
friends,
colleagues, and people we donÕt even know.
Maple HS
Staff
Advisors: Lazaros Geronikolos lazaros.geronikolos@yrdsb.edu.on.ca
School Phone: 905 417 9444
School Fax: 905 417 9022
Leo 45 min. published drama
ÒThis is youth. Anything is Possible.Ó Set in Santiago, Chile, three
young friends form a bittersweet love triangle during the
political upheaval surrounding Salvador AllendeÕs assassination. Told
through LeoÕs memories, the play travels theough
childhood,
first friends and first loves. Passion and poetry weave together in this story
of innocence disappeared.
Wednesday
Feb. 20
HOST: Pickering College
16945 Bayview Ave.
Newmarket ON L3Y 4X2
Staff
Advisor: Ryan Vickers rvickers@pickeringcollege.on.ca
School Phone: 905 895 1700
School Fax: 905 895
9076
Hero 30 min. tragedy/noir written by former student
Todd, a high school student,
develops an unhealthy fascination with another student, but as his
increasingly high expectations
of
his ÒheroÓ fail to be met, his fantasy takes him down darker and darker roads.
Guest schools:
Dr. Denison
Staff
Advisor: Kirsty Cunningham kirsty.cunningham@yrdsb.edu.on.ca
School Phone: 905 836 0021
School Fax: 905 836
7728
The
Fitting Room 45 min. student written drama
What happens when six girls, going to the same prom, are all
trying to find the perfect dress? Is
it really about the dress or is
it about finding perfection? By
spending one afternoon at Christina Rose these girls discover they are more
alike than any of
them would ever have imagined.
PACE
Staff
advisor: Adam Furfaro afurfaro@aci.on.ca
School phone: 905-773
8912
School fax: 905
773 4722
Competition
Piece 45 min.. published comedy
A comedic take on high school drama festivals.
Thursday
Feb. 21
HOST: Emily Carr SS
4901 Rutherford Rd.
Woodbridge ON L4H 3C2
Staff
Advisor: Heather Prinsloo heather.prinsloo@yrdsb.on.ca
School Phone: 905 850 5012
School Fax: 905 850
7591
Behind
Closed Doors 40 min. student written drama (mature content)
A
family deals with abuse issues from the father, while the daughter struggles to
break the cycle of physical and verbal abuse.
Guest Schools:
Woodbridge College
Staff
Advisors: Tony Antoniou tony.antoniou@sympatico.ca
School Phone: 905 851 2843
School fax: 905 851 4120
Possible
Worlds 50 min. published science fiction
A
man follows the love of his life into multiple realities.
Alexander Mackenzie HS
Staff
Advisor: Kathryn Ellis kdellis@rogers.com
School Phone: 416 466 4895
School Fax: 905 884 4694
Your
HeartÕs Desire 35 min. teacher written drama
Six graduating students spending the weekend at a cottage encounter
a magic heart that either reveals or grants
their heartsÕ desires.
Friday Feb.
22
HOST: St. Theresa of Lisieux
230 Shaftsbury Ave.
Richmond Hill ON L4C 0E8
Staff
Advisor: Dan Geras Daniel.Geras@ycdsb.ca
School Phone: 905 787
1450
School fax: 905 787 8678
Amelia,
Once More 30 min. published drama
An off Broadway actress struggles with her sanity and supporting
actors as her stage character takes over her personality.
Guest Schools:
Dr. Denison SS Ð as above
Eleven:
Eleven 45 min. student written romantic comedy
When it comes to women, dating and love, Ben and Vince could
not be more opposite. But after
a strange guysÕ night out, they
find themselves on a more even playing field and fighting for the one they
can not have. When surprising
feelings are
revealed, all relationships will be put to the test.
PACE Ð as above
God 45 min. published comedy
Woody
AllenÕs look at Ancient Greece, Athenian drama festivals and present day New
York City.
Monday Feb.
25
HOST : Fr. Michael McGivney
Catholic Academy
5300 14th Ave.
Markham ON L35 3K0
Staff
Advisor: Danny DiLallo danny.dillao@sympatico.ca
School Phone: 905 472 4961
School Fax: 905 472 4976
Babel
Rap 20 min. published religious comedy
Two men struggle to build a stairway to heaven. throughout their conversations
they argue over their true purpose and realize
that
theyÕre being watched.
Guest Schools:
Sacred Heart CSS
Staff
Advisor: Nina Forte Nina.Forte@ycdsb.ca
School Phone: 905 895 3340
School Fax: 905 895
9416
Switching
Places 40 min. published drama
Looking at the difficulties of teenage sex, pregnancy
and single parenthood with the roles reversed.
Markham DHS
Staff
Advisor: Jennifer Duncan ms_duncan_mdhs@hotmail.com
School Phone: 905 294 1886
School fax: 905 294 8141
Totally
Duranged 45 min. published comedy
Five
one act comedies by Christopher Durange dealing with the insanity we face in
our Òregular everydayÕ lives.Ó
Wednesday
Feb. 27
HOST Dr. GW Williams SS
39 Dunning Ave.
Aurora ON L4G 1A2
Staff
Advisor: Shawn Rocheleau mr.rocheleau@gmail.com
School
Phone: 905.727 3131 School
Fax: 905.727 8067
The
Ugly Duckling 30 min. published satire
Princess Camilla is, well, plain. Not even beautifully plain, just plain.
In order to ensure that the young princess is
successfully married off, the King and Queen hatch a fool-proof plan to trick
the unsuspecting Prince Simon into marrying her.
But who is really being fooled?
Guest Schools:
Jean de Brebeuf CSS
Staff
Advisor: Stephanie Artenosi stephunny00@hotmail.com
School
Phone: 905 851 3259 School
Fax: 905 653 5678
Room
203 45 min. student written drama
A
group of very dynamic grade 12 philosophy students write their final exam and
along with that, discover who they really are.
Huron Heights SS
Staff
Advisor: Mike Halfin michael-angela@rogers.com
School
Phone: 905 895 2384 School
Fax: 905 895 8912
Eden
Comes to Grieve 45 min. student collective anthology
Four plays written by a student collective on the theme Òthe loss of
innocence.Ó
Thursday
Feb. 28
HOST: Maple HS
50 Springside Rd.
Maple ON L6A 2W5
Staff
Advisor: Lazaros Geronikolos lazaros.geronikolos@yrdsb.edu.on.ca
School Phone: 905 417 9444
School Fax: 905 417 9022
Mmmbeth 45 min. student written satire/comedy
"Is
this a donut I see before me?" In a
hilarious gender-bending take on the Scottish play everything goes
wrong. The witches
take over the storytelling, Queen Duncan would rather open a donut
franchise than die, Lady M's a bloodthirsty June Cleaver,
and
the murderers are preoccupied with creating a commercial for their services.
Guest Schools:
Pierre E Trudeau HS
Staff
Advisors: Sara MacGregor and Tara Coenen saramacgregor@yrdsb.edu.on.ca
School Phone: 905 887 2216
School Fax: 905 887
7783
Congo 40 min. student written adventure/drama/musical
A Young Man travels to the Congo in a greedy search for King
SolomonÕs treasure, but finally learns that the treasure he
actually seeks is within the heartbeat of the land itself!
Richmond Green
Staff
Advisors: Cathy Clarke catherine.clarke@yrdsb.edu.on.ca
School Phone: 905 780 7858
School Fax: 905 780
1154
Picking
Up the Pieces 40 min. student written drama
A
daughter and father try to understand the past without each other.
Friday Feb.
29
HOST: St Elizabeth CHS
525 New Westminster Drive
Thornhill ON L4J 7X3
Staff
Advisor: Roksolana Jaworskyj Roksolana.Jaworskyj@ycdsb.ca
School Phone: 905 882 1460
School Fax: 905 882
5074
Take
Five 30 min. published comedy
ItÕs opening night and the set isnÕt complete, an actor doesnÕt show
up and a member of the audience comes on stage to
answer
the phone.
Guest Schools:
Villanova College
Staff
Advisor: Paul Dunn dunner1@sympatico.ca
School Phone: 905 833 1909
School Fax: 905 833 1905
Home
Free 45 min. published drama
A brother and sister in their mid-twenties have cut themselves off
from the outside world. Living in a cluttered apartment, they
have created an atmosphere of almost suffocating intimacy, where play
becomes the business of life and reality an alien force
to
be kept at bay.
Sacred Heart Ð above
Stroke
Static 40 min. published drama
An
elderly man in a nursing home struggles with reality and fantasy.