Sears Ontario Drama Festival 2008: Toronto Central District

(Host Schools in RED: order plays are shown in is NOT necessarily performance order!)

 

 

Wednesday Feb. 20:

HOST: Dante Alighieri Academy

60 Playfair Ave.

Toronto M6B 2P9

            Staff Advisor: Teo Dragonieri                                                        zanni_arte_drago@hotmail.com

            School phone: 416 393 5522                                                            School fax: 416 397 6123

            Blind Spot                                                                                          40 min. student written drama

                        A young man struggles to find his way through life; as a taxi driver working night shifts, he meets a very special passenger: a
sick, elderly woman on her way to a hospice. As one life is beginning and the other is ending, they help each other recognize
the important moments in life.

 

Guest Schools:

 

Kipling CI

            Staff Advisor: Lucy Carabine                                                         lucycarabine@yahoo.ca

            School phone:  416 394 7930                                                         School fax: 416 394 6170

            Sleeping Dogs                                                                                                45 min. published drama

                        A love affair between a Muslim boy and a Christian girl on the eve of the war in the former Yugoslavia…

 

Marshall McLuhan CSS    

            Staff Advisors: Anne Louise Bannon, Tim Lee                            annelouise.bannon@tcdsb.org

            School phone:  416 393 5561                                                         School fax: 416 393 5499

            Jugband Blues                                                                                   50 min. student written drama

                        A funeral leads four guys to reconcile about the past, present, and the death of their best friend.

 

 

Thursday Feb. 21:

HOST: St. Clement’s                                                                                                           
21 St. Clements Ave.                                      
 Toronto M4R 1G8    

            Staff Advisor: Jenn Worsnop                                                          jworsnop@scs.on.ca
   School Phone: 416 483 4414                                                             School Fax: 416 483 8242

            The Art of Remembering                                                                    40 min.published drama
Three actresses embody different facets of a young woman who returns home to bury her father. While there, she cleans out
her closet, and as she rediscovers objects, memories come tumbling out. The three actresses play all of the various characters           
in Rebecca’s past and she is able to relive her memories through their re-enactments of them.

 

Guest Schools:

 Northern SS

            Staff Adviser: Victoria Dawe                                                          vdawe@sympatico.ca
School Phone: 416 393 0284                                                             School Fax: 416 393 0877

            The Inexorable Truth That Time Tells All, or A Bucket of Woes, Not to Mention Pretention        47 min. student written comedy

                        Begonias, buckets and watches wreak havoc in the life of an arrogant Edwardian aristocrat.

Don Mills CI

            Staff Advisor: Jennifer Hall                                                                       Jennifer.L.Hall@tel.tdsb.on.ca
School Phone: 416 395 3190                                                             School Fax: 416 534 4792

            The Bellboy                                                                                        45 min. student written  romantic comedy

                        Rival friends Nancy and Molls vie for the affection of Bobby the Bellboy in this quirky romantic comedy set in the 1920’s.

 

Friday Feb. 22:

HOST: Winston Churchill CI

2239 Lawrence Ave. East

Toronto MIP 2P7

           

            Staff Advisors: Tim Seabrook, Douglas Langdon                                    tseabrook@rogers.com                                                       

            School Phone:  416 396 6883                                                           School Fax: 416 396 6893

            Perfect                                                                                                 35 min. student written serio-comic

                        A fractured narrative that explores the lives of teens who strive to be perfect in an imperfect world.

             

 

Guest Schools:

 

Sir Wilfrid Laurier CI

            Staff Advisor: Liz Burnip                                                                liz.burnip@tel.tdsb.on.ca

            School Phone: 416 396 6820                                                                        School Fax: 416 396

            A Wide River to Cross                                                            40 min. student written historical interpretive play

                        The life of Lucille and Thomas Blackburn and their escape from slavery to freedom.

 

Marc Garneau CI

            Twisted Sisters                                                                        45 min.published  comedy/farce

                        Two twins are separated as young children. One is adopted in far off land; the other searches for her. After landing on the
shores of Epadamus, many years pass before they finally find each other.

 

 

Monday Feb. 25:

HOST: Danforth C&TI

800 Greenwood Ave.

Toronto M4J 4B7

            Staff Advisor: Heli Kivilaht                                                            hkivilaht@oise.utoronto.ca
             School phone: 416 393 0614                                                            School fax: 416 393 0577

            Crimes and Punishment                                                                    45 min.. unpublished comedy; not student written

                        Gloria Edwards is thrilled to be defending her first client ever – a  straightforward case of littering.  Gloria is convinced the
public sector justice system can be made to work every bit as well as the private sector.  You have to understand the
computerized jury deliberation and sentencing system and it will all come out right in the end.  Or so Gloria thinks.

 

            Heist                                                                                                    25 min. student written comedy

                        Jim lives a lonely, solitary life. All that changes when he receives some unexpected visitors.

                                   

Guest School:

 

East York CI

            Staff Advisor: Glenna Sims-Bonk                                                 glenna.sims.bonk@tel.tdsb.on.ca

            School phone: 416 396 2355                                                            School fax: 416 396

            Words, Words, Words                                                             35 min. published contemporary comedy

                        Three monkeys are used in an experiment to see if they can randomly produce Hamlet.

 

 

Wednesday Feb. 27:

HOST: Sir Oliver Mowat CI

5400 Lawrence Ave East

Toronto M1C 2C6

            Staff Advisor: Shelly Meichenbaum                                             shellycass@hotmail.com

            Phone:  416 396 6802                                                                        Fax: 416 396 6758

            Scuba Lessons                                                                        30 min. published comedy

                        A blind date goes wrong. . .or right?

 

Guest Schools:

ASE 1

            Staff Advisor: Agatha Marinakis                                                   Agatha.Marinakis@tel.tdsb.on.ca

            Phone: 416 396 6914                                                                         Fax: 416 396 6304

            When Shakespeare’s Ladies Meet                                                     45 min. published comedy

                        Five of Shakespeare’s heroines have heard that Juliet has fallen in love with Romeo, so they decide to visit her at her home in
Verona to give her their advice on love and relationships.  However, they soon realize that Juliet can teach them a thing or two
about men, despite her youth and inexperience.

Cedarbrae CI
. Staff Advisor:  Kelly Wheaton                                                        kelly.wheaton@rogers.com

            School Phone: 416 396 4400                                                                        School Fax: 416 393 4454

            All for Love / Deus ex Machina                                                        30 min. unpublished comedy

                        A set of plays: love and kidnapping, a struggling playwright summoning the gods for aid.

 

 

Thursday Feb. 28:

HOST: Northern SS
851 Mt. Pleasant Ave. 
 Toronto M4P 2L5

            Staff Advisor: Victoria Dawe                                                          vdawe@sympatico.ca
School Phone: 416 393 0284                                                             School Fax: 416 393 0877                                                    

            Underground                                                                                      45 min. student written musical

                        In a dystopian future, a dedicated theatre troupe goes underground to rehearse a show which will protest the excesses of a
repressive government.

Guest Schools:

                                                                                               

Dante Alighieri Academy: see above

            Who Done It?                                                                                    25 min. student written comic mystery

                        The mystery unfolds when the bodies of a wealthy family are found lifeless on the floor of their dining room by the household
maid. As the two investigators collect the right clues and make the right deductions to solve the mystery, one question
remains unanswered: who done it?

 

Marc Garneau CI

            Staff Advisor: Sandra McGregor                                                    smacgregor_5@sympatico.ca
School Phone: 416 396 2410                                                             School Fax:  416 396 2407

            Under Twenty                                                                                     45 min. student-teacher collective drama

                        This play is written in memory of all those teens, under the age of 20, who were murdered in 2007.  This is the story of both
perpetrator and victim, and communicates their community’s response this violence.

 

Friday Feb. 29:

HOST: Oakwood CI

991 St. Clair Ave. W

Toronto M6E 1A3

            Staff Advisor:  Jeff Jones                                                                bjones9603@rogers.com

            School Phone: 416 393 1780                                                                        School Fax: 416 393 8169

            Small Sticks                                                                                       45 min. student-teacher collective dramedy

                        After being mocked for his entire young life, Sheldon decides to take revenge. This play is an examination of hatred and what
causes it; why we act on it and who’s to blame.

Guest Schools:

 

Lawrence Park CI

            Staff Advisor:  Mike Laidlaw                                                          mlaidlaw99@yahoo.com

            School Phone: 416 393 9500                                                                        School Fax: 416 393 9526

            The Love Course                                                                                 50 min. published drama

                        A female professor has been teaching a course on the language of love with a younger male colleague. She has fallen in love
with him through the books and the experiences of the classroom.

 

Vaughan Road Academy

            Staff Advisor:  Dirk Beck                                                                vaughanroad.academy@tdsb.on.ca

            School Phone: 416 394 3222                                                                        School Fax: 415 394 4478

            Mirror Game                                                                                      50 min.published drama

                        Examines the effects of family dysfunction on four teens.