The fledgling St. Albert Theatre Arts Guild of Entertainers (STAGE) is winging its talents in a new direction.
The not-for-profit, established in July 2010, is inviting St. Albert playwrights to submit their unpublished full-length plays to either be workshopped or produced as a complete production in the upcoming season.
“We will be setting up a committee and they will decide what will be workshopped and what would be produced,” says founder Stanley Haroun.
So far in its debut year, the newbie theatre troupe performed eight short one-act plays at the StArts Fest in September 2010 followed by a staging of Alan Ayckbourne’s Season’s Greetings and Norm Foster’s Self-help.
“Part of STAGE’s mission statement is to promote theatre arts for people of the city and writing new plays is part of it,” Haroun explains.
The company’s 81 members contribute an impressive array of talents, ideas and energies. “We are trying to satisfy as many people as possible so they feel they’re an integral part of the group.”
Content and length is open to the playwright’s creativity. The deadline to submit scripts is Sunday, July 31. There are no entry fees for submissions.
Scripts can be emailed to [email protected]. Paper copies can also be mailed to 316, 7 St. Anne St., St. Albert, Alta., T8N 2X4.
