What does World Theatre Day mean to you?
Stories are culture, and culture is built from the ground up, from the people. Institutions don’t make culture, but we can be a home for it. Every day at GCTC we are working to build a better home for stories and storytellers. I hope you will come visit us in this home for culture. Our quest to make it increasingly open and accessible is ongoing. Theatre is meant for everyone.
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The Great Canadian Theatre Company has announced a full subscription season with 5 new mainstage productions, through which five Canadian playwrights share their humourous, heartfelt, provocative, and playful visions of how we relate, what we mean to each other, and how much we need to be together. The theatre is also revamping their subscription options, creating a more accessible pricing structure to welcome more people into the live theatre experience.
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We would like to offer a huge congratulations to the artists recommended to the Ontario Arts Council’s Recommender Grants for Theatre Creators through GCTC.
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GCTC’s resident artists, the 100 Watt Youth Ensemble, joined us for the dress rehearsal of Forever Young: A Ghetto Story. We asked them to share their responses to the show, and, as always, their answers were thoughtful and reflective. Their show, 12, will be performed at GCTC May 4-6, 2023. Tickets are available here.
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Great Canadian Theatre Company Annual General Meeting
WHEN: December 6, 2022 at 6pm
WHERE: Irving Greenberg Theatre Centre - Studio
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Taylor sat down with Artistic Director Sarah Kitz to discuss “Forever Young: A Ghetto Story”
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Congratulations to all of the PRA nominees for the 21-22 season. We are thrilled to see "Blissful State of Surrender", "Heartlines", and "Speaking Vibrations" recognized in these nominations, and want to congratulate those who are being celebrated for their incredible work, that we were honoured to showcase at GCTC.
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We were thrilled to have the Artists in Residence from 100 Watt Youth Ensemble join us at the Dress Rehearsal for “The Chemical Valley Project”. Keep reading to hear their thoughts on the show and what they took away from it.
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Mark Leslie Taylor died on September 7. He will be remembered for his work, his art, his humour, and his kindness, and will remain an important figure in GCTC’s history for the many ways in which he contributed to this theatre’s look . Thank you, Mark.
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Great Canadian Theatre Company is pleased to announce that the new community development initiative, named The Tributary Project, has juried and selected the first local show to bring in-house for development. We are delighted to support Laurie Fyffe’s Beowulf in Afghanistan.
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Starting with the upcoming 2022-2023 Season, the Great Canadian Theatre Company will provide the opportunity of an in-house development period to 1 project per season from the Ottawa theatre community, with an eye to producing the project in a future GCTC mainstage subscription season.
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On May 26th, the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres presented Hugh Neilson with the annual Mallory Gilbert Leadership Award, which celebrates and recognizes an individual who has demonstrated outstanding administrative or managerial leadership within the Canadian theatre community. The award also includes a protégé, chosen by the Award winner, underlining the importance of skills and knowledge transmission in leadership building. Hugh has named GCTC Company Manager Celina Hawkins as his protégé. Congratulations to Hugh and Celina!
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Today we are introducing you to Vishesh Abeyratne! One of our fantastic Box Office Assistants, Vishesh has been working in the GCTC Box Office for about 6 months now, but his journey with the company began when former Artistic Director Eric Coates invited him to serve as a playwright-in-residence.
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GCTC and Ottawa School of Theatre (OST) are co-hosting an unconference for the Ottawa performance community.
An unconference is a place to generate and distill ideas. There is no panel of experts. Instead, there is a dynamic, democratic discussion involving everyone present, leading to action items and solutions generated by the group.
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Taylor Vardy (she/they) is a graduate of Queen’s University Drama and Humber College’s Arts Administration and Cultural Management programs. She has been working as GCTC’s Marketing and Development Coordinator since October 2021.
Read MoreMeet Alli Harris! Alli has been a part of the GCTC team since 2018, where she started working in the bar. Her role has grown since then, evolving to Bar Manager and now as Public Spaces Coordinator!
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