Bethany Radford as Vinny Van Gogh in “Find Things Beautiful, As Often As You Can,” part of the University Players’ StartUP Festival.
The inaugural StartUP Festival features one-act plays by graduating students in the BFA Acting program.
The StartUP Theatre Festival will feature 20-minute performance pieces by each of the 16 graduating BFA acting students.
The StartUP Theatre Festival will feature 20-minute performance pieces by each of the 16 graduating BFA acting students.
Playwright Elena Eli Belyea is one of the panellists for a discussion Thursday on the creative process behind the University Players’ Zoom-based theatre production The Stream You Step In.
A panel will discuss the creative process behind the University Players’ Zoom-based theatre production The Stream You Step In, Thursday, Dec. 3.
Chris Boyd, student stage manager of Thank You for Your Labour, demonstrates the possibility of streaming the University Players show from just about anywhere with an internet connection.
University Players’ fall digital season continues tonight —Thursday, Nov. 19 — via Zoom.
In partnership with Toronto theatre company Outside the March, the players are presenting a series of new Canadian works commissioned for the graduating BFA in Acting class.
The project also serves as research material for drama professor Michelle MacArthur and her team, who are working under a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant to examine the impact of live digital performance with analysis of the creative process and audience experience.
Drama students Dustine Sedore, Evander Jack Dewar, Gareth Finnigan, and Dan Stanikowski will act in the University Players production “The Stream You Step In.”
University Players will use technology to address the challenges of performance while social distancing.
Student Aruna Martin-Bhalla interviewed the directors of the four pieces of “The Stream You Step In.”
Set designer David Court has produced a computer-generated rendering of the student apartment that will serve as the stage for one of the University Players virtual productions this season.
Tickets go on sale today for the Zoom-based performances by University Players of new works specially commissioned from four Canadian playwrights.
University Players has commissioned four new works by Canadian playwrights for performance via Zoom in November.
University Players has commissioned four new works by Canadian playwrights for performance via Zoom in November.
The cast and crew of the University Players show “Stag and Doe” created a video message of appreciation for the theatre company’s audiences.
The cast and crew of the University Players show “Stag and Doe” created a video message of appreciation for the theatre company’s audiences.
The Essex Hall Theatre set for “Stag and Doe” goes dark, lit only by a single ghost light bulb. Written by Mark Crawford, directed by Marc Bondy (BFA 2000), set design by Nancy Perrin.
The University Players production of Stag and Doe has been cancelled, but preparations were well underway.
