Essential Collective Theatre

COMING UP - ECT'S 2011/12 SEASON!

TROUT STANLEY BY CLAUDIA DEY Directed by Patrick Gauthier Featuring Jason Cadieux, Deanna Jones and Stephanie Jones

Canadian Actors' Equity Association approved Independent Artists Projects Policy production

When: SEPT 30TH TO OCT 16TH
Where: SULLIVAN MAHONEY COURTHOUSE THEATRE 101 King Street
Admission: REG - $20 / STUDENTS AND SENIORS - $18

Trout Stanley is the story of the fraternal twins Grace and Sugar Ducharme who live in a remote cabin in Northern British Columbia. Grace is the beautiful proprietor of the local dump; Sugar is a demure agoraphobic who runs a business designing and manufacturing figurines and other homemade items from within the cabin. In the last nine years, each time the pair celebrates a birthday, there is a murder. On the occasion of their thirtieth birthday, not only does a brazen exotic dancer die, but a stranger named Trout Stanley also enters their lives. The happenings of the day will forever altar their fate.

ECT Presents: Hamlet (solo) with Raoul Bhaneja Directed by Robert Ross Parker

Performed by Raoul Bhaneja and directed by Robert Ross Parker, Hamlet(solo), described by Theatre Passe Muraille artistic director and former Hamlet, Layne Coleman as “the finest show presented in the Backspace in the last 30 years” is a fresh, vital and engaging solo retelling ofthe greatest play on earth. Bhaneja and director Robert Ross Parker began developing the project in 2000 while members of the Soulpepper Theatre Company. Hamlet (solo) combines the ancient art of storytelling and the modern invention of the “one-man show”.

When: March 3rd, 2012 ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Where: SULLIVAN MAHONEY COURTHOUSE THEATRE 101 King Street, downtown St. catharines
Admission: REG - $30

Now accepting submissions for Wine & Reading #6 Presented in Partnership with 13th Street Winery

The Wine & Reading Series is a workshop program created to foster local playwrights. An invaluable experience for both veteran and new writers, this is an important step in the long process of play development. ECT has developed various shows over the last few years including 17.5 & Hard Ways by Jason Cadieux, She’s Mine & Luck by Stephanie Jones and most recently White Crow by Dawn E. Crysler.

ECT partners with a local Winery, the first half of the evening audiences take a guided tour of the Wineryand are treated to a structured tasting of the various wines. The later half of the evening is all about the play reading. CLICK HERE FOR SUBMISSION DETAILS