When: Friday Feruary 3rd 2012

Where: UBC Buchanan D 205

Come out and join us as we go through The Madness of George III! We’ll be meeting on Friday February 3rd at 3PM. Come, pick a character or two and have fun reading their lines! Snacks will be provided, and it’s a good chance to get to know some of your fellow members as well as flex those voice acting muscles. You can bring your friends too – entrance will be by donation and feel free to bring some snacks to share! check out our FB event and invite your friends! http://on.fb.me/ybElcm

The Drawer Boy

A play by Michael Healey

This spring the UBC Players Club presents the Vancouver premier amateur production of The Drawer Boy by Michael Healey! Already a modern Canadian classic, The Drawer Boy is a trembling, emotion-packed piece of love that will resonate within you even after the fall of the curtain. The play is based on the true story of Miles Potter, a Toronto theatre actor who voyaged into the rural farm land of Ontario to device a collective creation piece called “The Farm Show”. The Drawer Boy was the most produced play in 2000 in the United States. Mike Mackenzie, a recent graduate of George Brown Theatre School in Toronto, now directs the Vancouver amateur premiere of this play that embodies and captures a monumental period in Canadian Theatre History.

The routine of Angus and Morgan, farmers, lifelong friends and war veterans is disturbed by the arrival of Miles, an ambitious young actor from Toronto. This uplifting play about the power of storytelling shows us that no matter how desolate, desperate or doomed a situation, there will always be a bastion of hope for us to cling.  Featuring the talents of Vancouver-based actors Robert Sidley as Angus, Laurence Hollands as Morgan and Riley McIlveen as Miles. The production team includes Nassreen Noorizadeh-Koullou (Set design), Emly Hartig (Lighting Design), Christopher Rhys Pugh (Sound Design), and Jenna Newton (Assistant Director).

Dorothy Somerset Studio | 6361 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC | Feb 8-11 at 8pm| Feb 12 at 12noon| Tickets: club members $5/Non-members $10|Please reserve tickets at thedrawerboy@ubcplayersclub.com or call 778-870-0200

| More info at www.ubcplayersclub.com

The UBC Players’ Club and the Playwright-in-Residence presents:

Impromptu Playwriting Contest

When? Monday January 16th  1-2pm

Where: UBC SUB mainconcourse

The UBC Players’ Club will be holding their first Impromptu Playwriting Contest in January 2012. The contest is simple: you come in, sit down, we give you an envelope with a list of things you must include in your play and you write! Participants will have 60 minutes to write their masterpiece and then hand it in to the Players’ Club where it potentially can be awarded with a variety of prizes! You can even show up the day of and jump right into it—no experience necessary! The only catch is that you will be in the middle of the SUB where UBC students will get to observe the playwriting process. Bring your will and wits maybe you’ll discover you were destined to be a playwright…

Rules
Participants will have 60 minutes to write a play.

You will be given a pen, pad of paper and concealed lists of ideas that must be included in the play in some capacity (either mentioned in the dialogue or somehow play a role in the story).

There will be no laptops, phones or electronic devices permitted: only your wits and the page are allowed.

Once the 60 minutes is up, you will hand in your pieces to be looked at by a panel of judges. The judges will decide the winners and runners up and announce the winners at an award ceremony.

You can write a one-character play, a 15 character play, an epic in iambic pentameter or anything that’s in English and could be performed on stage.

Members: Free! Non-Members: JUST $2

Register by emailing your information to info@ubcplayersclub.com Hurry up! Spots are filling up fast!

Check our our facebook group for more details!

http://www.facebook.com/events/156696631097088/?ref=ts

Come out and join us as we go through The Cherry Orchard, Russian playwright Anton Chekhov’s last play! We’ll be meeting on Friday January 13th at 4PM in IBLC room 260, UBC. Snacks will be provided, and it’s a good chance to get to know some of your fellow members as well as flex those acting muscles. You can bring your friends too – the reading is free for members, but just $3 for non-members.

The UBC Players’ Club and the Playwright-in-Residence presents:

IMPROMPVISED, INVENTIVE PLAYWRITING TO THE EXTREME

The UBC Players’ Club will be holding their first Impromptu Playwriting Contest in January 2011. The contest is simple: you come in, sit down, we give you an envelope with a list of things you must include in your play and you write! Participants will have 60 minutes to write their masterpiece and then hand it in to the Players’ Club where it potentially can be awarded with a variety of prizes! You can even show up the day of and jump right into it—no experience necessary! The only catch is that you will be inthe middle of the SUB where UBC students will get to observe the playwriting process. Bring your will and wits maybe you’ll discover you were destined to be a playwright…

Rules
Participants will have 60 minutes to write a play. They will be given a pen, pad of paper and concealed lists of ideas that must be included in the play in some capacity (either mentioned in the dialogue or somehow play a role in the story). There will be no laptops, phones or electronic devices permitted, only their wits and the page. Once the 60 minutes is up, the writers will (anonymously) hand their pieces, complete or not, to be looked at by a panel of judges. The judges will decide the winners and runners up and announce the winners at an award ceremony.

Members: Free! Non-Members: JUST $2

Hey Everyone!

It’s that stressful time of year again when classes are finishing, papers are almost done and exams are right around the corner.

The Players Club invites you to an afternoon of relaxing, forgetting about the chaos of classes and exams and enjoying yourself! Come out on December 2nd (the last day of classes, hooray!!) where we will be providing refreshments and snacks ( think warm coffee and tea), musical entertainment and an arts and crafts table at our Mad Hatter Tea event! We’re happy to announce that members of the UBC Jazz Cafe Club will be preforming at our event. Come and see their lovely talent and for those interested in joing the UBC Jazz Cafe Club, contact ubcjazzcafe@groups.facebook.com!
The location will be at the SUB, in the Partyroom so you can all mark your calendars! You don’t have to stay for the whole thing, you can drop in whenever you like!

As usual, this event is free for all members and only $3 for non-members so make sure to invite your friends!