For the second straight year members of the South Grenville community will be joining the professionals on stage during the St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival.
The St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival recently announced that the Canadian Actors Equity Association will be extending special concession to allow twenty non-professionals to take the stage with the 12 professionals scheduled to perform. This year the festival will be staging Antony & Cleopatra and The Three Musketeers.
Ten community members will be performing in each production as extras or, as they’re referred to in the theatre world, supers. Eight of the supers will be returning after participating in last year’s Julius Caesar, four are past participants in the festival’s Young Artists Training Program and some are related. There will be a mother-son team, husband-wife team and two mother-daughter teams. The supers range in age from 13 to 71 years old.
Participating in Antony and Cleopatra are; Katherine Belrose of Prescott, Joshua Craig of Brockville, Katrish Evoy of Cardinal, Jesse Gonidis of Brockville, Sherry Leeder of Brockville, Jessica Madden of Spencerville, Christina Madden of Spencerville, Kylie Osborne of Spencerville, Katrina Tegrotenhuis of Roebuck and Emily Wright of Garretton.
The 10 supers acting in The Three Musketeers are; Kaelan Barton of Cardinal, Billy Chambers of Prescott, Dan Cook of Prescott, Tom Kobolak of Stittsville, Gerry Morand of Maitland, Bill Roberts of Prescott, June Roberts of Prescott, Sue Vallom of Prescott, Riley Vallom of Prescott and Sam Van Dusen of Russell.
Antony & Cleopatra opens July 8th, The Three Musketeers opens on July 12th and both plays run until August 18th. For a detailed schedule and ticket prices visit http://stlawrenceshakespeare.ca/.