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Elmwood actresses nominated for Cappies awards

Friday May 14

Elmwood School students have earned 3 Cappies nominations, for their riveting performances in Love & Work Enough...and More, a new adaptation of Canadian playwright Peggy Sample’s lively work that featured fictional and non-fictional female characters who documented their emigration from Britain to Upper Canada and West Canada.

Grade 10 student Maka Ngwenya garnered a nomination for Best Supporting Actress, Grade 10 student Erin Chapman was nominated for Best Comic Actress and Grade 9 student Rebecca Boucher was recognized in the Creativity category for Musicianship. Congratulations!

Winners will be announced at the Cappies Gala on June 13 at the National Arts Centre. We wish the girls the best of luck!

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About Elmwood Theatre

Elmwood Theatre sets out to provide young actors with the practical and artistic experience of mounting a full-fledged production, as well as to instill in them a confidence in their own ability to express themselves, and a life-long passion for the arts.

Every year Elmwood Theatre involves up to fifty students on-stage and behind the scenes, featuring both International and Canadian scripts. The plays are carefully selected, always with the goal that the students, in the end, will take ownership of their own artistic endeavors.

Over the years students have acquired a practical, theoretical and historical knowledge of international traditions and ideas related to theatre. Some of these have included the effectiveness and beauty of Indonesian Shadow Puppetry; the plight of children caught in situations of war and poverty, or suffering from physical disability or abuse, as well as the courage, imagination and heroism of women who seek to enrich their lives by means of their own strengths and resources.

About The Cappies

The Cappies, "Critics and Awards Program," is a program through which high school theatre and journalism students are trained as critics, attend shows at other schools, write reviews, and publish those reviews in local newspapers.

Canada's Capital Cappies, the program that made Cappies international, includes 34 schools from the National Capital region.