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Elmwood Theatre Garners Four Nominations

Elmwood Theatre’s production of The Good Person of Setzuan has been nominated for four Cappies awards! There were a total of 28 plays and 10 musicals considered for the awards.

Elmwood has been nominated in the following categories:

• Best Costumes: Emma Dolhai and Erin Chapman
• Best Stage Crew: Lucy Robert and Mckenzie Gowie
• Best Supporting Actress: Makanaka Ngwenya
• Best Play

Winners will be announced at the Cappies Gala on June 5 at the National Arts Centre, where as a Best Play nominee, the cast will perform a scene from their production. Break a leg girls!

External Links

Ottawa Citizen CAPPIES review: Between Naughty and Nice

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.