I (Sarah) have been told (by Becky) that our projects page needs updating. And she is right.
So, our projects. We dabble. In what? In genres. In topics. In plays by us and plays by others. We refuse to stick to a category, because who’s going to make us?
In 2024, we’re producing and acting in “A Little Bit Ado About Nothing,” our first proper Shakespeare, even though it’s a highly-abridged version of Much Ado. Six whole characters and countless scenes left on the cutting room floor, leaving only the funniest bits remaining.
In 2023, we did “Shelley and Lovelace Never Met” at the Ottawa Fringe Festival, winning Best of Fest and coming the closest to a Serious Play as we’ve ever gotten, even though it was a bit of a ghost story for all that.
For the 2022 Ottawa Fringe Festival, we performed “Arthur Bampot and the Case of the Kept Man,” by David Scotswood, a film noir-style show wherein a valuable antique husband goes missing. It’s as silly as it sounds.
To shake off the quarantine blues in 2021, we staged a Zoom reading of Terry Pratchett’s “Monstrous Regiment,” adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs. It was a wonderful time, and we raised money for the orangutangs as well. Find out more here.
You can also watch the Ottawa Little Theatre’s virtual staged reading of our play “Skirts in the Forest” here, and let Shakespearean buffoonery soothe your soul.
“Skirts in the Forest” was originally staged for the 2019 Ottawa Fringe Festival, and if you didn’t go, click here to find out more so you can wish you did.
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