(Submitted photo/Battlefords Community Players)

By Angela Brown

In the wings

Battlefords Community Players look forward to perform live theatre again

Jul 14, 2020 | 5:48 PM

Theatre lovers will be glad to know a local troupe is starting to make plans again to hold some new shows and activities as the province’s COVID-19 restrictions continue to be lifted.

Battlefords Community Players [BCP] executive producer Donna Challis said the theatre will make some changes ahead, but the show will go on.

“We are starting the season in September,” she said. “We are having reduced audiences, a different kind of set up. We are quite excited about it.”

She said it is a bit of a challenge, but just as everyone else is also adjusting to the province’s requirements, “we are quite confident we can manage it all.”

The company looks forward to offering people various options so they can take in live theatre once again.

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BCP is making modifications to comply with the COVID-19 protocols as part of the province’s Re-Open Saskatchewan plan for seating capacity limitations and social distancing rules.

“We are starting with the season that we lost,” Challis said, adding Impromptu on Nuns’ Island by Michel Tremblay will run for about five or six performances in September.

The theatre company is offering a four-show season for its patrons for the new season. It plans to run the shows in October and November 2020, and in March and April 2021.

Challis said the company hope to have some type of theatre-related event this summer too, but the project is still in the works.

“We are just in the planning stages,” she said. “But we do hope to have some summer activities outdoors in August.”

More details are still to come.

“We are excited about it,” she said. “We are giving it a try. We’ll see just how well it is received.”

Challis said the company wants to hold a show soon because many people are hankering for more local theatre.

The last time the troupe held a production was in February, before the facility had to close in March due to the COVID-19 precautions.

The company was not able to run a show when it was originally scheduled for this past spring or a fundraiser event that was planned for Mother’s Day, so BCP is anxious to open its doors again.

“We’re fighting to keep alive quite frankly,” Challis said. “But just like everybody else we have to adapt, make changes and move forward.”

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