Live Bait Theatre
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Live Bait Theatre is a professional theatre company based in Sackville, New Brunswick
, in Canada
. Established in 1988, it continues to have a vested interest in supporting and encouraging both up-and-coming and well-known Maritime actors and playwrights.
Notable performers at Live Bait include Rita MacNeil, Blakie and the Rodeo Kings, This Hour Has 22 Minutes Cathy Jones, Lorne Elliot, and the Barra-MacNeils, among others.
The company has also produced over forty-five mainstage shows, along with a score of Atlantic-themed dinner theatres, musical revues, and other performance events and playwriting/reading workshops.
Artistic Director Karen Valanne is currently planning a gala revue for the summer of 2008, which, along with a concurrently-published book of memories and reminiscences (compiled by Charlie Rhindress and Sandy Burnett), will help to celebrate its 20th year in operation. The theatre's 2008 season will also feature two newly commissioned plays as part of Canada's Cultural Capital grant program, of which Sackville, New Brunswick
was recently a recipient.
Among playwrights whose works have been performed by the company are:
Sackville, New Brunswick
Sackville is a Canadian town in Westmorland County, New Brunswick.Mount Allison University is located in the town...
, in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. Established in 1988, it continues to have a vested interest in supporting and encouraging both up-and-coming and well-known Maritime actors and playwrights.
Notable performers at Live Bait include Rita MacNeil, Blakie and the Rodeo Kings, This Hour Has 22 Minutes Cathy Jones, Lorne Elliot, and the Barra-MacNeils, among others.
The company has also produced over forty-five mainstage shows, along with a score of Atlantic-themed dinner theatres, musical revues, and other performance events and playwriting/reading workshops.
Artistic Director Karen Valanne is currently planning a gala revue for the summer of 2008, which, along with a concurrently-published book of memories and reminiscences (compiled by Charlie Rhindress and Sandy Burnett), will help to celebrate its 20th year in operation. The theatre's 2008 season will also feature two newly commissioned plays as part of Canada's Cultural Capital grant program, of which Sackville, New Brunswick
Sackville, New Brunswick
Sackville is a Canadian town in Westmorland County, New Brunswick.Mount Allison University is located in the town...
was recently a recipient.
Among playwrights whose works have been performed by the company are:
- Mark BlagraveMark BlagraveMark Blagrave is a Canadian writer, especially of plays and short stories, and Professor of English and Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Science at Huron University College....
- Don HannahDon HannahDon Hannah is a Canadian playwright and novelist. He won a Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award for his first play, The Wedding Script....
- Jan Kudelka
- Jenny Munday
- Charlie RhindressCharlie RhindressCharlie Rhindress is an actor, playwright and director living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Born in Amherst, Nova Scotia and educated at Mount Allison University, he is a co-founder and former Artistic Director of Live Bait Theatre, based in Sackville, New Brunswick...
- Pete Soucy