Globe Theatre, Regina
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The Globe Theatre in Regina, Saskatchewan
, was founded in 1966 by Ken and Sue Kramer. It was the first professional educational theatre company and the only professional theatre company in Saskatchewan
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Hall) at the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts and then moved to rented quarters in downtown Regina. In 1981, the company acquired its own permanent space in the Prince Edward Building
(Old City Hall, formerly the Old Regina Post Office), a heritage building on 11th Avenue and Scarth Street.
Prince Edward
, as a member of the Canadian Royal Family, granted his royal patronage
to Globe Theatre in 1992.
The Globe Theatre is currently under the leadership of Artistic Director Ruth Smillie, who succeeded Susan Ferley in 1998. Ferley served as Artistic Director of the Globe Theatre from 1990 (when Ken Kramer retired following the death of Sue Kramer) to 1998. Being a non-profit organisation, the Globe Theatre is overseen by a volunteer Board of Directors, elected by the members of the Globe Theatre Society.
Throughout the Kramers' tenure, the Globe Theatre premiered a large number of new works by playwrights Brian Way and Rex Devrell, the latter of whom would go on to publish a book of plays from his time at the Globe Theatre. In more recent years, the Globe Theatre has seen premiers of works by author/playwright Gail Bowen
, theatre artist Joey Tremblay, and a variety of young artists through their Shumiatcher Sandbox Series.
With an annual operating budget of roughly two million dollars, The Globe Theatre is Saskatchewan's largest professional theatre company, programming as many as ten productions between its mainstage season and Shumiatcher Sandbox Series. The Globe Theatre's EVRAZ Mainstage is Canada's only permanent, professional "theatre-in-the-round", seating 406 patrons. Globe Theatre is a member of PACT (Professional Association of Canadian Theatres, and engages its stage management, actors, and artists under the Canadian Theatre Agreement (CTA) through the Canadian Actors' Equity Association
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The Globe Theatre is greatly involved in the development of new talent, and boasts a popular theatre school program for children and adolescents, and an actor conservatory program for adults, to train the next series of professional actors and develop a company within the Regina area. Globe Theatre implemented a new strategic plan beginning in the 2009|2010 season with the overarching vision: Globe Theatre is a national centre of excellence in the production of theatre-in-the-round and in fostering the work of Saskatchewan artists.
Regina, Saskatchewan
Regina is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The city is the second-largest in the province and a cultural and commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. It is governed by Regina City Council. Regina is the cathedral city of the Roman Catholic and Romanian Orthodox...
, was founded in 1966 by Ken and Sue Kramer. It was the first professional educational theatre company and the only professional theatre company in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....
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Background
The Globe was first in the Jubilee Theatre (subsequently remained several times but in the Globe Theatre's time there most continuously known as HanbidgeRobert Hanbidge
Robert Leith Hanbidge was a Canadian lawyer, municipal, provincial and federal politician, and the 12th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan.-Early life:...
Hall) at the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts and then moved to rented quarters in downtown Regina. In 1981, the company acquired its own permanent space in the Prince Edward Building
Prince Edward Building (Regina)
The Prince Edward Building is the current official name of the historic post office building in Regina, Saskatchewan, located at the corner of Scarth Street and 11th Avenue. The site had been occupied by Knox Presbyterian Church until it was demolished.The post office was designed in the...
(Old City Hall, formerly the Old Regina Post Office), a heritage building on 11th Avenue and Scarth Street.
Prince Edward
Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex KG GCVO is the third son and fourth child of Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh...
, as a member of the Canadian Royal Family, granted his royal patronage
Patronage
Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another. In the history of art, arts patronage refers to the support that kings or popes have provided to musicians, painters, and sculptors...
to Globe Theatre in 1992.
The Globe Theatre is currently under the leadership of Artistic Director Ruth Smillie, who succeeded Susan Ferley in 1998. Ferley served as Artistic Director of the Globe Theatre from 1990 (when Ken Kramer retired following the death of Sue Kramer) to 1998. Being a non-profit organisation, the Globe Theatre is overseen by a volunteer Board of Directors, elected by the members of the Globe Theatre Society.
Throughout the Kramers' tenure, the Globe Theatre premiered a large number of new works by playwrights Brian Way and Rex Devrell, the latter of whom would go on to publish a book of plays from his time at the Globe Theatre. In more recent years, the Globe Theatre has seen premiers of works by author/playwright Gail Bowen
Gail Bowen
Gail Dianne Bowen, née Bartholomew is a Canadian playwright and writer of mystery novels.Born in Toronto, Ontario, Bowen was educated at the University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo and the University of Saskatchewan...
, theatre artist Joey Tremblay, and a variety of young artists through their Shumiatcher Sandbox Series.
With an annual operating budget of roughly two million dollars, The Globe Theatre is Saskatchewan's largest professional theatre company, programming as many as ten productions between its mainstage season and Shumiatcher Sandbox Series. The Globe Theatre's EVRAZ Mainstage is Canada's only permanent, professional "theatre-in-the-round", seating 406 patrons. Globe Theatre is a member of PACT (Professional Association of Canadian Theatres, and engages its stage management, actors, and artists under the Canadian Theatre Agreement (CTA) through the Canadian Actors' Equity Association
Canadian Actors' Equity Association
Canadian Actors' Equity Association is an association of performers in English Canada who are engaged in live performances before paying audiences in theatre, opera and dance...
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The Globe Theatre is greatly involved in the development of new talent, and boasts a popular theatre school program for children and adolescents, and an actor conservatory program for adults, to train the next series of professional actors and develop a company within the Regina area. Globe Theatre implemented a new strategic plan beginning in the 2009|2010 season with the overarching vision: Globe Theatre is a national centre of excellence in the production of theatre-in-the-round and in fostering the work of Saskatchewan artists.
Globe Theatre's Values
- Embrace new ideas and new art practices
- Open and inviting
- Inspirational
- Passionate
- Achieve the highest standards in art and business
Artistic Directors
- Ken Kramer (1966-1989)
- Susan Ferley (1989-1998)
- Ruth Smillie (1998-present)
2007/2008 IPSCO Main Stage Season
- Death and the MaidenDeath and the Maiden (play)Death and the Maiden is a 1990 play by Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman. The world premiere was staged at the Royal Court Theatre in London on 9 July 1991, directed by Lindsay Posner...
by Ariel DorfmanAriel DorfmanVladimiro Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina since 1985.-Personal... - The Melville Boys by Norm FosterNorm Foster (playwright)Norm Foster is a Canadian playwright, considered to be Canada's most produced playwright. Foster discovered his talents as a playwright in Fredericton, New Brunswick, while he was working as host of a popular morning radio show. He accompanied a friend to an audition, and landed his first acting...
- A Christmas CarolA Christmas CarolA Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visits of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of...
by Charles DickensCharles DickensCharles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...
, adapted by Michael Shamata - Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks by Richard Alfieri
- Elephant Wake by Joey Tremblay
- Girl In The Goldfish Bowl (sic) by Morris PanychMorris PanychStephen Morris Panych is a Canadian playwright, director and actor.Morris Panych was born in Calgary and grew up in Edmonton. He studied at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, and the University of British Columbia...
2008/2009 Globe Theatre Main Stage Season
- A Midsummer Night's DreamA Midsummer Night's DreamA Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta...
by William ShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"... - Anne of Green Gables, a MusicalAnne of Green GablesAnne of Green Gables is a bestselling novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery published in 1908. Set in 1878, it was written as fiction for readers of all ages, but in recent decades has been considered a children's book...
from the novel by L. M. Montgomery - Sexy Laundry by Michelle Riml
- Wingfield's InfernoWingfield SeriesThe Wingfield Cycle is a Canadian series of seven one-man plays - Letter from Wingfield Farm, Wingfield's Progress, Wingfield's Folly, Wingfield Unbound, Wingfield on Ice, Wingfield's Inferno and "Wingfield Lost and Found" - written by Dan Needles, directed by Douglas Beattie and performed by Rod...
by Dan NeedlesDan NeedlesDan Needles is best known as the playwright behind the popular Wingfield Series which has played across Canada for many years. It was performed at the Stratford Festival of Canada and was aired, in part, on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.... - Mesa by Doug Curtis
- Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick ShanleyJohn Patrick ShanleyJohn Patrick Shanley is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. He also contributed articles on the performing arts to The New York Times among other publications.-Life and career:...
2008/2009 Shumiatcher Sandbox Series
- Tales from the Gap by Joel FafardJoel FafardJoel Fafard, November 18, 1968. Fafard is a Canadian finger-style and slide guitarist from Saskatchewan. He now lives on the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia....
- Skin&Lungs - Storytelling with its own Heartbeat by Ryan Beil & Jayden Pfeifer
- Xippie: says LOL created by Marie-Claire Marcotte & Rebecca Davey
- A Few Shiny Pieces (A Fusion Project), originally created by Joey Tremblay
- Riddle Me This by Johanna Bundon
2009/2010 Globe Theatre Main Stage Season
- The Alice Nocturne by Joey Tremblay
- Peter Pan By J.M. Barrie Adapted by Jeff Pitcher
- Marion Bridge by Daniel Macivor
- Tuesdays With Morrie By Jeffrey Hatcher & Mitch Albom, Based on the Book by Mitch Albom
- The Syringa Tree by Pamela Gien
- A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Frank McGuinness
2009/2010 Shumiatcher Sandbox Series
- A Spoon We Are Not Created and Performed by FadaDance
- The Unforeseen Journey of Nathanial Dunbar and Other Tales of Whimsical Sadness created by Melanie Hankewich & Jeremy Sauer
- whyrobotsmakebetterlovers created by Johanna Bundon & Lee Henderson
- Fusion Directed by Johanna Bundon & Jayden Pfeifer
- Bertha Created & Performed by Lucy Hill
- The Tooth Fairy Created, Conceived & Performed by The Old Trout Puppet Workshop & David Rhymer
See also
- Globe TheatreGlobe TheatreThe Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613...
of Shakespeare - List of Canadian organizations with royal patronage
- Saskatchewan Royal Connections
- Culture in ReginaCulture in ReginaRegina, Saskatchewan has a rich cultural life in music, theatre and dance, amply supported by the substantial fine arts constituency at the University of Regina, which has a large fine arts department including faculties of music and theatre. At various times this has attracted notable artistic...