A new theatre festival is highlighting local talent and using the backdrop of Maffeo Sutton Park as its stage.
The Island Summer Theatre Festival first premiered in Parksville on July 23 and will be running in Nanaimo from July 31 to Aug. 4. The festival is run by the Artists’ Collective Theatre which offers mentorships to young and new actors and actresses.
The festival will feature three shows: a rendition of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing set on a 1940s beach in Nanaimo, a whimsical retelling of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll in Alice’s Wonderland, and the bilingual Voices in My Body/Des Voix dans mon Corps which integrates dance and theatre.
CHLY speaks with Amanda Cutting, artistic director of the Artists’ Collective Theatre, and actress Delaney Irving who will be playing the lead role in Alice’s Wonderland.
