Moose Jaw Community Players Acting Up During COVID-19

The Moose Jaw Community Players find themselves a bit of a dilemma this spring. While they should be preparing for their one-act cabaret to be shown at the Mae Wilson Theatre during Sidewalk Days, they instead find themselves sidelined like every other group and organization in these days of COVID-19. After staging a pair of wildly successful productions in the last year – The Last Five Years in April of 2019 and Paper Wheat this past November that were both smash hits – it stands to reason their anticipation would be high for whatever the Players were about to put on stage. Be assured, the local theatre group continues to hone their craft. And when they can get back on the stage whenever that may be, they’ll be putting out the same entertaining literal song and dance.

The Moose Jaw Community Players production of Paper Wheat was an overwhelming success this past fall.

Although the cabaret has been cancelled, Community Players president Jarrod Jeanson has organized a series of Reader’s Theatres that people can do from their home and post the results to the group’s Facebook page. That means even without regular rehearsals and a crowd to perform for, acting is still taking place, and folks are refining their craft. Children, adults and whomever wants to take part is welcome to do so. It certainly helps that in a time of social distancing and gatherings being limited to close friends and family for the time being, the Reader’s Theatre offers something else to do. Naturally, there’s no timeline or date for when things can return to some semblance of normalcy, even with Phase Three of the Re-Open Saskatchewan plan allowing larger gatherings of people. But when that time comes, they’ll be ready and able to go, Be sure to keep an eye on the Moose Jaw Community Players on Facebook for their latest updates.