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Rivertown Players coming to a park near you! Scheduling has been completed and the Kamloops Art Council’s Rivertown Players are back in full swing for another stellar season of interactive theatre entertainment. Trying to get an interview with these busy actors was not easy but well worth playing phone tag with booking coordinator, Erik Stephany. With fun, free children’s theatre performances at local Kamloops parks and events five days a week throughout the summer, the plays are accessible to everyone and the enthusiastic players are busy as can be! Each May, the KAC hires post-secondary theatre students through the Canada Summer Jobs program. Under the mentorship of a local theatre professional, the students then create full-scale productions from beginning to end. They cover every aspect of the production themselves including writing scripts, building sets, designing costumes and directing the actual production and learn first hand what kind of effort and commitment it takes to put together a series of plays in a short period of time. The dynamic trio of Rivertown Players this year includes Celine Majcher (stage manager), Josh Sunderman (director) and Erik Stephany (booking coordinator). All three actors attended TRU arts programs and feel their experience with Rivertown is unique
Rivertown Roll Call! Left to right: Josh Sunderman, Erik Stephany and Celine Majcher are this year’s talented Rivertown Players, bringing their family-fun interactive show to a park near you this summer.
and holds valuable future applications in careers, family and even daily life; and the children absolutely adore them! “We had a group of daycare children stay for both performances in Centennial Park, interacting with us and having fun with the productions,” says Josh, “When we finished the show and took our bows, the children all rushed up and hugged us. It was great!”
They were in full costume and full swing at the Art in the Park celebrations on Canada Day, interacting with the crowds and promoting activities they are involved with this summer. The unique contributions this troupe brings to live theatre helps foster the next generation of performing artists and inspire as well as entertain audiences who learn just how much fun it can be to get involved.
Students who have worked with the KAC Rivertown Players tend to secure paid positions with professional theatre companies after they finish the program and build careers in theatre, empowered with the confidence, support and knowledge they have taken from their experiences and applied to life. Seeing the players in action, I saw first hand how these able - continued on page 2
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