World Theatre Day: wrap party
The Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance (GVPTA) are inviting everyone to a wrap party to celebrate World Theatre Day.
The party takes place on March 28 at the venerable Wise Hall, 1882 Adanac St, Vancouver
The line up includes:
- Performances by True North Performance and Show Stoppers
- Reading of the World Theatre Day message
- Video of World Theatre Day events
- “Why I Love the Theatre” open mic
- Live blogging/video chats
- Raffle with fabulous prizes
- Cash Bar and appies, dancing and FUN!!
Doors open at 7:30, Show at 8:00 p.m. Admission by Donation.
World Theatre Day itself actually takes place on March 27. And here is what Dame Judi Dench has to say about the event in this year's official message:
World Theatre Day is an opportunity to celebrate Theatre in all its myriad forms. Theatre is a source of entertainment and inspiration and has the ability to unify the many diverse cultures and peoples that exist throughout the world. But theatre is more than that and also provides opportunities to educate and inform.
Theatre is performed throughout the world and not always in a traditional theatre setting. Performances can occur in a small village in Africa, next to a mountain in Armenia, on a tiny island in the Pacific. All it needs is a space and an audience. Theatre has the ability to make us smile, to make us cry, but should also make us think and reflect.
Theatre comes about through team work. Actors are the people who are seen, but there is an amazing set of people who are not seen. They are equally as important as the actors and their differing and specialist skills make it possible for a production to take place. They too must share in any triumphs and successes that may hopefully occur.
March 27 is always the official World Theatre Day. In many ways every day should be considered a theatre day, as we have a responsibility to continue the tradition to entertain, to educate and to enlighten our audiences, without whom we couldn’t exist.
You can find out more about World Theatre Day here and also here. In the interest of fairness, I should also mention that International Dance Day (which is a lot more fun to say) takes place on April 29th.