Nose Creek Players has released the schedule for its upcoming season, which features plenty of live performances on the horizon.
Airdrie's local theatre group is prepping for another season of live shows that highlight the city's actors and theatre community.
According to Karalee Braun, a board member for Nose Creek Players and the non-profit group’s director of sponsorship, the 2022-23 season kicks off with an early December Christmas production. This year’s holiday-themed play will be called A Christmas Hero and will run on Dec. 9 and 10 at Hillside Church in King’s Heights.
Once the calendar has crossed over into 2023, Nose Creek Players will put on an event Braun calls Suds and Soliloquys, where Airdronians can learn how to prepare a short monologue and then perform it in front of a small gathering of people at 948 Brewing Company.
“We’re going to have a writing class where you can learn to write your own monologue and then we’re going to perform,” explained Braun. “We’ll have some of the beers 948 provides. It’s just kind of an evening to celebrate the arts and individuals within it.”
Nose Creek Players’ marquee show of the season will be its springtime production of Alice in Wonderland. The troupe will put on three performances of the iconic play at the Bert Church LIVE Theatre on May 26 and 27, 2023.
Lastly, Braun said that in June 2023, Nose Creek Players is hosting a one-woman show called The Pink Unicorn in partnership with Airdrie Pride Society. That will be among the yearly Pride Fest activities.
While auditions for A Christmas Hero and The Pink Unicorn have already passed, Braun said the Alice in Wonderland auditions will be on Jan. 15 and 16.
But even if Airdronians aren’t interested in testing their acting chops on stage, Braun said Nose Creek Players provides plenty of other opportunities to get involved. She said every show requires volunteers to help with behind-the-scenes tasks like set design, prop, and costume development, as well as front-of-house duties like ushering or ticket-taking.
“Some people we talk to at events say, ‘I could never get on stage,’ and we say there are lots of other opportunities for you,” she said.
For those who have never been to a Nose Creek Players production before, Braun said she would encourage locals to come check out a performance this season. She noted that while many Airdrie residents travel to Calgary to get their live arts fix, there are plenty of opportunities to see great theatre in Airdrie as well.
“I kind of feel we deal with that a little bit with Airdrie vs. Calgary, just because Calgary is a much larger community and they have more opportunities,” she said. “But we have a local community theatre group in Airdrie and we’d love for people to stay here. We do offer quality performances and productions that we believe are on par with a lot of the community theatre groups in Calgary.”
For more information on Nose Creek Players, visit Nosecreekplayers.com
