The Elora Community Theatre’s production of That Summer that ran in November, has been recognized for excellence in directing and acting by the Western Ontario Drama League (WODL).
Directed by Julie Wheeler Bryant, That Summer focused on a family, young love, and how lives could never be the same following events that occurred in the summer of 1958 at a little cottage in southern Ontario.
Each March, the WODL hosts a drama festival where community theatre groups in this part of the province, such as ECT, have their plays adjudicated. There is a major week-long production of shows that are nominated “in festival,” but many shows cannot be remounted and are judged “out of festival” as a learning experience for cast and crew.
Each production makes a decision about entering or not entering the in festival event before the show is performed and judged.
That Summer was adjudicated “out of festival” and received three nominations for cast members Pat Dunn and Brianna Hastie, both for Best Supporting Actress, and Julie Wheeler-Bryant for Best Director.
Hastie received the Best Supporting Actress award, while director Julie Wheeler-Bryant won Best Director.
