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2020 Coming Attractions

And Then There Were None

By Agatha Christie
Directed by Amanda Gieni

January 30 – February 1st, 2020

Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they’re unwilling to reveal and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. As the weather turns and the group is cut off from the mainland, the bloodbath begins and one by one they are brutally murdered in accordance with the lines of a sinister nursery rhyme.

Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play

by Joe Landry
Directed by Richard Medernach and Ian Elliott

June 11-13, 2020

Spies, murder, love, and other trademarks of Alfred Hitchcock come to life in the style of a 1940s radio broadcast of the master of suspense’s earlier films. With The Lodger, Sabotage and The 39 Steps, Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play is a triple feature, complete with vintage commercials, that recreates a daring train chase, a serial killer’s ominous presence, and a devastating explosion through the magic of live sound effects and musical underscoring.

About

Newman Players is the theatre group at St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Under the direction of Richard Medernach, we offer students, faculty, staff and alumni opportunities to be part of our drama productions – all in 3D! Most of our productions are presented in the Fr. O’Donnell Auditorium at STM College.

Past productions include:

The Doctor in Wonderland (2019)
Emma (2018)
Drop Dead Juliet, and Hamlet: Zombie Killer of Denmark (2018)
Excalibur: The Story of Young King Arthur (2017)
Fools (2016)
Arsenic and Old Lace (2016)
Sleeping Beauty (2015)
Persuasion (2015)
Mmmbeth (2014)
The 39 Steps (2014)
The Phantom Tollbooth (2013)
Much Ado About Nothing (2013)
A Seussified Christmas Carol (2012)
Drop, And Go to Innisfree, The Bathroom Door (2012)
Anne of Green Gables (2012)
A Christmas Carol Radio Play (2011)
The Princess and the Pea (2011)
Wyrd Sisters (2011)
Pride and Prejudice (2010)
A Man for All Seasons (2010)
The Second Shepherd’s Play (2009)
Lear’s Shadow and The York Plays (2008)
The Importance of Being Earnest (2007)
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2006)
Godspell (2005)
Hamlette and Illegal Playwrighting Class (2004)
Everyman (2004)
Jesus Christ Superstar (2003)

To contact us, please phone 306-966-8946 or email rmedernach@stmcollege.ca

Auditions

Auditions postponed as a COVID-19 precaution. We are looking at two options:

A) cast in early May and keep the June Production plan, and

B) cast in September and move the production to Oct/Nov. Updates will be posted here and on our social media.

Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play

By Joe Landry
Directed by Richard Medernach and Ian Elliott

Auditions are available in 10 minute time slots on

Sunday March 22 between 1:30 and 3:30 PM

Monday March 23 between 7:00-9:00 PM

Please contact rmedernach@stmcollege.ca if you cannot make an available audition time and would like to make alternate arrangements.

All auditions will take place on stage in the Fr. O’Donnell Auditorium (STM 140).

Show us your talent for voice and accents. You will be asked to read from the script. You don’t need to have a monologue prepared, but we will allow you to perform a two-minute (or less) piece that demonstrates your voice acting prowess!

Production dates are June 11-13th and the main rehearsal period will be May 1st through June 10th