Cast

• Kristin Shepherd (Evelyn)
• Mitch Belanger (Andy)
• Kelly Boegel (Samantha)

Production Team:

• Vicki Boyer (Stage Manager)
• Carolyn Samuel (Sound Design & Tech)
• Jeremy Cormier (Lighting Design & Tech)
• Cheryl Miller (Producer)
• Tania Cicciarelli (Costumes)
• Marea Mainer (Assistant to the Cast)
• Rhona Kenny (Publicity)
• Chris Walkling & Rob McCubbin (Set Design)
• Glen Snyder (Set Building)
• Ed Regan (Poster Design)

Crew:

Josh Bainbridge / Mickey Deveau / Nigel Vaillancourt / Spencer King / Christine Larkin

Message from the director:

Apple is a play not just about real cancer, but also a story about how cancerous our lives can become. It reveals to us how we can be diseased with selfishness. We are presented with three people who are very much in need of healing. Andy, Lyn, and Sam seek for love and the search moves them apart from the lives to which they are accustomed, but closer to each other and, consequently, their true selves as well. The play provides us with an opportunity to recognize the power and promise that lies within a second chance, but also how dangerous it can be to always believe you'll get one.

-- Rob McCubbin

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Synopsis:

Andy is in trouble. Downsized from his job, his marriage in crisis, he looks to a mysterious young woman for salvation. But when his wife becomes seriously ill, Andy must make a choice: care for an estranged wife, or run away with a woman he knows little about. A Haunting tale of sex, secrets and second chances.

"...by the time you're chewing away at the core it has blossomed into an infinitely deeper, emotionally powerful and even comic play examining honesty in relationships, misdirected disdain, unintended consequences, the clarity of mortality and, ultimately, true love."

-- Vue Weekly

"...the eloquent story of a consuming love that burns itself out but then rises, peonix-like, from its own ashes to fly to new heights... aresonant story of resurrection and enduring love... The vacuum this play leaves in the mind and heart is not easy to fill when the curtain goes down."

-- Edmonton Sun

"A belief in the power, or at least the grace, of silence is one of the pluses of Apple, a tightly knotted, carefully crafted play where the concept of love gets dissected and scrutinized like a renegade cell under a microscope..."

-- Edmonton Journal

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Winner of the Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for Outstanding New Play (2002), and the winner of the Alberta Play Competition (2001).

Brought to you by Gateway Theatre Guild and Euphoria

What's New?
Quonta Festival 2008 Results are in!

Here's the Quonta Line-up

Tuesday, March 11/08:
ELATE presents Sylvia.

Wednesday, March 12/08:
Theatre SMC presents Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

Thursday, March 13/08:
Gore Bay Theatre presents The Love List.

Friday, March 14/08:
Gateway Theatre Guild presents Apple.

Saturday, March 15/08:
Espanola Little Theatre presents Office Hours.

At the brunch awards ceremony on Sunday, theatre veterans Sharon Sproule & Joyce Johnston along with Quonta 2008 host Ken Stephens, cut the first piece of Quonta cake!

Results

The awards were as follows:

Best Production:

Nominees were: Theatre SMC

Gore Bay

Winner Declared: Theatre SMC

Best Director:

Nominees were: Theatre SMC

Gore Bay

Winner Declared: Theatre SMC

Best Technical Presentation:

Nominees were: Theatre SMC

Gore Bay

Winner Declared: Theatre SMC

Best Visual Presentation:

Nominees were: Theatre SMC

Gore Bay

Espanola Little Theatre

Winner Declared: Theatre SMC

Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role:

Nominees were: Simon Gregory as Greg (ELATE)

Jake Mackan as Bill (Gore Bay)

Dario Laurenti as Gordon/Man (Espanola)

Winner Declared: Jake Mackan as Bill (Gore Bay)

Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role:

Nominees were: Shannon McLean as Kate (ELATE)

Tara Bernatchez as Justine (Gore Bay)

Kristin Shepherd as Evelyn (Gateway Theatre Guild)

Winner Declared: Kristin Shepherd as Evelyn (Gateway Theatre Guild)

Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role:

Nominees were: John Hawke as The Player (SMC)

David Edwards as Leon (Gore Bay)

Josh Morin as Alfred (SMC)

Winner Declared: David Edwards as Leon (Gore Bay)

Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role:

Nominees were: Jennifer Ramsay as Sylvia (ELATE)

Kelly Boegel as Samantha (Gateway Theatre Guild)

Sharon Sproule as Rhonda (Espanola)

Winner Declared: Jennifer Ramsay as Sylvia (ELATE)

1^st Adjudicator’s Award: Best Ensemble Play

Nominees were: SMC

Gore Bay

Gateway Theatre Guild

Winner Declared: Gore Bay – The Love List

2^nd Adjudicator’s Award: Outstanding Creative Contribution

NO NOMINATIONS

3^rd Adjudicator’s Award: Youth Award

Nominees were: Andrew Lorimer as Rosencrantz (SMC)

Chris Woodcock as Hamlet (SMC)

Winner Declared: Andrew Lorimer as Rosencrantz (SMC)

4^th Adjudicator’s Award: Special Moment in a Play

Nominees were: Hamlet & Ophilia moment from (SMC)

Gateway Theatre Guild – Moment for Lyn played by Kristin Shepherd (when she drops her coat from her shoulder’s in a low light at the foot of the stage as the set is revolved behind her and she is still reflecting on her life - the adjudicator Richard Howard described this as Lyn’s world was moving all around her full of life while she remain still and perhaps lifeless – this was a stunning moment)

Winner Declared: Gateway Theatre Guild – presented to Kristin Shepherd

5^th Adjudicator’s Award: Stong Contribution to Quonta 2008

Nominees were: Courage of ELATE to use original script of Sylvia

Gateway Theatre Guild’s decision to do Apple

Winner Declared: Gateway Theatre Guild’s decision to do Apple

THANK YOU ALL WHO CONTRIBUTED TO APPLE IN ALLOWING US TO TAKE THE SHOW TO QUONTA FESTIVAL AND FOR SUCH A GREAT EXPERIENCE!