A local theatre group recently won several awards.
The Dewdney Players Group Theatre presented several plays at the One Act Play Festival in High River last weekend.
The Alberta Drama Festival Association has ten regions in Alberta, with Dewdney Players falling into the Foothills Region.
According to producer Ed Sands the Foothills Region covers a wide geographical range, with this year's regional festival including eight plays from companies in Airdrie, Okotoks, Canmore, Cochrane, and High River.
"We each get a chance to perform our plays once and a theatre professional was the adjudicator," explained Sands. "And then the adjudicator watches all the plays."
The adjudicator provides a summary of what he liked in the plays, and then each group gets 15 to 20 minutes with the adjudicator, where he goes more in-depth about what he liked.
During the festival, they chose winners in several different categories.
Those include Outstanding Performance, Outstanding Production, Outstanding Technical Merit, Outstanding Director, and Outstanding New Work.
"When the dust settled on Saturday night, a play presented by Okotoks' Dewdney Players really cleaned house."
Their play Three Little Words was awarded the Outstanding Technical Merit, Outstanding New Work, Outstanding Direction, and Outstanding Production.
The other play the Dewdney Players presented, I've Hit an Iceberg, won Melanie Swennumson an Outstanding Performance award, and was the Honourable Mention for the Outstanding Production award.
"The consequence of having [won] Outstanding production, is our play then gets to move onto the provincial One Act Play festival, which is in Medicine Hat this year at the end of May," Sands explains.
At that festival, the play will be up against plays from all across the province.
The Provincial Festival will take place at the Medicine Hat High School Theatre on May 31.
To learn more about the Provincial festival, click here.