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FESTIVAL OF EARLY DRAMA: CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS!

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CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS

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FESITVAL OF EARLY DRAMA

JUNE 5 – 7 2015

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Poculi Ludique Societas (PLS), Toronto’s renowned medieval and renaissance players, continues its year-long celebration of 50 years of performance research practice at the University of Toronto with our FESTIVAL OF EARLY DRAMA (#FoED2015).

FoED2015 includes productions by 15 medieval and renaissance theatre groups from across North America. Helping us to celebrate will be university theatre groups that hail from New Orleans to Indiana, as well as the University of Western Ontario, Brock, and McMaster Universities, among others. PLS will also present our own production of Mankind, which is travelling to The Cloisters in New York City May 23 – 24, 2015 before returning to Toronto to headline our roster of productions.

To make our festival a real success, we need the support of our fantastic volunteers. We need people to be costumed guides who can direct our audiences to the various venues on campus; help set up venues; help with our tickets and information desk; and other general help.

WHEN: We need people who can help us out for 4-hour shifts (as many as you can take) over three days of the festival.

May 25:     Volunteer Orientation 6pm – 7:30 pm

May 30      Volunteer Orientation 1 pm – 2:30 pm

June 4:

Setting up venues 5pm – 8 pm

June 5:

Venue set-up 8:30 am – 5 pm

June 6:

Venue set up 8:30 am – 11 am

Guides and Ushers 10 am – 8:30 pm

June 7:

Guides and Ushers 10 am – 5 pm

Venue break-down and clean-up 5pm – 7 pm

WHO WE NEED:     A variety of enthusiastic volunteers who are either

*punctual and can help move props and help our companies set up for each show.

*or punctual and enjoy working with the public and helping them get the most out of our festival.

*and can sit or stand for up to 2 hours at info or ticket booths.

Please join us as we celebrate our 50th. There will be lots of free shows to attend and a great team to work with.

Contact us at producerplspls@gmail.com if you are interested in helping us out!

 

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FESTIVAL OF EARLY DRAMA (FoED 2015)

This year marks our 50th anniversary and as part of our birthday year celebrations, we’re staging a Festival of Early Drama on June 5-7 2015. The festival includes productions by over 20 theatre groups from around the world who are coming to Toronto especially for this special event. The festival will include international plays from the medieval to the early modern eras, and will be performed in English and some in French.

Most of our production companies hail from colleges and universities around the world and are old friends who have been involved in our previous productions of the complete 48 plays of the York Cycle (1977, 1998), the 32 plays of the Chester Cycle (1983, 2010), and other very large-scale projects.

For more information, visit the FoED2015 website at http://foed2015.weebly.com/

 

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2014 – 2015 Season

Fulgens and Lucres
Co-production of Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies and Poculi Ludique Societas

This November, PLS will kick off its 50-year anniversary with a full-scale production of Henry Medwall’s Fulgens and Lucres, the first play to be printed in English (1481). Fulgens, a semi-serious comedy about the nature of nobility (like Shakespeare, but rawer, rougher, zanier, and written 100 years earlier) was intended to be staged as the entertainment for a banquet. Just like the original producers did, we will mount our production of Fulgens and Lucres for feast-goers in a grand dining hall with live music by Pneuma Ensemble. The opening performance will be a gala banquet in West Hall, University College, 15 Kings College Circle, on Saturday November 8, followed by a matinee on Sunday November 9. For the second weekend (November 14-16) we will move to the Luella Massey Studio Theatre, 4 Glen Morris Streetwhere there will be a more modest “banquet” setting.

**Due to limited seating, gala performance tickets must be purchased in advance by Monday November 3rd. Reservations for other performances should be made by calling the box office: 416 978-7986.

Director: Matthew Milo Sergi
Producer: Kimberley Radmacher
Costume Designer: Linda Phillips
Musicians: Pneuma Ensemble

Performances: West Hall, University College:

Gala Banquet: November 8 at 7 pm for 7:30 – Tickets $80
Matinee: Sunday November 9 at 2 pm – Tickets $20/ $15 Senior/ $10 Student

Luella Massey Studio Theatre, 4 Glen Morris Street

Friday, November 14, 7:30 pm
Saturday, November 15, &:30 pm
Sunday November 16, 2 pm

Tickets: All Performances $20/ $15 Senior/ $10 Student

Box Office: 416 978-7986


A Medieval Christmas: With Song We Seek Our Savior
Co-Production with St.Thomas’s Anglican Church and Poculi Ludique Societas

St. Thomas Anglican Church  383 Huron St., Toronto

Friday December 12, 7:30pm
Saturday December 13, 2:00pm and 7:30

Tickets: $20/$15 Senior/$10 Student
To reserve tickets call 416-978-5096


Festival of Early Theatre (FoED2015)

June 5-7, 2015

This year marks our 50th anniversary and as part of our birthday year celebrations, we’re staging a Festival of Early Drama on June 5-7 2015. The festival includes productions by over 20 theatre groups from around the world who are coming to Toronto especially for this special event. The festival will include international plays from the medieval to the early modern eras, and will be performed in English and some in French.

Most of our production companies hail from colleges and universities around the world and are old friends who have been involved in our previous productions of the complete 48 plays of the York Cycle (1977, 1998), the 32 plays of the Chester Cycle (1983, 2010), and other very large-scale projects.

This family-friendly festival will offer a mix of indoor ticketed performances, as well as many PWYC outdoor productions, concessions and interactive activities.

Check out the official FoED2015 website here.

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