| Season 23 |
| Apr 20 to Apr 25, 1936 |
The Little Theatre hosted 22 groups from across Canada over six nights in this fourth edition of the Dominion Drama Festival adjudicated by noted British critic and playwright Harley Granville Barker, and under the patronage of Lord and Lady Tweedsmuir. (Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King attended some of the performances.)
The ODL was represented by "Winterset" on April 24 and by "The Late Christopher Bean" on April 25 after they had won the top two production awards at the Eastern Ontario Regional Drama Festival in Kingston in February. (For cast and crews of both these plays, see February 25, 1936.)
At the conclusion of the Festival, Granville-Barker chose the London Drama League's "Twenty-Five Cents" by W. Eric Harris as the winner of the Bessborough Trophy for Best Production - the first time a Canadian play had won the honour.
