| Life Before Noon; Not All Who Grieve; There's Many a Slip | |
|---|---|
| by | |
| Graham Murray | Life Before Noon |
| Jack Blacklock | Not All Who Grieve |
| Catherine Saunders | There's Many a Slip |
| Season 45 |
| Oct 3 to Oct 5, 1957 |
The Workshop - Winners of the 19th Canadian Playwriting Competition; EODL 1958 Regional Festival entries (one-act)
These three one-act plays were adjudicated by Rev. D. Driscoll, playwright and teacher of drama at St. Patrick's College. On the final night, Dr. A.W. Trueman, director of the Canada Council presented First Prize in the Playwriting Competition to Graham Murray of Hamilton. The adjudicator named Ruth Ruggles as Best Director for "Not All Who Grieve", Elizabeth Hicks as Best Actress for "Not All Who Grieve", and Omar Chowdhury as Best Actor for "There's Many a Slip".
The second prize winner "Not All Who Grieve" was performed again as the OLT entry into the 1958 Eastern Ontario Regional Drama Festival held at Fisher Park Highschool, Ottawa, Feb. 11-15, 1958, with the same cast, except that Dorothy Burnett replaced Dolores Cunningham as Mrs. Robertson.
There it won the Kingston Cup for Best Canadian Play, and Elizabeth Hicks won Best Actress for both this play and "The Grass Harp", OLT's full-length entry into the same festival.
| Cast | ||
|---|---|---|
| Margaret (Maggie) Morris | Life Before Noon: Mrs. Carrick | |
| Hugh Petrie | Life Before Noon: Hamish Carrick | |
| Sonya Donaldson | Life Before Noon: Louella Otis | |
| Roy Hayden-Hinsley | Life Before Noon: Mr. Otis | |
| Elizabeth Hicks | Not All Who Grieve: Mrs. McKay | |
| Bernard (Barney) McManus | Not All Who Grieve: Ian McKay | |
| Beatrice Whitfield | Not All Who Grieve: Mrs. Peters | |
| Dolores Cunningham | Not All Who Grieve: Mrs. Robertson | |
| Elizabeth Morgan | Not All Who Grieve: Mrs. McCorquodale | |
| Edwin (Eddie) Nunn | Not All Who Grieve: John Robertson | |
| Thomas (Tom) Broughton | Not All Who Grieve: Villager | |
| Michael MacConnaill | Not All Who Grieve: Villager | |
| Elizabeth (Liz) Conlon (Oliver) | Not All Who Grieve: Villager | |
| Elizabeth Cayton | Not All Who Grieve: Villager | |
| Helen Cremin | There's Many a Slip: Mrs. Blair | |
| Omar Chowdhury | There's Many a Slip: John Carson | |
| Erin Carpenter | There's Many a Slip: Lida | |
| Helen Levine | There's Many a Slip: Agnes Blair | |
| Michael (Mike) Cremin | There's Many a Slip: Peter |
| Production Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Ruth Ruggles (Burkholder Ruggles) | Director | Not All Who Grieve |
| Janet Smith | Director | There's Many a Slip |
| Michael H. McKay | Director | Life Before Noon |
| Isabel Halbert | Assistant to the Director | There's Many a Slip |
| George L. Palmer | Set Design | Life Before Noon |
| Thomas (Tom) Broughton | Set Design | Not All Who Grieve |
| Tom Lynch | Set Design | There's Many a Slip |
| Elizabeth (Liz) Conlon (Oliver) | Properties | Not All Who Grieve |
| Bette Dyson | Properties | Life Before Noon |
| Connie Clark | Properties | There's Many a Slip |
| Elizabeth Cayton | Properties | Not All Who Grieve |
| Felicity Hale | Properties | There's Many a Slip |
| Lillian Armstrong | Book (Prompter) | Not All Who Grieve |
| Doris Holmes | Book (Prompter) | There's Many a Slip |
| Michael H. McKay | Sound Effects | Not All Who Grieve |