Community Theatre Festival
Each fall, West Virginia community theatre companies have an opportunity to strut their stuff at the West Virginia Community Theatre Festival presented in conjunction with the West Virginia Theatre Conference. A distinguished panel of judges selects a winner from among the entries, and the winning theatre company represents West Virginia at the Southeastern Theatre Conference held the following March. WVTC offers a stipend to the winner to offset the expenses of traveling to the Southeastern Theater Conference.
Each company to perform is allowed Rehearsal/Technical Time of 80 minutes in the performance space. The rehearsal time includes set-up from and strike to the on-deck area of all show related items. This time will be in reasonable proximity to the performance time. Rehearsal attendance will be restricted to the company in rehearsal, the festival technical staff, the Festival Chair, the Festival Commission Representative, and any other personnel requested by the rehearsing company. No one else will be permitted in the house, on the stage, in the control booths, or in the backstage area during this rehearsal period without the specific permission of the rehearsing company, the Festival Chair and the Festival Commission Representative.
Each performing company has a maximum of 10 minutes to set-up, 60 minutes to perform, and 10 minutes to strike. Each has a free choice of material (a one-act, a cutting, a selected act, etc.). The total length of the performance may not exceed sixty minutes (including introductions, scene changes, and curtain calls). Anything that brings the audience into the world of the play (music, sound, movement, lights, etc.) will begin the sixty-minute performance time. The complete cessation of such will complete the timing period. If a set-up or strike is intended to set mood, establish character, or entertain the audience in any way, it will be considered part of the sixty-minute performance time. It is inadvisable to enter material that may require more than fifty-five minutes to perform. Audience response may add time."
Contact Lydia Mong for more information.
Sign language or other personnel-based
accommodations require 30 day advance notice.