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Terrace Little Theatre wins provincial awards

TERRACE LITTLE Theatre won two awards at the provincial theatre festival after an accident on the way there nearly stopped the production.
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Best Novice or Youth Award was shared by Erica Wilson and Melayna Ross

TERRACE LITTLE Theatre won two awards at the provincial theatre festival in  Kamloops after an accident on the way there nearly stopped the production from going on.

Its production of Perfect Pie “brought the house down when Erica Wilson and Melayna Ross, festival darlings, shared the Best Novice or Youth Award for their portrayal of two girls from opposite sides of the tracks aging from eight to 16 years,” said director Marianne Weston upon their return from Mainstage 2013.

“Their hard-hitting yet heart-warming production of Canadian theatre icon Judith Thompson’s “Perfect Pie” garnered a standing ovation.”

The show was almost pulled down when actors Laura and Melayna Ross, mother and daughter, hit a moose outside Prince George, totalling their van and injuring both, who went on to deliver solid performances to a large house, said Weston. Throughout the week, the ensemble received daily accolades in the streets and at the festival events, she added.

Despite being up against some very stiff competition, the show also won a “Thespian” for Best Lighting for designer Eryn Griffith and operator Trina Botelho.

Terrace has twice before captured the Best Novice or Youth Award: Dale Sebastian in “Someday” by Skeena River Players directed by Marianne Weston and for Ella Martindale in TLT’s “The Secret Garden” directed by Chris Stone in 2007.