Stunning Images of Burning Vision - Opens Wednesday, April 10th, 2013

Burning Vision, by Marie Clements and directed by Artistic Director Sarah Van Tassel, is the next production up on our decks.  It opens next week.  Here are a few of the images from this week's media call.  Photos by Douglas Stewart.

You can see all of the photos here. 

That show was so much fun! How do I get Copies of the Archive Photos to Remember it?

Anyone who has done a show at Walterdale in recent history knows that there are two occasions when photos are taken to help record and promote the show.  The first time is for Media Call.  Walterdale is fortunate to have Douglas Dollars Stewart come in and take photos that are used to promote the show.  Those photos can be found in the Theatre Gallery on Douglas' website Rad Grandpa.  He has been taking our media photos since the Fall of 2006. Thanks Douglas!

The second photo taking occasion happens at the archive photo shoot.  Over time the procedure for getting pictures has evolved.  In the past, Directors were given a set of photos and then they distributed them to their casts as requested.  This,however, was challenging if the Director moved or somehow became unreachable and someone wanted photos some time after the show. Now we are using a Drop Box system to help our membership access those precious photos in an easier way.

Our Archivist, Lance Dittrich, describes the evolution and present policy as follows:


"Once upon a time, Directors would receive a set of slides. Time passed and then Directors received a disk. In both situations, the Directors would make copies, as they deemed fit, for members of the show including cast and crew. Again time passed and we decided to implement the Dropbox application which would allow us to provide all qualifying members to download a copy of the Archive photos for the show in question. They would be required to email the archives (me) to declare their request and their qualifications. Qualified means "member of cast/crew/and paid membership". We also have a waiver (to protect Walterdale) stating that the material would not be used in any manner damaging to Walterdale or the photographer."


We are lucky to have Lance looking after our history in this way and providing this valuable service to our membership.  Thanks Lance!

* photo from Black Hearts in the Green Room by Douglas Dollars Stewart

Media Call - The Weir on deck at Walterdale!

Wednesday was our media call for The Weir.  Douglas Dollars Stewart came in and did another fabulous job capturing the spirit of the show in pictures.  You can check them out here.

Media Call - Nine

Tonight was media call for Nine.  We had a great time doing interviews and taking pictures.  Check out the great photos taken by our photographer, Douglas Stewart.

Photo above features Kristin Johnston as Luisa Contini and Cory Christensen as Guido Contini.

Opening this week... The Love of the Nightingale

As always, the wonderful Douglas Dollars-Stewart came it to take some media photos for our upcoming show. The Love of the Nightingale opens this Wednesday (April 4th) at Walterdale. Please enjoy the sneak peek!

http://gallery.radgrandpa.com/Event-Photography/Theatre/Love-of-the-Nightingale/22163073_cLgJ6s#!i=1769728353&k=nbTK6ZG

Heading to Texas - the Lone Star State! Yee Haw!

Tonight is our Full Dress for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. This show certainly packs a punch - lovely, lace-clad southern women, stompin' football players, a cursing sheriff, colourful local townspeople, a maniacal TV Reporter, an evasive Governor and a beautiful and smart Madam at the centre of it all. I have been busy juggling media, set-painting and directing this week but the show is so fun it doesn't even seem like work!

Media Photos were taken earlier this week and you can check them out in the link. Some great shots merely scratching the surface of what you will see. Notice, we saved the sexy ladies for a surprise - you gotta come to the show to catch them. Thanks to Douglas Stewart for the great photos!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/douglasdollars/sets/72157624271958035/detail

Media Photos

Douglas (Dollars) Stewart came in and took some wonderful media photos for Beautiful Thing. Here's one of my favorites. The rest can be seen at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=150794&id=192621036890&l=f87d12d3a0

Douglas Stewart has been doing our media call photos for a few years now. He's a great asset to Walterdale and does his best to serve the needs of each production. He also really appreciates the work of all our designers and will often take photos of just the set or detail photos of the costumes. His pictures are fabulous! Glad to have him around!