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ArtsceneSTA students heading to drama festival regional finalKuteyi). Both are Grade 12 stu-OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFFdents. The production team also had members from other grades.A group of four St. Thomas We all just came together, Aquinas Secondary School students Kennific said. Weve been talking is representing Halton Region at a about entering the Sears Drama southwestern regional competition Festival for a while.of a provincial drama festival.Chown said he enjoyed per-The Aquinas team and one from forming his character, whom he Burlingtons Nelson High School describes as a middle-aged slacker.were winners at this years regional Im not middle-aged and Im competition of the Sears Ontario not a slacker but hes a lot of fun to Drama Festival, held at Holy Trinity play, he said.High School last month.The Nelson team put on the As winners, both teams are playLysistrata. The regional com-moving on to the district competi-petition handed out a number of tion, which runs April 11-16, in student and production awards.Bradford. They are in the West The West district competition district, which includes teams from will take place at the Bradford Georgian Bay, Perth-Huron, District High School. Aquinas will Waterloo, Upper Grand-Wellington take to the stage on the second and Halton. Winners of the various night, Tuesday, April 12.district competitions will move This is the 65th annual year of onto the provincial final later this the province-wide student drama spring.festival and included more than Its incredible. I always had 300 Ontario schools. Each district faith in my cast, but the fact that had its own performance schedule we were able to pull this off with so and the finals will be played out in little is brilliant, said Caitlin SUBMITTED PHOTOMay at the University of Torontos Kennific, a Grade 12 Aquinas stu-Hart House Theatre.ON THE STAGE: A group of St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School students is heading to this year's Sears Ontario dent, who directed the teams play.Festival participants and teams Drama Festival district competition taking place next week in Bradford. Top performances at the regional competitions The four-member team put on compete for performance awards will move onto the provincial in Toronto, taking place in May. Pictured are the members of the Laund-O-Matteam (l-r) the production called Laund-O-and individuals can receive schol-Caitlin Kennific, Bami Kuteyi, Andrew Chown and Laura Wittman, with teacher Elizabeth Medeiros.Mat: At the End of the World, writ-arship to pursue an education in ten byquestions that we ask ourselves all Gruners children attended Aquinas local playwright Peter the fact that one of them is a the performing arts.Grunerdevout Catholic and the other is an the time and we feel this play is and the play won an Oakville arts . It is about two people at a The students perform self-pro-Laundromatagnostic, Kennific said.something that everyone could award., called a Laund-O-duced plays that range from 15-50 Mat, knowingIts a play thats a lot like life. relate to.The play has a two-person cast the end of the world minutes.Its both funny and sad and dra-The play was chosen for its of Brian (played by Andrew Chown) is coming that night.For more information, visit A matic all at once. It asks a lot of relatable theme. Furthermore, and Carmela (played by Bami lot of conflict revolves around www.searsdramafestival.com.31 Friday, April 8, 2011 OAKVILLE BEAVER www.insideHALTON.com