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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Thursday, October 15, 2015 | 46 Perfect Wedding kicks off Oakville Drama Series Annual production series put on by The Oakville Players and West End Studio Theatre by John Bkila Oakville Beaver Staff Artscene "Connected to your Community" The Oakville Drama Series (ODS) returns later this month to entertain audiences with a mix of comedy, intrigue and a little bit of Shakespeare. For the past 36 years, ODS has been producing a home-grown subscription season full of comedy, farce, drama, thriller, mystery and musical with shows put on by The Oakville Players and West End Studio Theatre. The two local community theatre groups work together to produce five different plays for the annual series. "Producing the plays for the Drama Series involves all sorts of people working toward a common goal," stated a media release. "Although the actors are the most visible participants, equally important are the producer, director, set designer, lighting designer, sound technician, stage manager as well as the folks doing costumes, props, set construction and painting, and publicity." Five-play season Kicking off this season's five-play series is West End's production of Perfect Wedding, written by Robin Hawdon and directed by Yo Mustafa. The romantic comedy is about a bridegroom who wakes up on his wedding morning to find a strange woman in bed beside him. "By the time the bride, her parents and the hotel staff get into the act, the chaos reaches nuclear proportions," according to From left, Oakville cast members of West End Studio Theatre's production of Perfect Wedding: Jennifer Farrugia, Dina Dametto, Danny Deakin, Mauricio Canjura, Franny McCabe-Bennett, and Meghan Chalmers. The romantic comedy is about a bridegroom, Bill (played by Canjura), who wakes up on his wedding morning to find a strange woman, Judy (Chalmers) in bed beside him with his bride-to-be Rachel (Farrugia) set to arrive at any moment. The production kicks off the Oakville Drama Series on Oct. 21. | photo by Alex Ragozzino, courtesy West End Studio Theatre the release. The award-winning play was originally presented in 2006, while the original show won the Audience Choice Award for Best Production. Most of the original cast has returned for the staging of this year's production, which features Oakville residents Meghan Chalmers, Danny Deakin, Jennifer Farrugia and Franny McCabe-Bennett, as well as Mauricio Canjura and Dina Dametto. In the original production, McCabe-Ben- nett won Best Performance by a Featured Actress and Deakin was nominated Best Performance by a Featured Actor. Perfect Wedding will be staged Oct. 21-24 at 8 p.m., with a 2 p.m. matinee on Oct. 25. see Oakville on p.47 in support of World Class Stage Performances on the Big Screen een 2 for 1 admission to any Signature Series performance Valid for Guillaume Tell or The Comedy of Errors expiry: october 31, 2015 171 Speers Road (at Kerr) Oakville 905-338-6397 · www.film.ca facebook.com/filmca @filmcacinemas Guillaume tell october 11/14 the comedy of errors october 25/28