The
Great Canadian Theatre Company
910 Gladstone Ave. Ottawa, Ontario
Telephone: 613-236-5192
GCTC celebrates
its 32nd Season in 2006-2007 and they've got great cause to
celebrate their achievements. They have developed from five
people who joined together at Carleton University
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with
little more than an idea, to become a vibrant regional
theatre, a centre for local, professional, English-language
theatre. Ottawa-Carleton is rich in arts organizations.
Yet none is quite like the Great Canadian Theatre Company.
GCTC represents a viewpoint and approach to theatre
that no other arts organization in this community is
exploring.
GCTC
is committed to the production of new Canadian work
through their play development program. Each
season
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they commission
emerging and established playwrights and workshop new plays.
GCTC is
a large employer of theatre artists from artistic and technical
to administrative in the Ottawa area. Remaining committed
to the production of challenging Canadian theatre, they have
become a base of support for emerging and smaller theatre
organizations. GCTC's facility also supports other cultural
activities such as Acoustic Waves, their music series.
GCTC's
audience is made up predominately of well-educated professionals
of middle to upper income, which range in age from 25 to 65
years. Last season over 34,000 people attended the shows.
In describing what they like best about GCTC, audience members
often refer to the quality and variety of plays presented,
the intimacy of the theatre space and the Canadian content.
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