Provincial Festival
2024 PROVINCIAL FESTIVAL
ADFA’s 2024 Provincial Festival will be held at
KMSC Law Performing Arts Theatre
300 Arbour Hills BLVD. Grande Prairie
May 18 & 19, 2024
2023 FESTIVAL DETAILS
Thank you to the Playgoers of Lethbridge for hosting our 48th Annual One Act Play Festival.
Congratulations to all the casts and crews of this year’s Provincial One Act Play Festival!
Outstanding Production - Wrestling With Andy Kaufman (Calgary Region)
Outstanding Direction - Rick Kiebiech for Sister and Brother Build IKEA (Edmonton Region)
Outstanding Performance - Jocelyn Steinborn for Anne in Alternative Accommodation (Chinook Region)
Outstanding Perfomance - Richard Grafton for The Writer in Madly Off in All Directions (Cypress Region)
Outstanding New Work - Wrestling With Andy Kaufman (Calgary Region)
Outstanding Technical Merit - Captain Everything (Foothills Region)
Stay tuned for where provincials will be hosted in 2024!
2023 Provincial One Act Play Festival
Join us on May 26th and 27th at the Yates Memorial Theatre in Lethbridge for the 2023 ADFA Provincial One Act Play Festival! The regional Outstanding Productions from around Alberta will perform their plays in a celebration of community theatre, hosted by Playgoers of Lethbridge.
May 26 at 7:30PM
May 27th at 2PM and 7:30PM
Within each of the ADFA's ten regions, various functions, workshops and activities are organized or developed. Each region has a committee that is autonomous and operates to encourage and develop the potential within their region. Each year the Directors from these regions organize a festival and from these festivals, one play is chosen by an adjudicator to represent each region at the Provincial One Act Festival.
The Provincial Festival is meant to be a celebration of drama. It provides an occasion for the coming together of all community drama groups in a festival situation within Alberta. We have followed the practice of having one or two adjudicators at a festival. They publicly comment upon the performances and are available for a more detailed private discussion with the individuals involved in the production.
The Provincial Festival alternates between regions, trying to maintain a balance between the southern and northern regions.
In 2020, both Regional Festivals and the Provincial Festival were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Previous Provincial Festivals Locations
1976 - Medicine Hat
1977 - Grande Prairie
1978 - Lethbridge
1979 - Red Deer
1980 - Medicine Hat
1981 - Grande Prairie
1982 - Red Deer
1983 - Medicine Hat
1984 - Fort McMurray
1985 - Lethbridge
1986 - Grande Prairie
1987 - Red Deer
1988 - Calgary
1989 - Whitecourt
1990 - Lethbridge
1991 - Spruce Grove
1992 - Medicine Hat
1993 - Whitecourt
1994 - High River
1995 - Westlock
1996 - Medicine Hat
1997 - Whitecourt
1998 - High River
1999 - Calgary
2000 - Edmonton
2001 - Medicine Hat
2002 - Grande Prairie
2003 - High River
2004 - Hinton
2005 - Lethbridge
2006 - Edmonton
2007 - High River
2008 - Fort McMurray
2009 - Medicine Hat
2010 - Whitecourt
2011 - Lethbridge
2012 - Camrose
2013 - High River
2014 - Grande Prairie
2015 - Red Deer
2016 - Grande Prairie
2017 - Medicine Hat
2018 - Fort McMurray
2019 - High River
2020 - Cancelled
2021 - Cancelled
2022 - Camrose
2023 - Lethbridge