Heartland Region

2025 Heartland Region One Act Festival

UPDATE as of April 29th, 2025
The Boor by Anton Chekhov and directed by Robyn Jeffery won Outstanding Production and will be heading to Medicine Hat to compete in the Provincial One-Act Festival running May 30th and 31st.

Outstanding Performance (2) 
Cheryl Inward - Grief Sandwiches
Brock Beal - The Boor

Outstanding Direction
Robyn Jeffrey - The Boor

Outstanding Production
The Boor

Outstanding New Work by an Alberta Playwright
Grief Sandwiches - Barbara Pettie
A Trumped Up Fairy Tale - Courtney Boniface

Outstanding Technical Achievement
Hannah Sanson - Set Design
Randy Corney - Costumes - Honourable Mention

PROGRAM: https://www.adfa.ca/s/CAT-One-Acts-Programme.pdf

The Heartland Regional One-Act Festival will take place this year in the Studio Theatre at Central Alberta Theatre’s Memorial Centre on April 11 and 12, 2025. This annual theatre festival celebrating community theatre is presented by the Alberta Drama Festival Association and is a springboard for the Provincial One-Act Festival to come later this spring. 

The festival will host a Preview performance on Friday April 11th, followed by the official adjudicated show on Saturday April 12th, 2025. The winning production will represent the Heartland region at the upcoming Provincial One-Act Festival in Medicine Hat, May 30 and 31, 2025.

Three productions will be presented during Heartland Regional festival, including two new works* by local playwrights (indicated by an asterisk): 

• Central Alberta Theatre will be presenting “A Trumped-Up Fairy Tale,” by Courtney Boniface and directed by Myranda Corney. *

• Flying Blind Collective presents “The Boor,” by Anton Chekhov and directed by Robyn Jeffery.

• CoOl KaSa Productions presents “Grief Sandwiches” written by Barbara Pettie and directed by Emily Chase*

Preview and adjudicated performances will both be held in the Studio Theatre at Central Alberta Theatre, 4214 58 Street, Red Deer, AB starting at 7:30pm on April 11th and 12th. Tickets can be purchased online at https://www.showpass.com/o/central-alberta-theatre/, or by phone through the Central Alberta Theatre Box Office at 403-967-1769 between 9:30am – 2:00pm.

Prior Years

In May 2018, ADFA Heartland Region celebrated their second Regional Festival in many years. We know there are amazing and dedicated theater groups and local playwrights in the region that would love to showcase their talents at this regional festival. The 2019 festival will take place at the Ol'Moose Hall in Innisfail and is tentatively booked for both Friday April 26th and Saturday April 27th. The festival will again feature a professional adjudicator who will provide feedback to all entrants and will choose a winning one act. Groups who enter the ADFA Heartland Region One Act Play Festival should be aware, if chosen as the winning one act, will need to make themselves available to participate in the provincial festival that will be held in High River Alberta May 3rd and May 4th 2019. Original works are encouraged to be entered and performed.

Please spread the word and encourage all interested actors, directors, playwrights in the region to contact the ADFA Heartland Regional Representative Christine Chalaturnyk. Applications for our festival are open and welcomed! Please see the ADFA webpage for forms, rules and regulations etc.