Snapshots Short Play Festival 2025

The Snapshots Short Play Festival is just around the corner!

Snapshots 2025 – Patchwork: The Crazy Quilt of our Lives

May 9 & 10, 2025

 At their most functional, patchwork quilts are multi-layered textiles, composed of many different elements assembled in traditional or abstract patterns. Patchwork quilts provide comfort and warmth, often from the humblest materials, pieced together to create order and substance from random scraps of fabric. Traditional quilt patterns capture historical or personal meaning, while contemporary quilts break out of the quilt block to tell their own rich stories through fabric and stitching.

Life can feel like the assembly of a “crazy” quilt – pieced together and crafted with no apparent pattern, the patches sourced from whatever comes to hand and with whatever stitches and decoration skill, time and resources allow. No two quilts are the same, no two lives are the same – we each have our own “bag of scraps” from which we stitch the fabric of our lives.

Whether literal or figurative, we invite playwrights to explore the crazy quilt of living through the metaphor of the patchwork quilt.

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We’re switching things up this year! There are two new festival events and we’re inviting everyone to join in.

Here’s the weekend’s line up:

Friday, May 9, 7 – 9 pm

Playwrights Talking

Our planning committee, selection panel and festival playwrights sit down for an open round table conversation on the art & craft of playwriting.

Open to the public, Pay What You May donation ($5 recommended).

Saturday, May 10, 10 am – 12 noon

Wordplay Workshop

Take part in an introductory workshop in creative playmaking, led by Artistic Director, Carey Nicholson and Judah Parris. The workshop is open to all, even if you’ve never written a play before, with a focus on fun and creativity.

Open to the public. Pay What You May donation ($5 recommended).

Saturday, May 10, 2 pm

Festival Readings

A public presentation of the festival playwright’s submissions, followed by a Q & A session and it’s your chance to vote on the Audience Choice Award.

Open to the public. Pay What You May donation ($10 recommended).

All festival activities take place at the Port Perry Anglican Church of the Ascension, 266 North St., Port Perry.

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Meet our Snapshots 2025 guest selection panel:

Iain Moggach, director & past Artistic Director, Theatre by the Bay

Peter Paylor, playwright & Artistic Director, Theatre in the Wings

Uju Umenyi, playwright & Theatre on the Ridge Board Member

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For more information, contact us at info@theatreontheridge.ca