The Sacred Heart High School Drama Club's production of Schoolyard Games brought home a slate of awards from the Provincial High School Drama Festival in Regina on the weekend, including a top acting award.
All three performers in the three-person play were honored. Bailey Lemcke, who played Binnie, was among the winners of a University of Regina Acting Award, the festival's top performance prize. Her costars Danielle Hansen ("Eleanor") and Angeline Stankewich ("Susan") both received Acting Awards of Merit.
Technical Theatre Awards of Merit went to Shelby Ruf for stage management and Lisa Milo for assistant stage management. Milo also received the production's Debbie Baker CHEER Award, a prize given to one student from each region who exhibits "cooperation, honest endeavor, enthusiasm, and respect."
Schoolyard Games won two of the festival's group awards: the Gateway Players Best Technical Crew Award and the runner-up award for Best Visual Production.
"We thought we had a shot at the top prize overall," said director Greg Digout. "It didn't work out that way, but we won a lot of awards, we gave a very strong performance, and I was very happy."
Schoolyard Games earned a spot at the provincial festival by winning first place in the Region IV Drama Festival in Yorkton at the end of March, where Lemcke and Ruf also won the top awards in their categories.
Swift Current Comprehensive High School won the provincial festival's Best Overall Production and Best Visual Production awards.
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