Laughter once again filled the Rosetown Community Theatre this past weekend. The Community Theatre Group was finally able to perform a spring play for the first time in a long time. The title of the production was Nana’s Naughty Knickers. 

Max Linklater, Director with the Rosetown Community Theatre also holds multiple positions and describes how this past weekend's play went.  

“We hadn't had a spring play since just the week prior to the world shutting down in 2020. So, we were itching to get back at it and we finally had a chance to perform again on stage and we're quite happy to do it and it was clear that the community wanted it because both nights we ended up being oversold. We had seating at the tables for 96 each night and the first night I think we had around 120 people show up and second night around 110.” 

Plays in general have been halted the past 3 years because of gathering restrictions and various reasons, but the group was able to put on a show in the fall of 2022 says Linklater. 

“We had our we had our fall play that we did at the Harvest Festival just this last fall, but other than that, that's all we had done in the last three years.” 

Nana’s Naughty Knickers brought a lot of laughter to the Theatre both nights and Linklater provides details about the production. 

“It was a comedy based around a grandmother having her granddaughter move in for the summer into her apartment and the granddaughter finds out that her grandmother had been keeping a secret for six years and had been building a lingerie line and selling out of her apartment. The granddaughter finds out about it, which leads to the local police officer finding out about it, which leads to the landlord, who has been trying to evict her since he took over, also finding out about it and all the tails and troubles that will come along with all of them knowing the secret and how they portray it and try to stay in business.” 

Money raised from both sold-out shows is still being totaled. Linklater says the funds are distributed in a number of ways. 

“The majority of it goes back into the theater, but we do try to have at least one, if not two, scholarships or more every year. We try to find young adults that have participated in the community theater in the past, whether it be in our fall festival plays or our spring plays that we've put on and try to help them with their post-secondary school. We also one of our big projects we're doing right now is we've teamed up with some other groups around town to remember the late Bob White. We're building a bench that will commemorate what he's done for the theater group, the youth centre, the museum and a couple other groups.” 

An annual general meeting is taking place April 13th to discuss plans for the fall Harvest Festival and the possibility of a dinner theatre in the spring of 2024.