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The Essential Players is a Hamilton-based theatre company whose foundational assumption is that theatre can be a gift from God. The company exists to deliver theatre that is an opportunity to examine beliefs without ignoring the inherent value of accessible entertainment. In every aspect of their work, the members of The Essential Players strive to build reputations as polite, honest, and dedicated theatre professionals.
How we came to be: The Essential Players began working together as The Essential Shakespeare Players in early 2006. Five friends – Sam Frisk, Noah Hicks, Kevin Lobert, Amy Binder, and Sharon Hultink – teamed up to put on a production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) as a student production in the Black Box theatre at Redeemer University College. The success of the production led Sam and Amy to spend the following summer on Sam’s porch, musing about doing theatre for real, in the future, when they had saved up money from their regular jobs. By September, they’d called the other three members of the student production, as well as their friend Stephanie Elgersma, and together the six of them founded The Essential Players. The following spring, they teamed up with director Andrew Lakin (of Kitchener’s Lost and Found Theatre) and mounted a revival of The Complete Works… at the Staircase Theatre in downtown Hamilton. This season, The Essential Players are putting on a production of You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, and though some of the faces in the program have changed, the spirit of their young company is the same – to provide the Hamilton area with insightful theatre, one show at a time.
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