Rural Root makes good pledge to X-Ray Campaign

Rural Root Theatre Company pledged to the West Carleton X- Ray Vision Campaign all proceeds from the opening night performance of its most recent production: All for Your Delight.

The partnership between these two groups had the mutual objective of promoting community awareness.

In Rural Root’s case, a larger audience at opening night usually promotes larger audiences for the Thursday to Saturday shows, as many seats are filled via word-of-mouth advertising. The May 11 opening had one of the largest ever ticket sales and the Saturday show was a complete sell-out.

Many of the audience members on that opening night had learned of the show via advertising by X-Ray Vision Campaign. And now, pay-back to the campaign is in the form of a cheque for $1,000 from the Rural Root Theatre on May 11 audience and from the Constance and Buckham’s Bay Community Association.

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Meanwhile, preparations by Rural Root are underway for their next show which opens on Oct. 19.  A Little Piece of Heaven was written by Mathew Carlin and is being directed by Simon Wellman (who also directed the Rural Root production of Larceny and Old Lace).  Anyone interested in joining the cast or the crew is invited to the auditions on June 26 or 27 or July 6.

For more details about the show, the cast and the crew positions that are available, please the visit www.ruralroot.org.

As published in West Carleton Review of June 16, 2011