Short film highlights the history of Lethbridge community theatre – Lethbridge [Video]

One of Canada’s oldest running theatre groups is being featured in a short film that premiered in southern Alberta this week.

It all started in 1923, when Ernest Sterndale Bennett entered a church in Lethbridge.

“The history of the club that started in this building right behind us 101 years ago at this point,” said Allen Gibson, the producer behind Lifers: A Century of Addiction to Theatre. “Two people showed up at the first meeting — Sterndale Bennett and one other guy. But, within a few years, they were selling out the 1,000-seat theatre that we had here in Lethbridge, and how many people know that we had a 1,000-seat theatre here in Lethbridge called the Majestic?”

The club, Playgoers of Lethbridge, remains one of the oldest operating amateur theatre groups in Canada. So, to celebrate a century of history, Gibson created a new short film to inspire the next 100 years.

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