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Written by: Sashoya Simpson
Genre: Adventure, Black Theatre, Fantasy, TYA
Length: 75 min.
Traversing present day and fantasy, Lulu takes us on a grand adventure into the mystical folk realm in search of the Birth Tree Fruit to save her ailing grandmother.
Written by: Lianna Makuch
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Feminist Theatre, Historical, Verbatim/Research-Based
Length: 120 min.
Hania’s Baba has a secret. A secret she’s bringing with her to her grave. Since moving into the Long-Term Care Centre, her grandmother has been restless. Agitated. Something from her past is haunting her. She urges Hania to return to their Ukrainian homeland to seek out a missing piece of...
Written by: Melissa Major, Emily Andrews
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, TYA
Length: 25 min.
In Wanda T. Grimsby Interactive Theatrical Detective Case: The Case of Stolen Time, Wanda T. Grimsby, Detective Extraordinaire is the city’s top adventurer slash detective and she’s back on the case in this interactive, theatrical case where someone or something has stolen time! In this exciting case the audience, in...
Written by: Melissa Major
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, TYA
Length: 45 min.
Wanda T. Grimsby: Detective Extraordinaire, the city’s top detective/adventurer (who works on a candy salary) has solved the most stupendous of crimes. Her boss, Big Bittions, has assigned her another mission: Wanda must track down two bizarre and endangered animals before they find each other and create disastrous results. Along...
Written by: Kate Hennig
Genre: Adaptation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Length: 55 min.
Oscar Wilde’s genius never blazed more brightly than in The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Remarkable Rocket, and The Selfish Giant. In these Wilde Tales, created to delight and inspire the child in each of us, he conjures a fantastical world in which statues, birds and even...
Written by: Christine Foster
Genre: Adaptation, Adventure, TYA
Length: 25 min.
The famous short story of the brave mongoose, Rikki Tikki Tavi by Rudyard Kipling, brought to life in this fun and vibrant adaptation by Christine Foster. Suitable to be performed by children and adults alike and a spectacle for all ages.
Written by: Christine Foster
Genre: Adaptation, Adventure, Classical
Length: 70 min.
Having angered Poseidon with his victory over Troy, The Odyssey follows Odysseus, who faces ten years of the god’s rage, including tempests, whirlpools, enchanted islands, the Cyclops, the Sirens, and the seductive wiles of Circe and Calypso as he struggles to return home to Ithaca and his wife and son....
Written by: Christine Foster
Genre: Adaptation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Myth/Legend/Folktale, TYA
Length: 60 min.
Ever wonder how the Elephant got his trunk? Or the Leopard got her spots? Just So!, based on the famous Rudyard Kipling stories, will have you howling with delight at “How Things Came to Be in the High and Far Off Times when the World was So New and All.”...
Written by: Gail Bowen
Genre: Adaptation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Suitable for Secondary School
Length: 80 min.
The Traveler, a man in late middle-age, uses a story to take him back to Neverland, the place where as a boy, he was happiest. In the Darling family, the Traveler finds the perfect vehicle to carry him back to boyhood. Wendy Darling is rebelling against the demands of growing...
Written by: Christine Foster
Genre: Adaptation, Adventure, Myth/Legend/Folktale, TYA
Length: 50 min.
“(In 1830’s Nova Scotia) Tamlyn, an adventurous young man, is captured by the Elfin Queen and forced to serve as her knight. Katherine must brave sprites and bogles, riddles and a changeling child in an effort to set him free. Her quest culminates in a swordfight which pits the innocent...