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2009 - 2010 Season
Leslee Silverman
Artistic Director
Message from Leslee Silverman, Artistic Director
Boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen: Do not adjust your screen. You are perfectly safe in the theatre with the world's most riotous clowns, Aga-Boom. They have kindly agreed to open our 10th Anniversary season at The Forks with their brand of unfettered hilarity, elegance and the always inviting "DO NOT TOUCH" button.
We promise that neither the fun nor the intrigue will stop all season long. There will be giant puppets from Québec floating in the rafters as well as the tender Goodnight Moon from Nova Scotia's Mermaid Theatre. The spectacular Forbidden Phoenix fuses martial arts and Peking Opera while teens get reated to An Illustrated History of the Anishnabe, featuring Ian Ross (a.k.a. Joe from Winnipeg).
Art has no borders and neither will MTYP. In January, the theatre will rock when Black Violin's enlightened energy kicks off the new year. The poignant tale of a child from India as she experiences the first days in her new Canadian home is followed by our world premiere of RICK: The Rick Hansen Story. MTYP's production will take the stage at the 2010 Paralympics in Vancouver, but Winnipegers get to see this remarkable story first.
Last year in the midst of a performance, a young man stood up and walked up and down beside the stage, looking for the "edge of the screen." He hadn't been to the theatre before and just assumed that what he was seeing was a high-tech "edgeless" screen.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, let there be no doubts... not for a minute, not for a second...that this season you will be enjoying the most vivid, vibrant and compelling artists for young audiences in all the world. Come celebrate our 27th season of LIVE, "edgeless" theatre, both on the road as we visit 50,000 Manitobans, and at our own theatre right here at The Forks in Winnipeg.
It's going to be awesome!
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