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Youngsters’s theatre takes centre stage as Arts Commons hosts the multi-media touring present, Leonardo! A Great Present A few Horrible Monster, and Workshop Theatre’s Child’s Cushion Cabaret sequence presents Ann Hodgson’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
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As tens of millions of youngsters simply studying to learn have found, Leonardo is a horrible monster. Poor Leonardo simply can’t appear to scare anybody, not even Sam, essentially the most scaredy-cat child on this planet. Leonardo and Sam’s adventures are coming to the Arts Commons Engineered Air Theatre for 4 exhibits on Could 26-28.
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Leonardo, the Horrible Monster and its sequel Sam, the Most Scaredy-Cat Child within the World are simply two of the tons of of youngsters’s books Mo Willems has written, which incorporates his Pigeon sequence, Kuffle Bunny sequence and his prolific Elephant & Piggie sequence.
Leonardo and Sam are amongst Willems most beloved characters and their mixed tales have been woven right into a 55-minute, live-action, extremely interactive, multi-media present known as Leonardo! A Great Present A few Horrible Monster.
Alex Bonyun, communications supervisor for Arts Commons, stresses these exhibits from the Emmy Award-winning firm Guide Cinema are like a transferring image e book on stage and the enjoyable doesn’t simply occur within the Engineered Air Theatre.
“Youngsters can go to our Monster Lab within the Arts Commons Studying Middle that’s situated slightly below the steps in the principle courtroom of Arts Widespread. Right here the youngsters get to create their very own puppet monster from a number of heads, our bodies, legs and arms. They will then take them to the present and maintain them up at occasions in the course of the efficiency. This isn’t the form of present the place kids simply sit again and watch. It’s extremely participatory,” says Bonyun.
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To inform this story of Leonardo and Sam, the actors, musicians and technicians from Guide Cinema make Willems’ characters soar off the web page and onto the stage and onto a big display screen. The youngsters get to see how the magic is created.
Julia Miller, the co-artistic director of Guide Cinema and the director of Leonardo!, says she “desires the youngsters to see magic being made with easy provides they’ve at residence, and I hope that they go away the present feeling they’ll do that, too.”
Bonyun hopes the present will encourage a couple of of the youngsters to turn into puppeteers, writers, actors or animators. To this finish, kids and their dad and mom are invited to remain after every efficiency for an illustration of the know-how used within the present and to ask questions of the performers and technicians.
Tickets to Leonardo! A Great Present A few Horrible Monster can be found on-line at artscommons.ca/leonardo or by cellphone at 403-294-9494.
WORKSHOP THEATRE IS CONJURING UP LAUGHS AND THRILLS
In Ann Hodgson’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, a cat, a dove and a sorcerer’s e book of spells is a recipe for some high-spirited hijinks.
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Younger Alex wants a job to assist help himself and his poor mom so he units out to search out somebody to rent him. His journey takes him to an odd citadel on the outskirts of city inhabited by a sorcerer, his mischievous speaking cat and a clever dove. To Alex’s delight, the sorcerer does need assistance cleansing up the citadel and altering the kitty litter. Alex has all the time dreamed of being a magician so with the assistance of the dove and the cat, he manages to unlock the sorcerer’s e book of spells, which he makes use of to assist treatment the sorcerer of his insomnia and grumpy nature however not with out quite a lot of tomfoolery.
Hodgson wrote the script and music for The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and co-directs with Jacqueline Strilchuk.
The solid consists of Anzel Collantes as Alex, Joe Iampen because the sorcerer, Sarah Ohlhauser because the dove, Apollo Gorrie because the cat and Luke Baumann because the storyteller with Connor Iampen, Sylas Iampen and Maddie Iampen in a number of roles.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is enjoying for 3 weekends in three completely different areas. The Could 27 and 28 performances shall be held at Workshop Theatre’s rehearsal house at Bay H, 1003 fifty fifth Ave N.E. On June 3 and 4, the present shall be introduced at Rosemont Group Affiliation at 2807 tenth Road N.W. and the ultimate two performances on June 10 and 11 shall be held on the Haysboro Group Affiliation, 1204 89th Ave. S.W.
All Saturday performances are at 11:30 a.m. whereas the Sunday performances are at 2:30 p.m. and advance tickets should be bought by way of the person venues. Go to workshoptheatre.ca/sorcerersapprentice and you may be directed to every location’s web site.
Children are reminded to carry their favorite cushion to sit down on however chairs shall be offered for adults.
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