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Manitoba Theatre for Young People will open its 28th season in October with a highly interactive dance/theatre production that immerses the audience in the sensory world of a butterfly garden.
Artistic director Leslee Silverman says Butterflies, by the Italian company TPO, is in such demand that she has been waiting three years to present it here.
"The audience is inside a virtual reality (that) responds to them," Silverman says. The show, designed for ages three to 12, uses sensors that allow spectators' movements to trigger images and sounds.
"For instance, a water lily will appear close to an audience member who, if they move their fingers or feet, will create all the water lilies... The audience is usually astonished."
The overall theme of the 2010-11 MTYP season is invention and imagination, Silverman says.
The international 10-show lineup includes an irreverent retelling of the Greek myth Jason and the Argonauts by Scotland's Visible Fictions and an MTYP production based on the popular book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie that plays with scale, evoking an oversized world.
A Quebec/Mali co-production called Baobab blends West African and Quebecois music and storytelling.
Wired, a play aimed at eight- to 12-year-olds, follows a boy who thrives in the online world until he finds himself the target of cyber-bullying. Performed by British Columbia's Green Thumb Theatre, Wired has something to say to adults as well, Silverman says.
"It's about how all of us, with our BlackBerries and cellphones in our hands, are using the most modern tools of communication and we're communicating less."
The spring-break show for families will be Circus Incognitus, marking the third appearance at MTYP of Montreal clown Jamie Adkins.
The season-closing show will be The Man Who Planted Trees, a puppet production from Scotland in which the audience has sensory experiences, such as smelling lavender and feeling rain.
In a local theatrical first, MTYP is working in tandem with Manitoba Theatre Centre to bring in Jake's Gift, Julia Mackey's moving one-woman show about a Second World War veteran and a 10-year-old girl that was a huge hit at last year's Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival.
MTYP will present it for teens Oct. 26 to Nov. 2, then it will run for adults at the MTC Warehouse, Nov. 4 to 20.
The company will remount two of its successful past shows in conjunction with school tours throughout Manitoba. In January, it will present Liars, a powerful show for teens about parents' alcohol abuse and its effect on families. In February, for ages four to seven, it will remount Russell's World, in which a latch-key kid conjures up a make-believe world that helps him solve schoolyard problems.
A significant piece of news for MTYP, Silverman says, is that its own recent production of Rick: The Rick Hansen Story should reach a wide audience as part of the 2010-11 season at Edmonton's Citadel Theatre -- not a children's theatre, but the equivalent of MTC.
Subscriptions are on sale now at www.mtyp.ca
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition April 20, 2010 C3
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