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"...our failure [is] to understand, to recognize, to celebrate our non-humanity, our animality... if we could overcome this failure and come to terms with our animalilty, there may be some hope.”
- Farley Mowat
Clay & Paper Theatre’s 2014 summer show is an epic papier-mâché tale of the search for the way home. Animal Nature is filled with a decidedly Canadian mélange of creature characters and giant puppets on a fateful journey to the very edges of the earth itself. Owl, Caribou, Possum, Grizzly, Orca and Humanimal have been displaced from their homes and must address the deceptively simple question “How did we get pushed here?” Provocative puppetry at its best, Animal Nature is brimming with original design, music, dance, and signature Clay & Paper Theatre satire and wit gone awry. With its cast of puppet tricksters and merrymakers, Animal Nature rallies audiences to embrace their inner animals, to revel in the beauty of the earth and to find the way home together.
Conceived and directed by Clay & Paper Theatre Founder and Artistic Director David Anderson, and written by David Anderson, Tamara Romanchuk, Anna Sapershteyn, and Maria Wodzinska, Animal Nature features Music Direction by Chris Wilson, Designs by Craig Morrison and Liudmila Lipovskaya, and a stellar cast of emerging professionals: Sara Ahmadieh, Gavin Bowerman, Darla Contois, Dana Prieto, Ruthie Pytka-Jones, Anna Sapershteyn and Maria Wodzinska.
Now in its 20th season and founded in 1994 by David Anderson (longtime theatre activist, producer of new Canadian work, and defender of public space), Clay & Paper Theatre creates, develops, produces and performs multi-disciplinary, community-driven theatrical works using narrative theatre, music and large-scale puppetry in public space. A little theatre company asking big questions with humour and irreverence, Clay & Paper Theatre is not funny and is never serious.
More information is available at www.clayandpapertheatre.org
Show Information for Animal Nature:
VENUE: Dufferin Grove Park
(875 Dufferin St., South of Bloor St. W., across from Dufferin Mall)
PERFORMANCES: July 26th to August 17th, 2014 Wednesday through Sunday @ 7:30pm
ADMISSION: Pay-What-You-Can, $10 suggested. No reservations necessary.
2014-07-24
Toronto: Clay & Paper Theatre presents "Animal Nature" July 16-August 17