JUNE 11
FAMILY STAGE PLAY READING | CIRCUS | MOVEMENT
PROJECT CLIMATE CHANGE
HALIFAX THEATRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Project Climate Change is a work-in-progress compilation of short pieces of theatre, circus and movement/dance by playwright Catherine Banks, Mi'kmaq filmmaker Eliza Knockwood, Halifax Circus, and a surprise new play written by a local highschool student! Join us in the development of this fun and far-reaching response to the climate change crisis!
PROJECT CLIMATE CHANGE, STAGES 2023
(Photo by James Arthur MacLean)
HALIFAX THEATRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Nova Scotia / Mi'kma'ki
​Halifax Theatre for Young People is HRM’s only full-time professional theatre for young audiences. Since 2009 we have aspired to create meaningful, engaging theatre experiences that stimulate the imaginations, hearts and minds of young people and their families. Touring theatres and schools throughout Nova Scotia, we encourage critical thinking through the development of educational materials that explore each production’s complex and challenging themes. As we work with playwrights to develop relevant and stimulating plays for young audiences we endeavour to ignite the unlimited capacity of youth for empathy and an understanding of diverse human experience.
CREDITS
Writers/ Creators: Catherine Banks and Eliza Knockwood
Halifax Circus - Mike Hirschbach and Youth Performance
ARTIST BIOS
CATHERINE BANKS
She/Her Plays by Catherine Banks have been performed across Canada and include: Miss N' Me; It Is Solved By Walking; Bone Cage; Three Storey, Ocean View; and Bitter Rose, which aired on Bravo! Canada. Bone Cage premiered in 2007, and went on to win the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama in 2008. It Is Solved By Walking won the Governor General’s Literary Award in 2012, was translated into Catalan by Tant per Tant, and was one of three Canadian plays to tour Catalonia in 2012. She is currently adapting Ernest Buckler’s novel The Mountain and the Valley for the stage, and her newest play Downed Hearts premiering in August 2023 at Ship's Company Theatre co-produced by Eastern Front Theatre and with Matchstick Theatre.
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