Plays by, Nathalie Boivert, Adam Pettle, Sean Reycraft, and Kate Rigg
New productions, by four of the most provocative young playwrights today, in a unique forum for experiencing the passion and creativity of young writers speaking to young adults.
The Buncha’ Young Artists. . . Festival was presented for high school students grade 11 and up and post secondary students with performances in the evening for general audiences from March 4 – 23, 2002.
Theatre Direct Canada, entering its 26th season of engaging young people through compelling, inventive and uncompromising theatre, was pleased to announce its exciting slate of work for the 2002/2003 season featuring the Buncha’ Young Artists. . . Festival.
In March of 2002, the Buncha’ Young Artists. . . Festival returned to Theatre Passe Muraille’s Backspace with new productions by four of the most provocative young playwrights today. This festival was a unique forum for experiencing the passion and creativity of young writers speaking to young adults.
Martian Summer
By Nathalie Boisvert (4×4)
Translated by Bobby Theodore
Directed by Jennifer Tarver
Two young girls living desperate, marginalized lives prepare for a rendezvous with an alien spacecraft. A journey from the dusk of childhood to the dawn of adulthood.
Misha
By Adam Pettle (Zadie’s Shoes)
Directed by Richard Greenblatt
Victim. Killer. Witness. Young Jew kills young Jew. The deconstruction of a violent school yard murder as told by the one who survived.
Roundabout
By Sean Reycraft (Pop Song, Chalmers Award Winner, 2000)
Directed by Michael Waller
A dark comedy exploring the issues of suicide, peer pressure, and conformity in a psychological game of musical chairs.
The Phoenix Rides a Skateboard
By Kate Rigg (M/Other/land)
Directed by Lynda Hill
A young Asian girl enters the world of skating and skateculture. Along the way she kick-flips Asian stereotypes as she flies, leaps and rides the rails of teenage life as the one who no one “gets”.
“English Canada’s leading purveyor of theatre for teens and young adults, has received frequent and deserved praise for its willingness to confront its audience with dramas that deal frankly with issues.” The Toronto Star
| Artistic Producer | Lynda Hill |
| Associate Producer | Sandra Hodnett |
| Company Manager | Winston Morgan |
| Set and Props Designer | Glen Charlese Landry |
| Lighting Designer | Michael Kruse |
| Sound Designer | Lyon Smith |
| Costume Designer | Joanne Dente |
| Production Manager | Greg Poulin |
| Technical Director | Brenden Peltier |
| Cast – Martian Summer | Soraya Peerbaye |
| Michelle Polak | |
| Erin Shields | |
| Cast – Misha | Jacob Barker |
| Miklos Perlus | |
| Daniel Stemer | |
| Cast – Roundabout | Jacob Barker |
| Marjorie Chan | |
| Michelle Polak | |
| Daniel Stemer | |
| Cast – Phoenix Rides a Skateboard | Marjorie Chan |