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Coming right up!Hansel & Gretel: The Fast Food VersionHansel and Gretel's dysfunctional parents can't keep up with their bills and the sub-prime mortgage payments. The children are sent out into the deep, dark, super-sized world where a Happy-Ever-After-Meal is not at all what it seems. Shadowland is performing this Punch and Judy-style puppet version of the Grimm tale at the following events:
 Hansel and Gretel: A Case Study A radical new take on an old tale. The acclaimed Shadowland Theatre returned to the Toronto Islands this past August with an outdoor, all-ages, processional cabaret performance of Hansel and Gretel – A Case Study, a darkly humorous take on the legendary coming-of- age German fairy tale from the Grimm Brothers. Hansel and Gretel – A Case Study wove through Ward's Island August 9 to August 14, taking audiences into the deep, dark forests of their imagination. Combining live music from Brecht and Weill's The Threepenny Opera, Shadowland's theatre of spectacle, song and site-specific performance revealed the deeper meaning in the Hansel and Gretel rite of passage tale – with the help of none other than Sigmund Freud for a triple deutsch black forest treat! Hansel and Gretel is a beloved children's story (albeit filled with some dodgy themes!). Hansel and Gretel – A Case Study
is a true family show: youngsters fly the coop, are exiled into the deep, dark woods and forced to grow up; adults struggle for
survival, and the voracious forces of temptation and excess vie with those of hunger and desperation. more Hansel and Gretel: A Case Study in the press! Live With Culture link Two brand new film projects: I Stop! Think Again! – is a film created by Shadowland teens to inspire other young people to get on their bikes. Couch Potato stumbles across the Biker Bob Show in a life-changing, coming-of-health tale. Animations, live action, thrills and spills. 20 min. The creators of Stop! Think Again! will come to your school or community group, show the film and open the discussion on cycling in Toronto for youth. Available for booking from May 2011 Both films playing at the Toronto Island Film Festival – Saturday, April 30 Hiring summer studentsShadowland will be hiring for our summer productions. Work in outdoor spectacle, mask, puppetry and be part of an amazing creative team. Interested young people who will be returning to full-time school should contact Anne at shadow@shadowlandtheatre.ca. Ward’s Island Fire Parade
Outdoor Theatre Training Shadowland’s current focus is training other communities in outdoor theatre so they can dramatize their own stories. We just returned from highly successful workshops and outreach in Minden and Haliburton and Norfolk County working with elementary and high schools and adult artists and community participants.
One day training intensiveIn the last week of July we are running a one-day intensive in outdoor theatre creation culminating in the annual Ward’s Island Fire Parade. Part of a training series by Raucous Caucus. Raucous Caucus is an umbrella group of colleagues in pageantry, puppetry and community-engaged theatre – Shadowland, Jumblies, Puppetmongers and Clay & Paper Theatres. Hansel & Gretel: the Fast Food VersionPunch and Judy-style show, Hansel & Gretel: the Fast Food Version has toured the city and is available for booking. This 20 minute show is an irreverent new take on an old tale. In true Toronto style the six community members who created and perform it represent five nationalities and an age range of 16 to 77!
Intern – Arber MakriWe have a wonderful intern for a year thanks to a Metcalf Foundation grant. Arber is a young Albanian-Canadian and multi-talented artist who is already making his mark and taking on everything we throw at him.
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sland Mummers Play – a staged video of Shadowland youth theatre’s battle between winter and spring with a local, contemporary twist! The People and the Knight of Hope and Light, spurred on by the ‘Obby ‘Oss, overcome the forces of greed and selfishness. 22 min.
The annual fire parade takes place on July 29. Fire performance, lanterns, music and magic.
