Three looks of the Frog in A Year With Frog and Toad

A Year With Frog and Toad designer inspired by nature

Some of Jackie Chau's inventive costumes from A Year With Frog and Toad A Year With Frog and Toad designer inspired by nature Set and costume designer Jackie Chau wants to inspire kids to have a relationship with nature. She imagines the audiences lying on their stomachs surrounded by tall grass on a hot summer day, when watching A Year ...

WELCOME BACK NATALIE!

WELCOME BACK NATALIE! Natalie Viebrock has a love affair with MTYP! From being a theatre school student, to becoming a teaching assistant for theatre school classes to starring in MTCO's Peter and the Starcatcher, Natalie has literally done it all at MTYP. Now, for her next act, she is back from her third year at Queen's University as our Associate ...

A PLAY FROM THE SALT BEDS OF HAWAI’I

A PLAY FROM THE SALT BEDS OF HAWAI’I MTYP's Mainstage season finale is The Pa'akai We Bring from April 26-May 5. Produced by Honolulu Theatre for Youth (Honolulu, Hawaii), this original production introduces young audiences to the Native Hawaiian relationship to pa’akai (salt). Pa’akai is food, medicine, a sacrament, and a treasured gift. The play follows multiple generations of salt ...
Tetris March 15-24

TETRIS CREATOR ON HOW WE FIT TOGETHER

Arch8’s Tetris TETRIS CREATOR ON HOW WE FIT TOGETHER The next show on the MTYP Mainstage is a physical theatre show inspired by the video game Tetris. Tetris leaps onto the Mainstage from March 15-24. In Tetris, four performers fit, merge, stack, and combine in various feats. The show is about fitting into a group, but also staying true to ...

THE PROBLEM WITH PINK

THE PROBLEM WITH PINK The next show on the MTYP Mainstage is a dynamic dance piece about friendship, identity, and self-affirmation. The Problem with Pink leaps onto the Mainstage from February 16-24. Playing happily on their private pink carpet, each day is full of fun for friends Alix, Sasha, Lou and Noa. From afar, the outside world seeps into their ...

THE POWER OF IMAGINATION IN POLI POP

THE POWER OF IMAGINATION IN POLI POP Doodle POP was the first international show on the MTYP stage in our 2021/22 season. We are thrilled to invite BRUSH Theatre from South Korea back to Winnipeg to delight Manitoban audiences. Sam from BRUSH Theatre chatted with us about their new show, Poli POP, and how they unlocks kids' creative potential through ...

THROUGH THE WARDROBE

THROUGH THE WARDROBE This December, MTYP is inviting audiences to head through the wardrobe, with its imaginative and creative adaptation of Narnia as written by Bad Hats Theatre. Part of the imagination that audiences will get to enjoy is in the world that is built by the creative team, whether it’s the props, the sets, or the costumes. In a ...

NARNIA FINDS THE MAGIC IN EVERYDAY THINGS

NARNIA FINDS THE MAGIC IN EVERYDAY THINGS Matt Pilipiak is a prairie-born, Toronto-based actor, dramaturg and producer.  He is also the Managing & Artistic Producer of Bad Hats Theatre.  Fiona Sauder is an Ottawa-born, Toronto-based performer and director, as well as the Artistic Director of Bad Hats Theatre.  They are currently in Winnipeg, as the Associate Director and Director on ...

GETTING LOST IN THE WOODS

GETTING LOST IN THE WOODS Christine Ting-Huan Urquhart is the set and props designer for Snow White. From Toronto, Christine has designed for Young People's Theatre, Tarragon, Saga Collectif. This is her first time working for MTYP. Q The stage is set up as a thrust for Snow White (which means the audience is on three sides). I love the intimacy ...