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 ...

GOOD GRIEF! A Q&A WITH THE CAST OF CHARLIE BROWN

GOOD GRIEF! A Q&A WITH THE CAST OF CHARLIE BROWN Almost everyone has memories from their childhood of Charlie Brown. We remember the whole family gathering around the TV to watch the latest Charlie Brown special. Or how much we laughed when Lucy yanked the football away for the umpteenth time. We asked five of the Peanuts gang to share ...

MTYP AGM CELEBRATED YEAR OF FIRSTS

MTYP AGM CELEBRATED YEAR OF FIRSTS Manitoba Theatre for Young People (MTYP) held our Annual General Meeting on November 7, celebrating a number of firsts during the 2021-2022 Mainstage season, welcoming back audiences and community partners to our venue, and achieving successes within our educational programs. MTYP is the second largest theatre company in Canada to produce and present work ...

PLAYING CHARLIE BROWN’S BEST FRIEND

Nelson Bettancourt (right) with Peter Fernandes in A Charlie Brown Double Bil (MTYP, 2017) PLAYING CHARLIE BROWN’S BEST FRIEND Kris Cahatol’s onstage professional debut has been three years coming. The young Filipino actor was to have made his professional debut in A Winter’s Tale for Shakespeare in the Ruins. But the show moved to digital because of the pandemic, and ...

WHY CRANKED MATTERS RIGHT NOW

WHY CRANKED MATTERS RIGHT NOW Rachel Aberle is the new Artistic Director of Vancouver’s Green Thumb Theatre Company. Green Thumb’s CRANKED: The ReMix is next on MTYP’s mainstage, as well as touring to Manitoba high schools. In this interview, Rachel talks about why this play has never been more relevant. This is Green Thumb’s first touring show, since the beginning of the ...

GETTING REAL WITH VELVETEEN RABBIT PLAYWRIGHT PURNI MORELL

GETTING REAL WITH VELVETEEN RABBIT PLAYWRIGHT PURNI MORELL Purni Morell, the creator of MTYP’s season opening play The Velveteen Rabbit, is a freelance theatre director, writer and translator. She was Artistic Director of Unicorn Theatre in the United Kingdom from 2011 to 2018 and now lives in Antwerp, Belgium. She is as excited as we are to open MTYP’s 2022/23 ...

GO WILD THIS SUMMER

GO WILD THIS SUMMER Do the young people in your life love nature and the arts? MTYP is pleased to once again partner with FortWhyte Alive to offer two unique camps this summer. “If you love theatre and nature, then this is the camp for you,” says Heather Russell-Smith, one of the camp coordinators. No previous experience in theatre is ...

SUMMER CAMPERS FIND THEIR VOICE AT MTYP

SUMMER CAMPERS FIND THEIR VOICE AT MTYP If you’ve called MTYP to purchase tickets to a show or enroll your child in a class anytime in the last six years, chances are you’ve spoken to Anika. Anika has contributed to MTYP in many different ways over the years. Not only do they support the School administration needs, but they have ...

THEATRE SCHOOL STUDENT REVIEWS ALICE IN WONDERLAND

THEATRE SCHOOL STUDENT REVIEWS ALICE IN WONDERLAND We invited one of our Theatre School students Sydney to review Bad Hats Theatre's Alice in Wonderland! Here's what she had to say about the time she spent falling down the rabbit hole: MTYP’s production of Bad Hats theatre’s Alice in Wonderland created a wonderful twist to the timeless classic, Alice in Wonderland. While keeping the same ...