SPOTLIGHT ON CANADIAN YOUTH THEATER TROUPE

Written by Joan MacCloud, one of Canada’s most-respected authors, the play is about a teen coming to terms with peer violence, through both her horror at the widely-covered murder of a young girl by a group of her peers and the subsequent realization that she has been part of a bullying clique not all that different from the one she’s been reading about in the newspapers. The highly touted performance of Jenny Young as Braidie, the teenager who travels this path of self awareness, has garnered superlatives wherever she has appeared.

The Shape of a Girl opened at the Alberta (Canada) Theatre Projects 2001 playRites Festival and went on to tour 17 weeks throughout Canada and the US. The following year, a nine-city Canadian tour culminated in a 6-week run in Toronto, which received a rare five stars from the Toronto Star. In 2003 a second nine-city Canada/US tour culminated in a performance at the International Showcase for Performing Arts for Young People in Quebec.

The presentation of the Green Thumb Theatre for Young People marks Phantom Project’s first outing as presenter of another company. The La Mirada-based company has been presenting their own educational productions at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and at schools throughout southern California since 1997. Artistic Director Steve Cisneros is enthusiastic about the organization’s expansion into bringing the work of other outstanding educational theatre companies to the southland.

Schools wishing to book tickets to the morning performance and persons wishing to purchase tickets to the evening performance of The Shape of a Girl can call Phantom Projects at 562-902-0119 for price and availability information. The La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts is located at 14900 La Mirada Blvd. in La Mirada. For further information, call the Phantom Projects office at the number above or go to www.PhantomProjects.com or www.LaMiradaTheatre.com.

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