Toronto Craft Alert

This sounds like pretty much the best thing ever. Projection, costumes, puppets.  Xylophone, wurlitzer, ukulele, cello, trumpet.   Sounds like a recipe for pure magic… act FAST if you want tickets!

A year and a half in the making, Everything Under the Moon is the most ambitious creation to date by celebrated Toronto visual and performance artist Shary Boyle and innovative Winnipeg songwriter and performer Christine Fellows. The pair have enchanted audiences with their daring, moving collaborations, presenting wildly imaginative performances from Dawson City, Yukon to Paris, France. With Everything Under the Moon, they’ve pulled out all the stops, creating a modern classic epic adventure tale that blurs the lines between musical theatre and visual spectacle.

Everything Under the Moon is the old-time shadow play re-imagined, a fantastical, theatrical performance work pairing hand-animated projected image with narrative song. Launching Harbourfront Centre’s 2012 World Stage Series, and presented in association with The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, it premieres at the Enwave Theatre in a five-show run from February 18th to 23rd, 2012. Everything Under the Moon arrives via Harbourfront’s Fresh Ground new works commissioning program, which champions the creation of exciting new interdisciplinary work geared toward children and adults alike.

Using multiple overhead projectors, costumes and puppets to bring Boyle’s artwork to life, and an original score by Fellows performed on xylophone, wurlitzer, ukulele, cello, trumpet, percussion and voice, Everything Under the Moon follows two small, winged creatures—a honey bee and a little brown bat—as as they set out together on an urgent quest to save themselves and their species. Touching on loss, environmental threat, adaptation, and the restorative powers of friendship and community, Everything Under the Moon champions the collaborative spirit as a means of survival.

Harbourfront Centre’s World Stage, in association with The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, presents Everything Under the Moon

created and performed by Shary Boyle and Christine Fellows, accompanied by musicians Alex McMaster and Ed Reifel

February 18-23, 2012 at Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay West

Suitable for family audiences. A spellbinding performance that will enchant theatre-goers aged 5 to adult.

Click here to buy tickets—$10 kids/$15 adults