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Company will be playing
themselves in Teenage Home
Invasions, and Picherack insists that
no two shows will be alike. The
Young Company will employ
extreme measures to ensure it.
At the halfway point of the show,
there will be a large seat shuffle,
where members of the audience will
physically get up and move to
another seat. There will also be a fair
amount of audience participation
and interaction between the
company on stage and the audience
in the seats.
Members of the Young Company
have also been working with
dramaturge Gil Garratt to write and
perform a “rant” each. Each member
will have a rant, a part of the show
where the stage will be just theirs to
complain about something that rubs
them the wrong way. Each member
will perform their rant at least once,
but not everyone will perform every
night, and the same slate of
monologues will not be performed
every night, furthering the “no two
shows are alike” feeling of Teenage
Home Invasions.
While not all of the members have
completed their work on their rants
yet, some of the subjects that will be
explored will be family members,
bullying, a lack of respect for youth,
stereotyping, homophobia,
schoolyard popularity, pressure to
succeed, friendship and betrayal.
As the Young Company has often
done, they will tackle many topics
and attempt a perfect storm of
drama, presenting a plethora of
topics to the audience in hopes of
making them think, said teBrinke.
However, just thinking isn’t
enough, he said. The Young
Company tailored its process to
break down walls of fear, purposely
appearing to be intimidating and
intrusive to address the community’s
attitude towards its youth.
Becca Beardsley of Wingham said
that she feels like the victim of an
assumption that area youth are all
“dangerous and on drugs” which
was just one of the stereotypes the
company has been striving to
dispel.
The interview process is now over,
their travels through the village with
a shopping cart named Betsy have
concluded.
They are in the Phillips Studio
now, compiling and editing their
findings and putting together, what
they hope will be a very innovative
and thought-provoking exercise in
community theatre.
Teenage Home Invasions will run
from Sept. 9 to 13 at 7 p.m. nightly
at the Phillips Studio at 209 Dinsley
St. Tickets are available at the Blyth
Festival box office or by calling 1-
877-862-5984.
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Young Company employing extreme measures
Solid gold
Members of the Wawanosh life skills club won the region’s Go for the Gold contest. From left:
Sophie Jefferson, Kristina Drennan, Maisy Jefferson and Ellen Jefferson. (Photo submitted)
The Wawanosh Golden Girls,representing Huron County,emerged victorious at the annualRegion 5 4-H Go for the Gold
competition.
The competition was held on Aug.
20 in Londesborough with teams
from Bruce, Huron and Perth
Counties. The Huron County team
consisted of Sophie Jefferson,
Kristina Drennan, Ellen Jefferson
and Maisy Jefferson and coach
Mary Ellen Foran. All are members
of the Wawanosh Life Skills Club.
The 4-H Go for the Gold
competition tests members’
knowledge and skills in over 60
different 4-H project areas,
including livestock, crops,
machinery, life skills, food and
nutrition, plus general knowledge of4-H, the local community andcurrent events.The regional winners will now
advance to the provincial Go for the
Gold competition to be held Nov. 8
at the Royal Agricultural Winter
Fair in Toronto.
4-H Ontario is dedicated to the
personal development of youth
while providing a positive impact on
volunteers and communities in
Ontario. The Huron County
committee, headed by Beth Kresky,
hosted the event and would like to
thank all the volunteers and the
Ontario Mutual Insurance
Association for their support of Go
for the Gold at all levels of
competition.
Wawanosh 4-HClub wins gold
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