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Plays for Young Audiences E-News
August 2009 
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In This Issue
Walking the Tightrope
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As you know, Plays for Young Audiences is always adding exciting, entertaining, and impactful new works to our selection of plays. This month we're featuring Walking the Tightrope by Mike Kenny, which recently won two Dora Awards!
 
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Walking the Tightrope

Walking the Tightrope
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"Every year right at the end of summer just before the leaves turn brown and fall from the trees, Esme comes to stay with her Nanna and Granddad..." But this year something is different; Nanna Queenie is gone. Though Grandad and Esme do the fun activities they usually do, things aren't the same without Nanna Queenie. Grandad can't bring himself to say that Nanna has died, so he explains that Nanna has joined the circus. "She looked like an ordinary woman, but inside beat the heart of a tightrope walker."
 
"The story is a clever blend of the familiar reality of family love and the fantasy that many kids have had of running off to join the circus." -Now Magazine

"Walking the Tightrope is ambitious children's theatre...The play walks its own tightrope between being lighthearted and energetic enough to keep the kids interested, and giving its subject matter the emotional weight it requires." -Eye Weekly
 
Theatre Direct's production of Walking the Tightrope recently won both Outstanding Production and Outstanding Performance in Theatre for Young Audiences at the 30th Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards in Canada.
 
Congratulations to Theatre Direct!
 
 
Above: Sharmila Dey as Esme and Wayne Robson as Grandad Stan in Theatre Direct's 2009 award-winning production of Walking the Tightrope. Photo by John Launer

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