Monster Theatre is committed to presenting stories from mythology and history in exciting new packages for today's audiences.

"It's history... without the boring stuff!  A Gem of a show!" 5 Stars, Ottawa Citizen

This February, just in time for the 2010 Olympics, Monster Theatre will bring back its longest running and most celebrated creation of all time, THE CANADA SHOW for a special one-week run as part of Granville Island's Winterruption Festival.

In an action-packed sixty minutes, Monster Theatre takes you on a hysterically historical joy ride through 50,000 years of Canada. Through physical comedy, puppetry, and an original live score, THE CANADA SHOW reveals parts of our history few knew existed!

Told from the point of view of three bickering "historians" - one English, one French and one just trying to keep the whole thing together! THE CANADA SHOW includes hits like the "who's on first" team of Cabot and Costello, Jacques Cartier Puppets, Leonard Cohen's 'Nobody Knows', 'A Conscription Carol' starring William Lyon MacKenzie King, the feminist song 'the Chicks of Canada', the FLQ crisis as a Hockey Game, a giant dancing beaver, and much, much more.

"It's funny, educational, well-acted, well-written, smart and silly all at the same time.  As if Will Ferrell was your Social Studies teacher." 5 Stars, Edmonton Sun

February 22-27 (showtimes)
Waterfront Theatre
1218 Cartwright street
Granville Island, Vancouver, BC

Get your tickets early!

 

Presented by Sunshine Theatre
Kelowna, BC   January 13-16, 2010
(Tickets)

"Wildly funny, wonderfully crafted and brilliantly acted - Flawless!" -CBC
"The script is a lesson in crowd-pleasing wit!" -SEE Magazine
"Composed of equal parts absolute fact and utter nonsense, The Shakespeare Show is a laugh-filled treat for scholar and squire alike." -Vancouver Sun

How did an illiterate son of a Glover become the greatest playwright in the World?  He got someone else to write the plays!  Based on the biggest theatrical debate of all time, The Shakespeare Show follows Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford as he meets the ghost of Christopher Marlowe, the three Witches from Mac...The Scottish play, Anne Hathaway, the bubonic plague and Queen Elizabeth herself!
The Shakespeare Show, written almost entirely in Iambic Pentameter, is another "relentlessly clever, action-packed and intellectually satisfying" adventure complete with puppets, songs, satire and sword-fights!

Mini Masterpieces

Awakening young minds to the joys of reading!
Each performance consists of three classics of literature miniaturized into 15 minute adaptations with puppets, songs, masks, dance, satire, physical theatre, and audience participation. 

Running at Chemainus Theatre Festival December 2009
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Rip Van WInkle by Washington Irving
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Touring Spring 2010!
Rumpelstiltskin by The Brothers Grimm
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (back by popular demand!)

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