VictoriaB次元官网网址檚 Kaleidoscope Theatre troupe returns this weekend for its 44th season with The Secret Garden.
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ItB次元官网网址檚 the first of KaleidscopeB次元官网网址檚 three upcoming shows this season. Next is Peter Pan the pantomime, Dec. 28 to 30, followed by Pinocchio, March 10 and 11.
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Kaleidoscope will again use GlanvilleB次元官网网址檚 stage adaptation of Frances Hodgson BurnettB次元官网网址檚 1911 novel, as it did four years ago.
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The 2016-17 season had two of KaleidoscopeB次元官网网址檚 biggest breakthroughs in recent memory as the introduction of a pantomime, Snow White, went over well. So did the bilingual performance of Little Prince.
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Writer and directer by infusing the type of genre-specific twists that make up a pantomime, and is back to do Peter Pan.
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Glanville still finds himself explaining pantomimes, a traditional English stage show with specific formulas.
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Pinocchio will bring an end to the season, the classic tale of the boy who never grew up. Kaleidoscope has partnered with renowned Kaska/Tlingit artist Dean Heron in the stage design for their adaptation of Carlo CollodiB次元官网网址檚 famous tale.
Kaleidoscope also runs theatre school programs for between 100 and 200 people per year, youth aged three to five, and five to 17, at Cedar Hill and Juan de Fuca rec centres.
