Created by Gale Force Theatre
- Run time: 45 minutes
- Grade levels: Primary – Grade 5
- Maximum number of kids per show: 250
- Format: Live, in-person
- Price: $750 for 1 show, $1250 for two shows
- Workshops available for an additional cost
While We Wait is a play for elementary school students that explores the year in the life of a young girl as she discovers the beauty of the four seasons through a magical garden shed. This play features various forms of puppetry as well as live music by Nova Scotia percussionist Erin Donovan. It’s a whimsical first introduction to live performance. The performance is highly visual with a minimal amount of spoken language–great for kids at all levels of language development.
Additional workshops available
Shadow puppetry with Gale Force Theatre In While We Wait, students experience various forms of puppetry including shadow puppetry. In this workshop, your class will get to try their hand at creating their own shadow puppets and try them out on portable shadow screens. Students will learn about colour, shape, and practice visual storytelling in this fun introduction to puppetry.
About Gale Force Theatre
Gale Force Theatre was started by Mount Allison University graduates, Franziska Glen and Lily Falk. It was in blustery Sackville, NB in 2015 over hot bowls of ratatouille that Lily and Franziska began to dream up plans of creating theatre together that were as handmade as their ratatouille, as an strong and sturdy as the winds that whipped off the Tantramar Marshes and as filled with heart as their friendship.
Based both in Kjipuktuk/Halifax and Upper Lahave, Nova Scotia, their work spans productions for children and adults that includes new works, devised productions, and puppetry. Their production Crypthand, written by Lily Falk, won Outstanding Emerging Production at the Nova Scotia Merritt Awards (2022) and the Playwright Guild of Canada’s Emerging Playwright Award (2022). In 2020/21, they created A Tale on Two Wheels, an outdoor show for very young audiences that’s delivered to parks across Nova Scotia on tandem bicycle. Alongside creating and producing new work, Gale Force Theatre also runs outdoor theatre making courses for teens and pre-teens in partnership with local outdoor centres. They currently have two new devised shows for young audiences, While We Wait, a show about change and growth and Lupinder’s Tent, a tiny spectacle for a tiny audience.