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FORTS! Build Your Own Adventure

FORTS! Build Your Own Adventure

We're turning the Gillian Theatre into a cozy living room, overflowing with cardboard boxes. What happens next is up to you.

  • Conceived and Directed by Julie Ritchey
  • Created in collaboration with Eleanor Kahn
  • Jeffrey Levin
  • Christian Libonati
  • Andrew Marikis
  • And Carley Walker

Running time: 60 minutes. Audiences are encouraged to arrive up to 15 minutes early to participate in pre-show activities.

LAST SEASON’S RUNAWAY HIT IS BACK! 

Enter a world of imagination and creation as our friends from Filament Theatre transform Writers Theatre into an interactive play-space for the young and young at heart. Devise your own adventure using cardboard boxes, sheets, clothespins, couches and more. With theatrical design elements working together to support creative play, all are sure to be swept away in the fun. 

Synopsis

creative team

Eleanor Kahn

Set Designer

Jeffrey Levin

Sound Designer

Joel Vishuk

Lighting Designer

Carley Walker

Original Lighting Designer

Andrew Marikis

Facilitation Designer
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