The Missoula Children’s Theatre (MCT) is bringing a performance of Gulliver’s Travels to Estevan to open the local Koncerts for Kids series.
The MCT is the largest touring children’s theatre in the U.S. It has been touring extensively for 35 years, and will visit more than 1,200 communities this year, with 36 teams of tour actors and directors. A tour team arrives in a given town with a set, lights, costumes, props and make-up, and everything else it takes to put on a play, except the cast.
So they’re turning to local youth in a quest for performers.
An open audition will take place on Sept.. 17 at Westview School, starting at 4 p.m., and a cast of 50-60 local youths will be selected that day to perform in the show. The production will be rehearsed throughout the week, and then two performances will happen for the public.
All MCT shows are original adaptations of classic children’s stories and fairy tales.
The performance for Estevan will be at the Souris Valley Theatre’s Frehlick Hall on Sept. 23 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets are available in advance from Henders Drugs or can be purchased at the door.
Gulliver’s Travels tells the story of brave explorer Gulliver, whose ship is wrecked and his trusty computer JCN on the fritz. He is lost in space with nothing but an invisible force to guide him.
While travelling from world to world, under the control of the maniacal scientist of Lapunta, Gulliver ends up fighting aliens, arrogant horse leaders of the foolish Yahoos, larger-than-life royalty (in more ways than one) and robots – all who need as much help from Gulliver as Gulliver needs from them.
