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Ageless Theatre . . . Priceless Memories
Our shows past and present:
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Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper |
'Jack the Ripper' brings London horror to Flint
This review appeared in The Flint Journal on October 12, 2007
The weather cooperated with Flint Youth Theatre on Thursday night by turning appropriately dark and chilly for the opening of "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper."
Executive artistic director William P. Ward's original script tells the story of the shadowy and vicious killer who stalked and killed five women in Victorian London's down and out East End. Intriguingly, "Jack" became a legend even though no one ever knew his true identity.
Walk into Elgood Theater and step literally into the fog of 1880s England. The stage floor is a cobblestone square backed by brick-faced doorways and portals authentically replicating the poor Whitechapel district. The overall effect is stunning.
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FYT's 'Eve' is good, scary fun
October 2007: Excerpted from a review that appeared in The Flint Journal on October 14, 2005
Spook-tacular fun is afoot...as Flint Youth Theatre has revived its Halloween special "All Hallows Eve." This is a visually mesmerizing black light rendition of Robert Burns' poem "Tam O'Shanter" as adapted by FYT's William P. Ward.
Black light illuminates only what is either white or painted with a special coating. This allows people dressed in dark clothing to be virtually invisible so they can then manipulate objects on the stage making them appear to float in space...
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FYT play looks at adoption
This review appeared in The Flint Journal on April 13, 2007
We are each products of heredity and environment. We may take these for granted, but what of the knowledge that these paths are divergent?
For Lisa Meredith, it comes with a jolt. She may be too young to understand why the people she calls Mom and Dad never told her that she's theirs in heart but not in biology.
"Secrets," a play by Joanna Halpert Kraus that opens tonight at Flint Youth Theatre, raises issues about adoption - and personal identity - through the story of Lisa, her parents and the woman who gave her up at birth but wants to touch her life again.
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In the Company of Pirates |
"In the Company of Pirates" good spot to land
This review appeared in The Flint Journal on July 23, 2007
As if three well-attended "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies weren't evidence enough of pop culture's continuing love of high-seas plunder, now comes "In the Company of Pirates."
Flint Youth Theatre's 50th-anniversary production romanticizes the trade of piracy through the lives of two unlikely practitioners.
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Theater groups team for stirring 'Passage'
This review appeared in The Flint Journal on February 12, 2007
A collaborative effort for Flint Youth Theatre, McCree Theatre and the Sylvester Broome Center comes together in a brilliant production of "Middle Passage."
Written by William P. Ward and directed by FYT's Ward and McCree's Billie Scott-Lindo, the play is based on a poem by Robert Hayden chronicling the shipboard horrors of the African slave trade. Set on the west coast of Africa and aboard slave ships, the play begins with a joyful assembly of song and dance presided over by an ethereal Young Woman (Aeisha Reese) who is clearly central to the culture.
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