Amphibian carla gunn6/29/2023 ![]() I'm as convinced My Family will captivate the imaginations and intellects of adults as I am that it will travel beyond this production and this city. it should prove as enthralling and entertaining for tweens and teens as it will prove enlightening. "One of the beauties of this show is its unapologetic theatricality. ![]() “Fantastically entertaining, funny and smart.” - Jessica Goldman, CBC Calgary’s Eyeopener Hours spent watching documentaries on the Green Channel have left him better informed than most adults about pollution, the plight of animals being robbed of their habitats, and the burden humans have placed on our rapidly decaying Earth. ![]() So when his fourth-grade class gets a White’s tree frog as a pet, all of Phin’s anxieties come to a boil. Phin Walsh, the nine-year-old narrator of Carla Gunn’s debut novel, is the kind of kid who could only be described as sensitive. ![]() And then there’s the constant news from his favourite TV station, the Green Channel, about how humans are ruining the environment, a fact Phin is growing increasingly anxious about. Take for example his mom, who insists he learn to fall asleep on his own, even though all young mammals sleep with their mothers or his dad, who recently picked up and left the family, a behaviour quite unlike other mate-for-life animals. Nine-year-old Phineas interprets the world through his encyclopedic knowledge of animals, but some human behaviour is just too puzzling. *Written with Braden Griffiths, adapted from the novel "Amphibian" by Carla Gunn. ![]()
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