Arts Umbrella’s annual Expressions Theatre Festival takes place from May 12 to June 11

Month-long event features performances from the school’s junior, senior, and musical theatre troupes

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Expressions Theatre Festival, presented by RBC, is an annual culmination of work by Arts Umbrella’s pre-professional students in the Robert M. Ledingham School of Theatre, Music & Film.

This year’s festival, which runs from May 12 to June 11, will mount two musicals and two plays for several showings at the Jack and Darlene Poole Theatre.

Jon Jory’s play The Boxcar Children, on stage from May 12 to 19, tells the tale of four resilient orphans in the 1920s. Elaine Avila’s environment-centric play Hummingbird, created as part of Arts Umbrella’s Eco Theatre Project, explores a pipeline project’s curious disruption from May 13 to 20.

From May 27 to June 10 audiences get to see Jasper in Deadland, a musical journey into the afterlife written by Hunter Foster and Ryan Scott Oliver; and The Secret Garden: Spring Version from June 3 to 11, a musical written by Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon about an orphan’s interaction with a spirit-filled garden.

Festival tickets can be found at Arts Umbrella.

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