Whip-smart CHILD-ISH puts the words of kids into the mouths of adults, streaming via the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts on October 15

Sunny Drake’s verbatim theatre piece tackles topics that will move you as much as they make you laugh

The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts streams CHILD-ISH on October 15 at 7:30 pm.

THE CONCEPT is brilliant: take children’s exact words about love, life, and the world and perform them through the mouth of adults.

The Shadbolt Centre is giving you a rare chance to see the result of Toronto-based writer-creator Sunny Drake’s fun but often moving and serious verbatim theatre project in an online-only performance October 15.

He draws the text directly from interviews with more than 40 whip-smart and brutally honest children, as they hold court on topics as loaded as marriage, friendship, death, racism, and more. Adding to the experiment is that the dynamite adult cast performs these words in a playground setting in this filmed production—aimed at an adult audience that promises to be equally surprised and educated.

This is just one piece of Drake’s larger CHILD-ISH project that includes a web series, an upcoming podcast, a live performance and an inter-generational process.

Tune in to see what lessons can come out of the mouths of babes.

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