our failure [is] to understand, to recognize, to celebrate our non-humanity, our animality if we could overcome this failure and come to terms with our animalilty, there may be some hope. - Farley Mowat

Clay & Paper Theatres 2014 summer show is an epic papier-mch tale of the search for the way home. ANIMAL NATURE is filled with a decidedly Canadian mlange of creature characters and giant puppets on a fateful journey to the very edges of the earth itself. Owl, Caribou, Possum, Grizzly, Orca and Humanimal have been displaced from their homes and must address the deceptively simple question How did we get pushed here? Provocative puppetry at its best, ANIMAL NATURE is brimming with original design, music, dance, and signature Clay & Paper Theatre satire and wit gone awry. With its cast of puppet tricksters and merrymakers, Animal Nature rallies audiences to embrace their inner animals, to revel in the beauty of the earth and to find the way home together.

Conceived and directed by Clay & Paper Theatre Founder and Artistic Director David Anderson and written by David Anderson, Tamara Romanchuk, Anna Sapershteyn, and Maria Wodzinska, ANIMAL NATURE features Music Direction by Chris Wilson, Designs by Liudmila Lipovskaya and Craig Morrison , and a stellar cast of emerging professionals: Sara Ahmadieh, Gavin Bowerman, Darla Contois, Dana Prieto, Ruthie Pytka-Jones, Anna Sapershteyn and Maria Wodzinska.

VENUE: Dufferin Grove Park

875 Dufferin St., South of Bloor St. W.,

across from Dufferin Mall

PERFORMANCES: August 2 to August 17, 2014 Wednesday through Sunday @ 7:30pm

ADMISSION: Pay-What-You-Can, $10 suggested.

No reservations necessary.

MEDIA CONTACT: Hillari Blumfald clayandpaper@sympatico.ca 416.708.3332

PHOTOS: Please contact us at clayandpaper@sympatico.ca for production photos. We also welcome media photographers at all Clay & Paper Theatre events.