The Places We Go

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Company: UNIT Productions

Genre: Unclassifiable

Venue: 3 Pantages Studio

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I've never seen anything like The Places We Go before.

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It tells the affecting story of Grace, a girl living in Manila and trying to get money to buy her mom a plane ticket home from Winnipeg for her birthday.

With respect to the experiences of Winnipeg immigrants, however, it isn't the plot that makes this so special, it's the presentation. A "live graphic novel," The Places We Go unfolds on a screen as the performers mix projected images, recorded audio, acting and shadow puppetry on the spot.

Sometimes the sound of flipping acetate threatens to overwhelm the in-show sound, or we can hear the performers whispering instructions to each other, but these are small prices to pay for such a singular theatrical experience and for bearing witness to an artistic endeavor whose resultfar exceeds the sum of its parts.

A singular theatrical experience and an artisticendeavor whose result far exceeds the sum of its parts.- Kelly Stifora

Billed as 60 minutes, but actually about 35.