Celebrating Over 30 Years of Theatre for Youth

Mission Statement

Green Thumb Theatre creates and produces plays that explore social issues relevant to the lives of children, youth and young adults. We provide theatre that celebrates the language and stories of today's generation and culture to stimulate empathy, debate and critical thinking.

Profile

Green Thumb Theatre was founded in 1975 to develop original Canadian plays for young audiences. Since that time, Green Thumb has emerged as one of Canada's leading theatre companies for young people, producing excellent material for audiences and artists, and contributing to the growing body of work evolving in this field. Green Thumb demonstrates a new excitement and potential for children's theatre.

After more than 30 years, Green Thumb Theatre is still at the forefront of the Theatre in Education movement, using the emotional impact of live performance to educate and empower young people. We challenge our audience to re-examine their beliefs and prejudices and to define their feelings and aspirations.

Green Thumb believes that young Canadians face the same scope of issues, problems, concerns and interests that adults do; however, many young people are disempowered from effectively confronting difficult or complex situations, a result of societal, systemic or cultural beliefs and discriminations. As Canadian society diversifies it is more important than ever that people respect each other and each other's differences. 

Click Below for our annual report:
/PDF/AnnualRpt_08_09.pdf  

 Click here for our 2008/09 Audited Statement : /PDF/08_09Audit.pdf

What Our Plays are About

Green Thumb Theatre explores contemporary issues with an emphasis on entertainment, enlightenment and education; issues such as:

You can search our catalogue of plays by theme, title, or audience type.

Statistics

• Each year we tour every school district in British Columbia, performing to more than 125,000 children.
• We regularly tour across Canada and the United States, and we tour abroad with some productions.
• We have created original productions subsequently staged by 200 theatre companies worldwide and translated into Chinese, French, Spanish, German, Danish, Hebrew and Japanese.
• In our 30 seasons of touring & mainstage shows, we have performed over 15,000 times to 4,000,000 people in every province and 2 territories in Canada, 36 states in the U.S., Ireland, England, Scotland, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, and Mexico.

Green Thumb is a proud member of the following organizations

Arts Northwest

Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP)

BC Touring Council

California Presenters

Canadian Arts Presenting Organization/l'Assocation Canadienne des Organismes Artistiques (CAPACOA)

International Performing Arts for Youth (IPAY) http://www.ipayweb.org/

Ohio Arts Presenters Network (OAPN)

Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT)  http://www.pact.ca/index.cfm

Western Arts Alliance (WAA)

Information for these organizations can be found at their websites 

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