"We believe young people have as rich an emotional life as adults. They are limited in experience, but their joys and heartaches, victories and defeats, are felt with as much power and passion as adults. In creating theatre for them, we try to find themes that express as many of those feelings as possible. We cast a net wide into their lives (and our own), a net which becomes heavy and full and very hard to pull out of the sea. But we are never alone. There are directors and designers and actors and technicians and when we all pull, the net comes over the side full of ideas and feelings and laughter and recognition. Feast - not Fast Food. Simple - not Simplistic. Involve the audience - don’t distract it. Emotionally powerful - not superficial. Talking to - not talking down to. These are the guiding principles and tremendous challenges in creating a theatre for children."
—David S. Craig, Artistic Director
