From a letter to the Vancouver Children's Festival:

...I wanted to say thank you for bringing the theatre troupe which performed Zoom at Sea. As an educator and a parent it seems to me that the old art of storytelling (and along with it the art of listening and imagining) is quickly dying.

What a joy it was for me to sit with my child in front of performers who did not dazzle or shock, but who told a story so very well that my imagination -- and more importantly, my daughter's imagination -- could take flight.

Perhaps other festival goers mentioned the circus or stilt walkers as the things that they were most impressed by, rather than the production of Zoom at Sea. But I looked around...everyone in the audience was captivated by the storytelling.

So thanks to you and thanks to the troupe. I'd love to see more of this kind of production next year!

Thank you,
Joanna Shniad

I love this dear show...Thank you for your inventiveness, your lovely portrayals, and for the clear delight you have in your work.?

-Marti Maraden, Director of English Theatre, NAC

Quiet and gentle and often quite abstract...The show brought together symbolic elements, like a flowing cloth to represent the sea, and specific props, such as a spectacular model of the seagoing vessel The Catship...several of the props were inspired, like a hand-held section of bookshelf which Zoom jumps through to enter another world.

-The Saskatoon Star Phoenix