WATER WONDERS Set for Toronto Fringe Festival

Award-winning director, Sue Miner teams up with playwright Cheryl McNamara to present Water Wonders at the Toronto Fringe Festival. The festival's very first outdoor production for young audiences, Water Wonders is about one boy's love of nature and his fight to preserve it.

Presented by Wunder Kid Productions, Water Wonders is a site-specific show performing at the garden courtyard of St. George the Martyr Church (205 John Street, Toronto), June 30 - July 10.

Miner and McNamara worked together in 2001 and 2004 to present Dick's a Dame (co-written by Jane Moffat) and Dizzy and Dale Chronicles, respectively at the Toronto Fringe Festival. No stranger to the Toronto Fringe Festival, Miner's most recent Toronto Fringe production, Three Men in a Boat (2014) was named Best of the Fringe and went on to perform at the Tata Festival in Mumbai, India, Globus Theatre, The Next Stage Festival and Fringe Festivals in Canada.

In addition to Water Wonders, Miner is directing, for the Toronto Fringe, INTO by David Carley about a magic realism traffic jam.

Joining the Water Wonders company are acting veteran, Brenda Kamino, and Chase Jeffels, Michelle Langille and Mike Ricci. Alexa Carroll will stage manage the show.

At a time when children are disconnected from nature like never before, and when nature really needs our help, Water Wonders offers young people and their families an engaging outdoor theatre experience about our deep connection with nature and one another.

"Water Wonders was inspired by a conversation I had with a friend and expert in biodiversity," says McNamara who founded the Toronto chapter of the Citizens' Climate Lobby. "I asked her if she could do one thing to make a difference what it would be. She said: to teach children the importance of nature. I immediately thought of writing a play about a boy's fight to save it."

Water Wonders is appropriate for ages 8 and up. In case of rain, the show will perform in the sanctuary at St. George the Martyr Church.

Dates and times: June 30 (7 p.m.), July 2 (4 p.m. & 7 p.m.), July 3 (4 p.m. & 7 p.m.), July 5 (7 p.m.), July 7 (7 p.m.), July 8 (7 p.m.), July 9 (4 p.m. & 7 p.m.), July 10 (4 p.m. & 7 p.m.).

Wunder Kid Productions was created to produce Water Wonders at the Toronto Fringe Festival.

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