The Screamer at Carousel Theatre for Young People

Vancouver, BC – Carousel Theatre for Young People (CTYP) presents the English world premiere of Québecois playwright Carol Cassistat’s The Screamer, at Carousel Theatre’s Studio A on Granville Island (1411 Cartwright St), from February 17-22, 2025. Translated by Co-Artistic & Managing Director Dave Deveau, this astonishingly poetic text about reclaiming one’s voice is performed by fellow Co-Artistic & Managing Director Jennica Grienke, along with

a drummer on a full drum kit.

In The Screamer we meet Flo Beaurivage, who has been screaming her feelings from the day she was born. She needs to scream, to cry, to wail… but where? But as we get older, it becomes less socially acceptable to let our big emotions out wherever and whenever we want. What can she do once she’s grown up and there is nowhere left in society where you are allowed to be loud. So she learns to hide her screams wherever she can. Which works, until it doesn’t. And now Flo can no longer contain her screams and finds herself at the edge of the sea almost as if something was calling her there all along. Told with a combination of poetic text, a drum set, and two performers, Le Criard/The Screamer will entertain, engage, and maybe even make you scream!