Yukon Guides

Last fall, when leaders Stacy Lewis and Melissa Miller asked the 2nd Riverdale Guides to think about things they’d liketo do this year, the most popular choice was drama badge.

The girls worked for three months writing a play, designing costumes and sets and staging their production, all through their own imagination and hard work.

After much creative brainstorming, the girls took the Puss and Boots story and projected it into the future, having the characters meet up with Peter Pan somewhere in Italy, and setting Neverlandon the planet Neptune! With the help of Whitehorse playwright Chris Pekarik, they wrote the script, ironing out the final details, casting the play and beginning rehearsals during a weekend session at Sprucewind Girl Guide Camp.

While most of the girls have had little or no experience in theatre and drama, they benefitted from the help of a new leader, Heather Read, who is an intern at the Yukon Arts Centre. Under her direction, the girls began exploring their dramatic talents and
learning about the magical world of the theatre.

Heather also introduced them to the working world of the theatre,when she took them for a backstage tour of the Yukon Arts Centre, where, on Monday evening, March 3, the curtain rose on their very own production, to an enthusiastic audience that included
the girls’ family and friends.