Every year, L'UniThéâtre presents a production for young audiences that tours francophone and French immersion elementary schools in Alberta. With their purchase of one or more performances, schools will receive a learning guide specially tailored for teachers in order to help them prepare their students for the play they are about to watch. Teachers will be able to guide their students’ discovery of the play and its themes through a variety of games and activities for all ages and interests.

CoSt : $1250

Early bird (before october 5th 2026): $1150

Le Criard

A L’UniThéâtre and Théâtre du Gros Mécano coproduction

Touring Alberta schools from March 29th to May 7th 2027
Public performance at Servus Credit Union Theatre on April 4th 2027

WRITTEN BY: Carol Cassistat

Florent is desperate—he can’t keep the storms within him contained any longer and needs a place to release them. He finally offers up his screams to the sky above the mountains that surround him, until one day, the echo of a distant voice reaches him like a memory tucked deep in the heart of the Rockies, near the rush of a river...

This play for young audiences aged 8 and up deftly explores themes of self-expression, emotion, and communication in an artistic and immersive form that blends text, rhythm and imagination. Le Criard has been presented in French across Quebec and in Yukon; it has been translated and performed in Italian, and in English in Vancouver. L’UniThéâtre and Théâtre du Gros Mécano are adapting the show to give it a franco-albertain twist, both to ground the play in the province’s geographical landscape and to make it feel like home.