Gather
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A play for young audiences and families...
60 minutes | Interactive
Written with Julie Ritchey at Filament Theatre in Chicago
Cast: 2 actors
A play about finding our way back together again...
When their town goes into a deep freeze and everyone is stuck inside, people start to lose their connection to the world.
Words vanish for a librarian, food loses taste for a chef, and a mail carrier has no mail to deliver.
Two friends work to find one-another again to rediscover their town, with the hope that everyone they love will be able to gather again.
Premiere: Filament Theatre, February 2022
Nomination: Tom Hendry Award, Theatre for Young Audience, 2022.
CBC's The Weekend Morning Show
MEDIA RECOGNITION FOR JULIA LEDERER AND GATHER AT MTYP IN 2025:
LIVE TV APPREARANCE ON : CTV MORNING SHOW (Winnipeg)
Other Press
MTYP Interview with playwrights Julia Lederer & Julie Ritchey
“Unlocking Lockdown” The Winnipeg Free Press (feature interview)
“Stage Debut” The Winnipeg Free Press (about Gather opening a new theatre)
Gather was also produced Talespinner Childrens Theatre in Cleveland, with a
double cast including two sign language translators.
AT the Manitoba Theatre for Young People:
Gather was produced at Manitoba Theatre for Young People in Winnipeg, directed by Pablo Felices-Luna. It opened the theatre’s new Richardson Studio Space.
“The prose itself is deliciously imagistic, its poetic sensibility ... underscoring the
allegorical play’s fantastical nature.”
– Holly Harris, Winnipeg Free Press
“So much of Gather is about not just how we cope, but what it’s like when everything you know is suddenly taken away, what you have left and how you feel value and love… The play is about how a community copes and is able to come together. But as hard as it is to be apart, it can also be difficult to come back.” – Winnipeg Free Press
