So, when a White’s tree frog ends up in an aquarium in his fourth-grade classroom, it’s the last straw, and he stages an elaborate rescue.Īdapted and performed by Downstage Creation Ensemble members Braden Griffiths and Ellen Close, My Family and Other Endangered Species is a funny, imaginative and moving new play that will engage young adults and adults alike with a fast-paced story about environmental anxiety and puppets that transform from everyday objects. In nine-year-old Phineas Walsh, Carla Gunn has created a narrator that is perceptive, hilarious and frustrating, as he grapples with humanity's seeming indifference to the rapid destruction of our animals and our planet. To make things to-infinity worse, Phin is worried sick about what humans are doing to the planet, and his mother is worried sick about him. What he doesn’t understand, though, is why his parents can’t live together – after all, when other mate-for-life animals have a fight, it’s not like one of them just packs his bags and leaves the country.
Nine-year-old Phineas William Walsh has an encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world.
Shortlisted for the 2010 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. “I think happiness is the whole problem – everyone, including my own mother, wants to be happy all the time, and nobody wants to be worried, even though they super, to-infinity should be.” Read 91 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. The World Premiere of MY FAMILY AND OTHER ENDANGERED SPECIESĪdapted from the novel Amphibian by Carla Gunnīig Secret Theatre, EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts
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