Fresh Mix
Created by SCP’s MERGE
Fall into the fuzzy, fragrant and fabulous world of Fresh Mix, an immersive theatre experience that engages your senses! The premiere work from Solo Chicken Productions MERGE artists, this play invites audiences inside the performance to taste, touch, smell, see, hear and play within a zesty and zany dreamworld! Open to all, but created specifically for children with intellectual disabilities and Autism, the show is a multi-sensory experience intended to tickle the senses and evoke memory.
Fresh Mix is a joyful collaboration between Solo Chicken Productions and Black Box Productions, and is created and performed by MERGE artists and St. Thomas University students. Enter our world and join us in Kyra’s Banana Apartment for a banana forward slumber party that leads Kyra and her best friend Bonnie the Banana into a festive fruit adventure. Meet the kooky kiwi’s, party with the pineapples, float through memory with the blueberries, tickle your nose with the apples and meet Grampa Mild and the Cantaloupe Story Miners. A gentle, delightful adventure for all!
What is “Immersive Theatre”?
Unlike traditional theatre, immersive theatre invites audiences to actively participate in the show instead of just observing! Fresh Mix will offer audiences the chance to engage with the show in a variety of ways, including joining performers on stage, touching props and eating snacks! This playful, flexible performance style makes for a more inclusive environment, breaking down the formal expectations of theatre and allowing audiences to engage as they wish!
About MERGE
MERGE is an initiative created by Solo Chicken Productions that brings together a team of professional artists with and without intellectual and/or physical disabilities, Autism and/or dual diagnosis, whose creative goals are to train, share skills and build a new innovative creative language. MERGE was designed to create Real Work for Real Pay for artists who have been traditionally excluded from the employment sector. All our artists are paid equally and hired because they are the right person for the job.
"I have Tourette Syndrome and I felt so relaxed during the Fresh Mix performance I didn't have a tic the whole time."
-LMK, 11 year old
"I have never dared bring my children with FASD and autism to a play before because I would be too stressed to enjoy it- this was like a dream come true for me. Knowing my kids were in a safe space to be themselves AND getting an opportunity to see actors LIKE THEM up on stage? My only question is, when is the next show?!"
Sarah D, mom of 4.
“I loved that my mom and sisters didn't have to keep whisper yelling at me to quiet down and be still. I even could pay attention with all that neat stuff going on that I got to do too!”
DA, 5 year old
“I truly have not had an experience like this! One of the best shows I've been to. Fresh Mix was engaging, funny, and the actors and story was relatable to the audience at multiple levels. This is what it means to say theatre is for everyone. 10/10, A+.”
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Fresh Mix Funders & Sponsors
The Windsor Foundation
