It’s Opening Night of the
2026 Niagara Children’s Festival!
Join us at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts for opening remarks at 7:00PM followed by a production of Burrow by Les Incomplètes and Théâtre du Gros Mécano. Plus ... celebrate the festival opening with a post-show reception.
Schedule
7:00pm - Opening Remarks & Welcome Address
7:15pm - Performance of Burrow
8:00pm - Post-show Reception
Burrow
Age: 4+
Run Time: 45 minutes
Deep in the forest, two little creatures bustle about, collecting their provisions. Acorns, pine nuts and mushrooms, pebbles, apples and branches: every item is counted and tucked away in the burrow’s belly. One inventories, rations and studies… The other writes, ponders, relishes… Their friendship, peppered with little quibbles, sews the flow of the seasons. Yet somehow, something has come between them.
Can we live without others? What kind of effort does friendship take? How are we to reconcile our differences? Burrow brings the young audience member on the pathway of friendship and living together, in a playful, poetic and wordless theatre experience.
A co-production of Les Incomplètes and Théâtre du Gros Mécano.
Special Thanks:
Burrow is a show that was created in 2014 and subsequently toured from 2014 to 2019, giving a total of 122 performances in Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, France, Italy, and China. The show was revived at the request of Théâtre jeunesse Les Gros becs in the fall of 2024 to mark its 10th anniversary, and approximately fifty performances followed in 2024-2025 and 2025-2026!
Creative Team:
Original idea – The Incomplete Ones
Dramaturgy – The Collective
Directed by – Josiane Bernier and Carol Cassistat
Performers – Audrey Marchand and Laurence P. Lafaille
Sets, costumes and props – Dominique Giguère
Original music and sound environment – Pascal Robitaille
Treasure Menus – Pascal Robitaille, assisted by Philippe Lessard-Drolet
Images and videos – Marylin Laflamme and Dominique Giguère