“Waves, All That Glows Sees” To Enchant Families at Flushing Town Hall

On Saturday, May 25, and Sunday, May 26, families with young children can partake in a magical and mesmerizing theatrical experience at Flushing Town Hall. There will be three performances of “Waves, All That Glows Sees” in three different languages, English, Spanish and Mandarin.

Waves, all that Glows Sees, is a beautiful, immersive sea story with live music. To begin, families follow a little pathway of shells and stones into a big tent as they listen to the sound of someone playing the harmonica. Once inside, they encounter a tall man who is dreaming of the sea. As he enchants the audiences with his gentle music, he makes sand, turtles, seagulls, and fish appear, and then dune grass, the sky, and boats, as time passes. The performance is like a charming “postcard,” offering images, music, words, and silence, resembling a poem for someone you love or a holiday on an invented beach.

This one-of-a-kind family experience was created by the Théâtre des Confettis, a Canadian troupe known for audacious choices and a significant contribution to the development of dramatic arts for children and young people.

“When we first saw Waves by Théâtre des Confettis all the adults and children were mesmerized by the beautiful atmosphere their performance created,” says Flushing Town Hall’s Executive and Artistic Director Ellen Kodadek. “I can’t wait to see how our audiences will react to this charming performance at an imagined beach, filled with music, poetry, and silence. We are thrilled to be one of a handful of theatres in New York City that bring programming for very young audiences. It’s taken us 6 years to bring Waves to NYC!”

Take a sneak-peek of this adorable show here.

In-Person Tickets:
$15 General Admission; $12 for Members, Seniors, and Students with ID; $8 for Children
The show is suitable for children ages 18 months to 4 years. Each show runs approx. 45 minutes.

In English: Sat, May 25, 2024 @ 1:00pm
En Español: Sat, May 25, 2024 @ 3:00pm
In Mandarin/English: Sun, May 26, 2024 @ 2:15pm

Tickets can be purchased here or by calling the box office at (718) 463-7700 x 222.

About the Théâtre des Confettis
Founded in Québec City in 1977, the company has created thirty-one shows to date. Fifteen of these productions, or the artists associated with them, have been honored by various award programs either as finalists or prize winners. For their work on Waves, all that Glows Sees,
Véronique Côté, who created the show, was a finalist for the direction award and Josué Beaucage was finalist for the Bernard-Bonnier award for music and musical environment from the Théâtre du Trident Foundation, through the Prix d’excellence des arts et de la culture of Québec (2012).

The Théâtre des Confettis places children at the center of its work, valuing their dreamy, poetic, heartfelt and sometimes crazy reactions, their laughter and their tears, and their fresh, curious and wide-awake approach. At each stage in the creative process, childhood is a constant reference point and focus in a non-condescending, non-patronizing way.

With their passion for images and music and their fascination with the power of beauty, Frédéric Brunet, Marianne Marceau, and Maxime Robin hope to make Théâtre des Confettis a home for artistic exchanges, where intuition and pleasure play central roles, and where the focus is always on children and their audacity, honesty, and curiosity.

Whether as performers, stage directors or audience members, they have celebrated the deeply poetic and uncompromising artistry of Théâtre des Confettis’ works. They have sought to create accessible, entertaining, and moving works that help us to understand the human condition, believing that theater functions like a magnifying glass hanging over the world and the individual; that it allows us to observe things in detail and reveals all that is most tender, most disconcerting, most significant. Seeing a performance is a time to contemplate, to understand, and to embrace the world in every one of its delicate and vertiginous aspects.

Brief descriptions of the show in Spanish and Mandarin, which may be useful for non-English-speaking audiences:

En Español:

Únase a nosotros en Waves, all that Glows Sees, una historia marina mágica, fascinante y teatral con música en vivo. Para comenzar, sigues un pequeño camino de conchas y piedras que te lleva a una gran tienda de campaña. Se puede escuchar a alguien tocando la armónica. Un hombre alto sueña con el mar. Hace aparecer la arena, luego las tortugas, las gaviotas y los peces, y luego la hierba de las dunas, el cielo, los barcos y el tiempo que pasa. El hombre no tiene paciencia.. Se convierte en un tesoro anhelado. Otro marinero hace música y deja flotar su voz sobre el océano. Público de todas las edades quedará encantado con esta encantadora “tarjeta postal de una playa imaginada” con música, poesía y silencio.

In Mandarin:

与我们一起观看《Waves, all that Glows Sees》，这是一个带有现场音乐的神奇、迷人、戏剧性的海洋故事。首先，您沿着一条由贝壳和石头组成的小路进入一个大帐篷。你可以听到有人吹口琴；一个高大的男人正在梦想着大海：他让沙子出现，然后是乌龟、海鸥和鱼，然后是沙丘草、天空、船只和流逝的时间。这个人不知道如何等待……他成为等待的宝藏。另一位水手创作音乐，让他的声音飘过大海。所有年龄段的观众都会被这张充满音乐、诗歌和沉默的迷人 “来自想象的海滩的明信片”所吸引

This engagement is supported by The Audience-Building Project, a program of the Lake Placid Center for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts with support from the Governor, New York State Legislature and the Québec Government Office in New York.

For more upcoming events at Flushing Town, visit:
https://www.flushingtownhall.org/fth-presents