Cinderella in Muddy York

Young Ella, born and raised in Muddy York, seems to be the only member of her family able to cope with daily life in their squalid cabin at the edge of civilization. But will her newly landed step mother and sisters squash Ella’s self esteem as they attempt to reduce her to servitude?

When an invitation arrives from Government House, inviting them all to a ball in honour of the city’s renaming to Toronto, hopes are high of meeting the eligible bachelor son of the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. But will Ella get there, against the conniving of her step mother’s social pretensions and through the deep mud of the new town’s unpaved streets? Cinderella in Muddy York is performed with beautiful rod-marionettes, amazing magical transformations, ingenious staging that evokes settler life, and the Puppetmongers witty characterization and acting.

Monday, January 1st performance at 2:00 P.M.