Miscellaneous Productions: Beasts

Kutz & Dawgs Dept: Muttagues and Catpulets are the beasts inhabiting Kutz & Dawgs, a cut-ting-edge production by and for youth. Drawn from Romeo and Juliet, the project by Miscellaneous Productions comes to this year's Vancouver Inter-national Children's Festival with an age warning - both ways, according to Vancouver Sun. At a festival filled with shows for toddlers and the five-to-nine crowd, Kutz & Dawgs is recommended for young people 10 years and up. But not too far up, Carol warns and a dog of the house of Muttague raises the question: Why do we let our political and business leaders off the leash? "It's R&J done as alley cats and junk-yard dogs," explains Miscellaneous artistic director Elaine Carol, "so there are fights and there are deaths." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.