I Scream, You Scream… Justice!

Serving laughs for the entire family!

A comedic puppet adventure from Velvet Wells, for young (and young at heart) audiences

Ottawa Fringe box office for Show Dates and Tickets ($14 plus fees)

Premieres at the 2025 Ottawa Fringe Festival

Puppetry, Comedy, Musical, Whimsy

Think “Mr. Dressup,” “The Muppet Show,” and “Degrassi” remixed for 2025

“Afi Ata’s favourite ice cream shoppe is under new management and has stopped selling Chocolate Caramel – her favourite ice cream flavour! She got banned for speaking out. Last night she had a dream about being bigger and winning over the new owners with powerful words. Today, she’s going to make her dreams come true and have justice served!”

Approximately 50 minutes; All Fringe Festival shows are a maximum of 60 minutes

Bonus content

Prizes! Merry Dairy has come aboard to offer post-show treats
Performer cameos from other productions!
Post-show audience talkback with the performer
PLUS: free sprinkles of sass, song, and silliness

Access Measure Guide

Inside: Mobility Device; Mask-Mandatory; ASL-English Interpretation; Captions; Audio Description; Half price tickets; Audience Participation

Access Measure Guide (PDF) now available!

Unified Courage Collective

Produced by Unified Courage Collective X Velvet Duke Productions

Velvet Wells (producer, creator, puppeteer, set design concept)
Katherine Sibun (ASL-English Interpretation)
Andie Wells (show concept support, set designer)
Jinesea Lewis (show concept support)

Production Team
Glency Lopez (stage manager, lighting design)
Corinne Viau (assistant stage manager, stage puppet support)

Photos of Velvet and the puppets: Melody Maloney Photography

Sponsors

Thanks to Merry Dairy (102 Fairmont Ave, at Gladstone) for accepting our call for post-show Ice Cream!

Merry Dairy makes dairy and vegan ice creams and all their products are peanut, tree nut and sesame free

Serious words about a silly show

The inside scoop: Through puppetry, and an ice cream flavour as a metaphor for bigotry, follow Afi Ata, a young queer Black girl, as she rallies her family and friends to heal their community through accountability.

Written with reverence for the child’s perspective, a love of sassiness and silliness, the show features three original songs, two dance numbers, and audience talkbacks.

This production is relevant to today’s issues around identity and the need to come together as a community. It’ll hit you in the feels if you like:

Puppets – bravely saying what others don’t
Songs – earworm worthy bops!
Affirming – being seen, heard, and making a difference

Themes: Being Black, being queer, coming of age, transformative justice, community building.

Take aways

let children be part of the conversation
strength in numbers
community building comes from repairing/healing our community ties