A Monster Calls

The Young Company at Cape Rep Theatre (YoCo) and program director Maura Hanlon are excited to present A Monster Calls based on the novel by Patrick Ness and inspired by an original idea by Siobhan Dowd, devised by Sally Cookson, Adam Peck and the Company. Now entering its 10th year, Cape Rep’s Young Company (YoCo) provides free professional theater training to young actors grades 8 through 12 eager to learn the craft of acting through an intensive rehearsal and production process. All interested students are welcomed into this free annual program. A Monster Calls tells a striking story of love, loss, and courage through Conor, a boy plagued by recurring nightmares. One night, his slumber is disrupted by the arrival at his window of an elemental being as old as the hills—a formidable force of nature that demands something terrifyingly fundamental and profound from him. The Young Company features a talented group of students from across the Cape supported by Cape Rep Company artists including director Maura Hanlon, associate director Ian Hamilton, Holly Erin McCarthy (costume design), Susan Nicholson (lighting design), Alison Weller (voice and speech coach), Macklin Devine (stage management and movement coach), Art Devine (stage combat), and Janine Perry (Producing Artistic Director)