Charlotte’s Web back onstage for holiday run at Alberta Theatre Projects in Calgary [Video]

Calgarians from five to 105 are invited to watch as an unlikely friendship forms between a human, a pig, and a spider.

Starting with a preview on Nov. 26, the set at the Martha Cohen Theatre at Arts Commons will be transformed into a farmyard for Alberta Theatre Project’s (ATP) holiday presentation of Charlotte’s Web, based on the E.B. White book.

Ellis Lalonde will be Wilbur, a piglet whose life is spared thanks to a girl named Fern, played by Alice Wordsworth.

“But as he grows and begins to cost his owners a fortune in feed, it will take help from all his new farmyard friends to save his life again, including the miraculous talents of a very special grey spider, ‘Charlotte, (played by Julie Orton),’” said ATP in a media release.

Calgarian Rebecca Northan explains it’s been an absolute delight directing this production.

“Bringing back warm memories of sitting on a hopscotch carpet, at the back of …