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Ticket orders will also be taken over the phone through the Park & Recreation Dept.
by calling 832-5905. (There is no need to come into the Park & Rec offices!).
After July 8, tickets may be purchased at the Box Office only."
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With sparse settings, props, and costumes, “Story Theatre” creates a very open concept on the strong cultural framework of Grimm Brothers and Aesop fables. Stories in this play are all familiar, including “Bremen Town Musicians,” “The Golden Goose,” “The Fisherman and His Wife,”
and “Henny Penny.” This Tony award-winning play is still meaningful, and the message relevant; each story within the play gives the actors and director leeway to interpret and deliver meaning without the hindrance of props and pretense.
Just like children’s stories are not always accompanied by specific visual references and are left to the imagination, this story leaves the audience the chance to imagine the parts as the actors create expressive, improvisational interpretations of each story.
In the author’s words, “Pantomime is an art form, sister to the dance that uses invisible objects as an actor uses lines. The purpose of space substances objects is not to develop such techniques (although they could be used to do so), but rather to awaken that intuitive area which understands and sees this physical evidence of the heretofore hidden inner self. Recognition of this added dimension of the world brings excitement and refreshment to all. When the invisible (not yet emerged, inside, unknown) becomes visible, seen and perceived-theatre magic! This 'hidden self,' by the way, this 'invisible inner self' is what fairy stories are about.”
- From The Drama Theater Teacher, Vol. 5, No.2
It is this excitement and freshness that we hope to share with our youth in this setting. Their energy and enthusiasm is contagious.
Little Peasant “Little Peasant” |
Kody Kellner Alyssa Rogoff Matthew Vanden Boogaard Ben Fischer Charlie Fischer Kyle Kapocius Megan Larsen Mackenzie Larsen Olivia Checkalski Saul Roselaar Chloe Allyn Jess Kostopolus Alex Long Paul Knapp Claudia Tourville |
P.O. Box 41
Appleton, WI 54912920-734-7887attictheatre@gmail.com