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Book-It All Over tours original adaptations of stories for children, young adults, and adults alike to schools, libraries, and community venues. Actors and arts educators perform stories in the unique Book-It Style™, which preserves the narrative text as it is spoken, not by a single "narrator" but as dialogue by the characters in the production and uses simple staging to challenge viewers' imaginations. Each performance runs between 25 and 45 minutes and can be performed in venues as small as a classroom or as large as an auditorium.
In conjunction with each performance, Book-It offers workshops for children and young adults to reinforce what they have seen. Students can use voice, body, and imagination to create characters and explore environments, or develop a play in the Book-It Style™ from their own story. These workshops allow young people to make the leap between seeing art and creating it.
WORKSHOP CHOICES Themes in Motion Students enter the world of the story using voice, body, and imagination to explore themes, characters, and events.(Grades K-2, 30-45 min) Adapt It! Stage It! Students analyze a selection of text, adapt it in the Book-It Style, and stage it for an informal performance.(Grades 3-12, one hour, 35 students max)
Book-It Repertory Theatre's mainstage productions are available to schools through low-cost student matinées. Experience unique theatrical productions that promote the joy of reading, embrace diversity, enhance learning, and inspire the imagination.
Tickets are $10 per student with one free chaperone ticket per 10 students. All shows start at 10:30 a.m., see below for theatre location.
NEW THIS YEAR: In-class pre- and post-show workshops are available! For more information Contact Book-It All Over 206.428.6319 or education@book-it.org
PRAIRIE NOCTURNE
by Ivan Doig Adapted by Elena Hartwell, director TBA SHOWING: February 15, 2012 • Center House Theatre GRADES: 9-12
Set in 1924 Montana, Prairie Nocturne tells the story of two former lovers reunited to share in an extraordinary goal: launching the singing career of Monty Rathbun, a black chauffeur and former rodeo clown who possesses a surprisingly phenomenal voice. Doig's rich, poetic narrative runs headlong toward the challenges of racism in the West, circles back into his characters' pasts, and reels ahead into their shared futures in New York during the Harlem Renaissance.
THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN
by Garth Stein Adapted by Myra Platt, directed by Carol Roscoe SHOWING: May 2012 • Center House Theatre GRADES: 9-12
The phenomenal best seller takes us inside the mind of Enzo, a wise and loyal mutt who rides shotgun with his race-car-driving human companion. It's a story of love, tragedy, redemption, and danger-and Book-It is thrilled to feature a canine voice on stage!
For more information, to book your touring story, student matinée, or to receive a brochure call 206.428.6319 or email education@book-it.org
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