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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 author's voice by speaking every written word and using 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 (Grades K-2, 45 min) Based on the story presented, the teaching artists use creative dramatics to take the students through different themes. Storytelling Standing Up (Grades 3-12, one hour) 30 students write a seven-sentence story, adapt it into the Book-It Style™, are cast and directed by the teaching artists, then perform their literary creation.
Book-It Repertory Theatre’s 20th Anniversary 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.
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES by John Kennedy Toole SHOWING: October 7, 2009 • GRADES: 9-12 THEMES: fate, modern economic slavery, American work ethic
This cult classic and comic masterpiece of the southern literary canon is the tale of the slothful Ignatius J. Reilly, writer, cultural critic, bastion of morality, advocate for the disenfranchised and nemesis of industry, as he ventures out into the working world to support his despairing mother. Its kaleidoscopic cast of Big Easy characters completes Toole’s comic masterpiece.
EMMA by Jane Austen SHOWING: October 27, 28, November 4, 11, 18, 2009 GRADES: 4-12 • THEMES: Friendship, self-awareness, generosity, honesty, communication
Jane Austen’s fourth novel is a sparkling comedy of 19th-century manners centering on the well-intentioned Emma and her sometimes indiscreet, often misapplied, and always entertaining efforts as matchmaker. Austen’s deliciously droll descriptions and generous happy endings are Book-It fan favorites.
THE RIVER WHY by David James Duncan SHOWING: February 24, March 3, 2010 GRADES: 6-12 • THEMES: environment, family, finding identity, patience
Young Gus leaves his quirky, obsessive fishing family to search for his own truth. Every zen-like cast of his pole propels his inward journey and opens his eyes to the possibilities of life around him. Set in the Pacific Northwest, audiences will at once feel kinship with Gus and his concerns for stewardship of the land we live upon and the rivers that sustain us.
For more information, to book your touring story, student matinée, or to receive a brochure call 206.770.0880 or email education@book-it.org
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Student Matinée - The River Why Wednesday, February 24, 2010 10:30 am Center House Theatre $10 per student with one free chaperone ticket per 10 students
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