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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 (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 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 206.770.0880 or education@book-it.org
RED RANGER CAME CALLING, A GUARANTEED TRUE CHRISTMAS STORY
by Berkeley Breathed Adapted and directed by Myra Platt, music by Myra Platt and Edd Key SHOWING: Dec 1, 8, 2010 • Eve Alvord Theatre at Seattle Children’s Theatre GRADES: K-6
Book-It’s musical holiday favorite, Red Ranger Came Calling, is based on the true story of the author’s father who, at age nine, insisted on be addressed as the Red Ranger of Mars. Christmas 1939, the Red Ranger was sent to Vashon Island to spend the holiday with Aunt Vy, where his encounter with a man thought to be Santa himself left an indelible mark on the landscape still visible today!
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
by Charles Dickens Adaptor/Director TBD SHOWING: Feb 15, 16, Mar 1, 2011 • Center House Theatre GRADES: 7-12
A terrifying graveyard encounter with an escaped convict; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of an unknown benefactor—this series of events changes the orphaned Pip’s life forever, and he eagerly flees his humble origins in favor of a new life as a gentleman in London. Dickens’ haunting late novel depicts Pip’s education and development through adversity as he discovers that having “expectations” is a two-edged sword.
PRAIRIE NOCTURNE
by Ivan Doig Adapted by Elena Hartwell, Director TBD SHOWING: Mar 23, 2011 • 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. Doig’s rich narrative twists through the challenges of racism on the prairie, winds its way back into its characters’ pasts and ahead into their shared futures in New York during the Harlem Renaissance.
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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