Cultural Center
Proposals
Performance
Ages: 5 and up
*Sleeping
Beauty
Bring your Princes and Princesses. We will go over some
basics of acting and then have tryouts and casting for a Sleeping Beauty skit.
All week we will work on that skit and on Saturday perform it for family and
friends.
*Cinderella
Bring your Princes and Princesses. Get that girl a slipper.
We will go over some basics of acting and then have tryouts and casting
for a Cinderella skit. All week we will work on that skit and on Saturday
perform it for family and friends.
RumpleStiltskin
Bring your Miller’s Daughter and short little man.
We will go over some basics of acting and then have tryouts and casting
for a RumpleStiltskin skit. All week we will work on that skit and on Saturday
perform it for family and friends.
The
Princess and the Three Tasks
Bring your Princes and Young Knight. A Princess will only
get married if a knight will do one of three impossible tasks. But there is a
catch, none of the knights return. And we learn that bravery and love is
sometimes refusing to do something that can cause personal harm.
We will go over some basics of acting and then have tryouts and casting
for the skit. All week we will work on that skit and on Saturday perform it for
family and friends.
Rupunzel
Bring your Princes, Princesses and your little witch.
We will go over some basics of acting and then have tryouts and casting
for a Rupunzel skit. All week we will work on that skit and on Saturday perform
it for family and friends. All will be provided.
Hansel
and Gretal
So your children believe that they are abused? Bring your
abused child to do the story of Hansel and Gretal. We will go over some basics of acting and then have tryouts
and casting for a Hansel and Gretal skit. All week we will work on that skit and
on Saturday perform it for family and friends.
Peter
Pan
Min. Requirement: 10 Students
Third star on the right and straight till morning and you
come to the magical land of Neverland with Pirates, Indians and lost boys.
Wendy, Tinkerbell, Peter Pan and Captain Hook are parts in this story.
We will go over some basics of acting and then have tryouts
and casting for a Peter Pan skit. All week we will work on that skit and on
Saturday perform it for family and friends.
Other possibilities:
Puss n’ Boots, Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack
& The Beanstalk, The Bremen Town Musicians, Three Billy Goats Gruff, Little
Mermaid, The Frog Prince.
Activity
and Performance
Three
Little Pigs
“Little Pig, Little Pig, let me come in.” A wolf is
loose at your Cultural Center. We will be making foam pig mask
and Wolf hand puppets so you can act the story out at home.
The wolf hand puppets won’t be used in our skit but the pig mask will.
Then on Saturday evening we will do the show for family and
friends. If we have a lot of little
piggies then we will do several Little Pig skits with alternate endings.
Pied
Piper
The Pied Piper comes to your Cultural Center. We will be
making mice finger puppets and villager sock puppets.
Then on Saturday evening we will play out the Pied Piper
for family and friends showing them what we have been working on all week. Bring
your single socks that survived the spin cycle and they will become the
villagers of Hamlin. Materials will be provided except for the socks.
Monkey
King
The Chinese Folk story “Monkey King” cloud soars into
your Cultural Center. We will be
making foam monkey mask and work with puppets to produce the story on stage.
Then on Saturday evening we will do the show for family and friends. Materials
and puppets will be provided.
Basic Puppetry
Puppets come to your Cultural Center to sing and dance.
Will learn basic puppetry, lip-sync, and breathing techniques.
Learn
how to put life into limp inanimate objects.
First
day: Kitchen Utensils can talk.
Second
day: Socko sings opera.
Third
day: Hand and Mouth puppets have life.
Fourth
Day: Work on the show.
Then
on Saturday we will perform and show family and friends what we have been
working on. Bring in your favorite vocal CD and Kitchen Utensil (Nothing Sharp).
Tribal Mask and Trouble Dolls
Become primitive with us while we study mask making. We
will make a paper mache mask, paint it and then perform with it on Saturday
evening for family and friends. The show we will do is an interactive play of
“Trouble Doll”. The Volcano is going to come down the mountain to destroy
the village but a little girl’s doll stops the volcano. There will also be
drums and dancing. Materials will be provided.
Other possibilities:
Drums, puppet making.
Multi-Cultural
Ages: 5 and
up
The
Rough-Face Girl
The Algonquin Indians have a version of Cinderella. We will
go over some basics of acting and then have tryouts and casting for a Rough-Face
Girl skit. All week we will work on that skit and on Saturday perform it for
family and friends
The
Dragon Prince
A Chinese Beauty and the Beast where the Beast is a Dragon.
We will go over some basics of acting and then have tryouts and casting for a
Dragon Prince skit. All week we will work on that skit and on Saturday perform
it for family and friends
Jamie
O’ Rourke and the Pooka
Meet Jamie O’ Rourke, the laziest man in Ireland, who
gets a visitation from a Pooka who cleans house for him. A Pooka is a giant
shape-shifter that usually takes on the form of a giant rabbit as in the movie
“Harvey” or a dark steed. We will go over some basics of acting and then
have tryouts and casting for a Pooka skit. All week we will work on that skit
and on Saturday perform it for family and friends
Shakespeare
Ages: 5-up. Ability to read.
Romeo & Juliet
The Shakespeare play of “Romeo & Juliet” will be
the project. Young actors enrolled in the class will learn basic acting, tryout,
and perform a basic version of the play. All week we will work on that skit and
on Saturday perform it for family and friends. The Young actor will come away
with the basic plot of the play and gain greater self-esteem in performance and
play-acting. There are no actual swords or bloody deaths so parents don’t have
to be worried. The naught bits are removed and replaced with little kid love
(like holding hands, silly love notes.)
The Tempest
The Shakespeare play “The Tempest” will be the project.
Young actors enrolled in the class will learn basic acting, tryout, and perform
a basic version of the play. All week we will work on that skit and on Saturday
perform it for family and friends. The Young actor will come away with the basic
plot of the play and gain greater self-esteem in performance and play-acting.
Hamlet
The Shakespeare play of
“Hamlet” will be the project. Young actors enrolled in the class will
learn basic acting, tryout, and perform a basic version of the play. All week we
will work on that skit and on Saturday perform it for family and friends. The
Young actor will come away with the basic plot of the play and gain greater
self-esteem in performance and play-acting. There are no actual swords or bloody
deaths so parents don’t have to be worried.
Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Shakespeare play of
“Midsummer Night’s Dream” will be the project. Young actors
enrolled in the class will learn basic acting, tryout, and perform a basic
version of the play. All week we will work on that skit and on Saturday perform
it for family and friends. The Young actor will come away with the basic plot of
the play and gain greater self-esteem in performance and play-acting. The naught
bits are removed and replaced with little kid love (like holding hands, silly
love notes.)
MacBeth
The Shakespeare play of
“MacBeth” will be the project. Young actors enrolled in the class
will learn basic acting, tryout, and perform a basic version of the play. All
week we will work on that skit and on Saturday perform it for family and
friends. The Young actor will come away with the basic plot of the play and gain
greater self-esteem in performance and play-acting. There are no actual swords
or death so parents don’t have to be worried. Warning: The play will still
have the Three Weird Sisters (Witches). I do not fell it is an endorsement of
the dark occult but is showing the very diabolic nature of evil and the dangers
of listening to it.
Merchant of Venice
The Shakespeare play of
“Merchant of Venice” will be the project. Young actors enrolled in
the class will learn basic acting, tryout, and perform a basic version of the
play. All week we will work on that skit and on Saturday perform it for family
and friends. The Young actor will come away with the basic plot of the play and
gain greater self-esteem in performance and play-acting. There are no actual
swords or death so parents don’t have to be worried. Shylock the Jew is
ethnically changed into Shylock the E.T. and Shylock can still address the issue
of prejudice.
Literary-Religious
Ages: 5 and up
Note: These shows no way espouse any particular religion
or favor any version of it. The use of the King James Version is because of its
Shakespearean quality. These are apart of our literary history and will be
treated as such.
*Away
in a Manger
Min. Requirement: 8 children
From the King James Version of the Bible comes The Manger
scene done for Christmas: With Shepherds, Animals, Joseph and Mary, Angels and
Wise Men. There will also be some of our favorite Christmas Carols. All week we
will work on that skit and on Saturday perform it for family and friends.
A
Christmas Carol
The Charles Dickson’s Story of the meaning of Christmas.
Scrooge has been very mean and three spirits are going to help him see
what his is missing. There will also be some of our favorite Christmas Carols.
All week we will work on that skit and on Saturday perform it for family and
friends.
David
and Goliath
From the King James Version of the Bible comes the Story of
David and Goliath. During the Renaissance one of the prevailing images was
“The David” and the Symbol of Venice who saw itself as a David Archetype. We
will perform the story with people and puppets. All week we will work on that
skit and on Saturday perform it for family and friends. With the victory of
David over Goliath who was described as being as big as a two story building.
Noah
and the Ark
From the King James Version of the Bible comes the Story of
Noah and the Ark. Noah is referred to in the Babylonian Epics of Gilgamesh. It
is the perfect story for animal puppets to sing a song and to tell the story.
All week we will work on that skit and on Saturday perform it for family and
friends.
Other possible plays:
Nephi and the Brass Plates (From the Book of Mormon)
Tobias (From the Jewish Apocrypha)
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Joseph and his Brothers
Judas Maccabee and the Origin of Passover (From the
Apocrypha)
Jason and the Argonaughts
Greek Myths
Arachnid and the contest of tapestries
Hercules and his 12 task
The Contest of Athena and Poseidon
Poetry
Poetry Alive
A daylong workshop
Putting life and energy into poetry. Fanciful Poetry can be
boring when it is eulogized read stuffy and proper. But poetry can be theatrical
and fun. With story and acting on such poems as Xanadu,
The
Jabberwocky, and the prolithic writings of Dr. Suess. We will also write our own
fun poetry and act it out. Giving the poetry life and exuberance that only the
living can give it.
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