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You know about Beauty and the Beast, but do you know about the Trolls, Hags and Winds?
- Field trip for two or more classes attending together, appropriate for Pre-K through 5th grade.
- Weekday mornings at 10am, 10:30am or 11am your choice when booking.
- The show is 50 minutes long.
- Optional 15 minute question/answer period with the cast after the performance: no additional cost.
- A teachers study guide outlining the similarities and differences between the original Beauty and the Beast, the Disney version and the folk tale, East of the Sun, West of the Moon is provided.
- Performances can be in Brooklyn or Manhattan.
- TOUR BOOKINGS are also available (and highly suggested) at a negotiable flat rate, and we can perform in your cafetorium, theater, or library!
FIELD TRIP PERFORMANCES are offered from $10 to $13 per student - teachers can watch for free!
To save her father and mother, a young daughter makes a promise to live with a beastly bear, whose palace is secretly filled with nasty, bumbling trolls.
In the dark of night, our heroine falls in love with a sweet shy Prince. She makes a promise never to see his face in the light and to keep their love in the dark. But when the sneaky trolls convince her to sneak a peak, she breaks her promise and the trolls whisk away the newly un-enchanted Prince.
So- what’s a girl to do? Save him, of course! On her amazing journey to save her true love, she encounters Hags and Horses and gets help from the Winds. Will she save her hero from the evil trolls? Can she mend her broken promise? Will they live happily ever after? Join us and find out!
Featuring:
SZALENE ANTHONY
ERICA BECKER
JAMES ISAAC
KAITLIN NOBLE
KIRSTY SADLER
Costumes designed by
Karim Rivera
Associate Producer
Frankie Dailey
Playwright FRANKIE LITTLE HARDIN is playwright, director, actor, producer and general theatre maid-of-all work, currently residing in Newnan, Georgia. She taught theatre history, mask performance and children’s theatre at Old Dominion University (1997-2006) and created the family theatre programs ChildsPlay (Generic Theater), PlayTime Theatre (Old Dominion) and The Children’s Theatre of Hampton Roads (40th Street Stage, where she also served as Managing Director). Ms. Hardin is the author of 23 works for children’s theatre, and six plays for adult audiences, including Willow Song (2004 Edinburgh Fringe Festival). The Trashanator, commissioned by the Hampton Roads Waste Authority, which taught thousands of schoolchildren about trash and recycling; Perfect Faith (semi-finalist, 2012 Stanley Drama Award), and The Greater Love (Utah Shakespeare Festival’s New American Playwrights Project, August 2012). Ms. Hardin is a graduate of Georgia Tech, with a BS in Management, and holds a Masters in Humanities from Old Dominion University. She studied at The Goodman School and Del Arte and is a member of The Dramatist’s Guild. She and husband Lauriston have two children, Thomas and Mollie. She’s an avid reader and part-time farmer.
Director JULIA STIRLING MARTIN is a director and an acting and directing teacher. She has directed several theatre pieces in the Looking Glass Forum (earning Best Direction among other Forum Awards), NEUROfest, and the Untitled Theatre’s 24/7 Festival in addition to writing and directing the short film, Aftermath. Her staged reading of Surfacing was nominated for Outstanding Overall Production of a Reading and Outstanding Performance of a Reading at Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. As an actor, she toured internationally for years as a principal member of Ellen Stewart’s Great Jones Repertory Company, starred opposite Mike Myers in the short film, Opposites Attract, and premiered the role of Jane in the Eve Ensler’s production, Lemonade. Her current projects include her two young children. She is a graduate of the Columbia MFA theatre program where she studied under the tutelage of Andrei Serban, Anne Bogart and Robert Woodruff.
KARIM RIVERA (Costume Design) was born and raise in San Juan, Puerto Rico. BA in Theater Education from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. One year ago, Karim moved to NY to continue Graduates Studies in Costume Design and Production for the Performing Arts. She has participated in theater workshops in Brazil (Theater of the Oppressed), Ecuador (Malayerba) and Peru (Yuyachkani). Karim loves doing art getting dirty with paint!!
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Based on the Scandinavian version of "Beauty and The Beast"
A new play for children written by Frankie Little Hardin,
Directed by Julia Stirling Martin
