Traveling throughout the State of Florida and to venues as far away as Canada or the banks of the Mississippi, ETC has been a proud ambassador of Ruth Eckerd Hall and The Marcia P. Hoffman Performing Arts Institute and is the resident professional theater of Ruth Eckerd Hall’s 182 seat Murray Studio Theater.
Aesop's Fables
Adapted by Julia Flood
Grades Pre-K –3 and family audiences
For centuries, the wit and wisdom of AESOP’S FABLES have been passed down from one generation to the next. ETC continues its commitment to introduce the classics to young audiences, presenting these well-loved animal tales in interactive, story-theater style. Through lively storytelling and with the help of the audience, ETC actors use physical comedy with minimal props and costumes to bring to life familiar favorites like The Lion and the Mouse, The Tortoise and the Hare and The Fox and the Grapes along with tales not so familiar. Fun and chock full of imagination, AESOP’S FABLES is a perfect introduction to some of the world’s most cherished stories and to the magic of live theatre!
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A Thousand Cranes By Kathryn Schultz Miller
There is a legend that says that any person who folds a thousand paper cranes will be granted a wish.
Sadako Sasaki was two years old. Her mother held her in her arms and sang a lullaby. In the house, her grandmother was making tea. Suddenly, a flash of light cut across the sky.
Ten years later, in 1955, when Sadako was a happy 12 year old school girl in Hiroshima, the radiation sickness came. Sadako began to fold cranes, wishing to be well again, wishing that an atom bomb like the one that took her grandmother would never be dropped again.
Before her death, Sadako folded six hundred and forty-four cranes. Her friends and classmates folded three hundred fifty-six more to make one thousand. Three years later, in Hiroshima Peace Park, they unveiled a statue of Sadako holding a golden crane in her outstretched arms with this inscription: “This is our cry. This is our prayer. Peace in the world.” Every year since then, children have sent thousands of cranes to be placed at the foot of her monument.
This play tells the true story of Sadako and of how her spirit of hope and strength continues to inspire young people the world over to work for peace.
Produced by special arrangement with DRAMATIC PUBLISHING, Woodstock, Illinois.
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The Hundred Dresses
From the Newbery Honor Book by Eleanor Estes
Adapted by Bill Williams
For grades 2-6 and family audiences
On Tour September 2010 - January 2011
Curriculum Connections: Language Arts,
Theater Arts,
Health
Wanda Petronski, the new girl in room 13, wears the same faded blue dress to school every day, but insists that she has a hundred bright, shiny new ones at home. As Wanda’s story unfolds, her classmates learn the secret of the hundred dresses and with it, a lesson in tolerance, in taking responsibility and in living with the consequences of our actions.
An endearing tale, based on the Newbery Honor Book by Eleanor Estes, THE HUNDRED DRESSES focuses on the difficult issue of bullying and how mistreating someone because he or she is different from oneself brings as much harm to the bully as to the victim.
