Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 08:08:16 -0500
From: Pyt Ensemble
Subject: Pittsboro Youth Theater performances
Saturday and Sunday, December 3rd and 4th, there will be 2 performances of Briar Rose (A Tale of Sleeping Beauty) and 3 performance of Jungalbook by Pittsboro Youth Theater
20 kids from around Pittsboro have been practicing their roles for months. 5th-7th graders will perform Jungalbook live on stage; this play is full of action and drama just like the recently released motion picture! The younger cast, in grades 2-5, will perform a version of Sleeping Beauty including a handsome prince and a 2 headed troll.
Briar Rose will be performed at The Pittsboro Community House at 65 Thompson St in downtown Pittsboro. Performance times are: Saturday, 12/3 at 2 and 6pm
Jungalbook will be performed at The Pittsboro Kiwanis club at 309 Credle St also in downtown Pittsboro.
Performance times are:
Saturday, 12/3 at 4:00pm
Sunday, 12/4 at 2 and 6pm
Jungalbook
This dramatization places the jungle of India on a children’s playground. The dialogue and action refer to the jungle, but the play draws color and style from a child’s intense world of playfulness, loyalty, adventure and betrayal. Mowgli, the human child, grows up in the jungle, raised by wolves under the guidance of Baloo the bear. The tiger, Sherakhan, killed his parents and wants the boy’s flesh, but Bagheera, the lone panther, protects him. Mowgli grows up wild and unconcerned, believing he’s a wolf; but the tiger works long and hard to poison the wolf pack against him. With rope stolen from the human village, Mowgli meets and destroys Sherakhan; but his use of “manthing” has broken jungle law. Mowgli must choose whether to defy the law or leave the jungle forever.
Briar Rose
This clever and charming adaptation of the classic fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty is a wild, comic romp. Despite warnings from her hysterical, hyper mother, Briar Rose touches the thorns of some roses given to her by that devious thirteenth fairy. Consequently, she and the rest of the royal family fall asleep for 100 years under the evil fairy’s curse. A hilarious parade of doomed princes fail again and again in the hissing, growling briar bushes (created by children from the audience) that protect the palace where the royal family sleeps. All these royal efforts are futile until a prince shows up with his side-splittingly funny bodyguard, the two-headed troll.
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….pretty darned exciting! Only overwhelming Pittsboro community support will make our Center for the Arts a reality.
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