This week marks the end of both of our 2011 spring residencies. New Brunswick High goes into exam mode next week, so we went easy on them, focusing on the prologue to Henry V. It's well known as the speech beginning with "O for a muse of fire...". We strayed away from A Midsummer Night's Dream with a purpose. If these students learn nothing else, I hope they
come to understand the healing magic that live theatre can do in the world, and that all it takes to make theatre happen... all it has ever taken... is a group of people coming together and agreeing to the play. We are all conjurers. We are all, at times, an eager audience. We are all capable of so much more than we know.
On that strangely serious note, it is with pleasure that I announce the culmination of this year's after-school program in Perth Amboy.
The Perth Amboy Department of Recreation and the New Brunswick Theater Festival present:
The Story of Us
A theatrical event imagined, written and performed by local students
Thursday, June 16th @ 7pm
We have two more rehearsals. Oh boy.
Cheers,
Jen
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