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Purdue NewsThe performance, presented by Purdue Convocations with support from Cinergy and PEFCU, will include the world-premiere performances of three pieces written by Greater Lafayette elementary school students.
Child's Play Touring Theatre, the only theater in the United States dedicated exclusively to performing literature written by children, met with students in Lafayette-area schools on Sept. 9, 10 and 11. In these workshops, children were taught and encouraged to write poems, stories or plays and to submit them as part of a contest. Children's creations were sent to Child's Play for evaluation, and the theater group will stage the three winners for local presentation. All the other plays presented as part of "One Monster After Another" also were written by children.
The local winners are "Football Days" by Ariel Steinweg-Woods and Erika Thomas, fifth-graders from Klondike Elementary School; "The Sea" by Alex Hagen, Janelle Washburn and Nastassja Richardson, third-graders from Edgelea Elementary School; and "The Ferocious Monster" by Ms. Butler's first-grade class at Happy Hollow School.
Child's Play Touring Theatre was founded in 1978. Since then, it has performed for more than 2.5 million children and adults. The troupe has read more than 350,000 stories and poems written by children from kindergarten through eighth grade. More than 6,500 young writers have been able to see their words transformed into live theater.
Tickets are $11 for the public, $6 for students, at campus box offices. Charge by
phone at (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW.
CONTACT: Jeff Langford, Convocations publicist, (765) 494-9712; e-mail, jilangford@convos.purdue.edu
Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; e-mail, purduenews@purdue.edu
