Playmakers Blog
Posted by Heidi on November 3, 2008
Friendly Reminder: there’s no “That’s Weird, Grandma” tonight.
If you head to the theater, you’ll be treated to the last performance of Theater Oobleck’s election play. Which I hear good things about, but I’m pretty sure is not written by children.
We’re off next week too, and the week after. But we’ll be back well-rested and ready for the holiday season on November 24th!
Posted by Heidi on October 31, 2008
In the immortal words of Rachel, Barrel of Monkeys is tired.
So we’re taking a couple of weeks off from “That’s Weird, Grandma”. There will be no performances November 3, 10, 17th. Yes, that’s right: Your next chance to see the show is November 24th.
This is the first time we’ve taken Mondays off since April, and as you can imagine we’re all looking forward to a little rest after the summer, Fancy Schmancy, and all the rest.
In honor of Halloween, please enjoy the following story and accompanying illustration by Jose R., who was in the 4th grade at Columbia Explorers academy when he wrote it in 2004.
Posted by Heidi on October 28, 2008
Thank you again to everyone who participated in the “Free Night of Theater” promotion. We got some fabulous crowds as a result and hope that we’ll see many of you back again in the near future.
More than 120 people were introduced to “That’s Weird, Grandma” because of this nation-wide promotion and we hope that those of you who were able to attend the reception last night got a chance to ask the actors/staff any of your burning questions about the show. If not, remember you can always contact us for more information!
We look forward to participating again next year.
Posted by Rachel on October 26, 2008
Remember all that zany Cleveland School goodness I told you about? Here’s the Cleveland cast getting their first taste of it . . .
All 70 journals worth.
Posted by Rachel on October 21, 2008
The Cleveland Team gathered for a marathon journal reading on Sunday night at Erick’s house. He made us some fish curry soup of his own invention, and it sustained us for the five hours it took to read the brilliant writing of 70 students. We read everything our students write, and it is a pleasure, but given our teachers’ busy schedules, finding a time when everyone can gather to read so many journals is a challenge. We have to do it all at one go
For the Cleveland residency, we had two volunteer teachers, Katie and Lupe, who have been indispensible. They used their Spanish speaking skills to help those of us who studied French in high school communicate. They volunteered their time and energy to meet for breakfast before each teaching day, to teach for six mornings when they could have been at other jobs, and most recently, to read and sign all our students’ journals. The children love them—I know because they wrote about it in their journals—and we love them too.
Here’s the intrepid Cleveland Team before our reading meeting:
See the After picture post-jump . . .