Posted by Katie Marie on April 25, 2012
School Shows
We are so excited! We are geeking out! We are singing about cinnamon toast rolls! We are performing at LEARN Campbell Elementary on Friday!!!
This is our first of two residencies at LEARN Campbell this year, and it was what we call a single class residency, meaning that we taught one group of students every week for 6 weeks at the school (as opposed to two or three groups of students). This is rare for us, but even MORE rare is that this single class was comprised of students from three different classrooms. Woah! Because we only taught one group of students, we have the absolute pleasure of having stories from every single student in the group adapted for their show on Friday! This is fun and wonderful for us, but I’m going to go ahead and guess that it’s going to be a SUPERTREAT for the students.
Some of their stories have been turned into songs (with dancing!):
And some have been turned into plays (with acting!):
We hope the students love watching their stories come to life as much as we loved reading and adapting them! YAY FRIDAY!!
Posted by Brennan on April 19, 2012
School Shows
It’s (not) important (at all) to note that, in order to help me start this blog entry, I just watched the “Jaws 4” trailer. Dudes. This time, it’s personal.
(Is it personal because that’s the one with like a baby shark or something at the end? PS—Spoiler alert. Except probably not, because I get them all confused. In one there’s this shark family thing, and in one there’s like this robot shark. Also, close that beach.)
I’m stalling a bit, because I’m a little embarrassed to be writing this a few days late. But not SO embarrassed that I won’t write it at all! Hurray for getting over ourselves!
This past Monday morning, the Dawes School Show cast marched into Dawes Elementary, (under our arms: piles of cardboard boats, tutus, George Washington wigs made of toilet paper rolls, and giant tv-box-sized Red Lobster tables complete with pop-up buckets of crab, lemon butter sauce, and ice cream…you know, the uusch), and as has been widely declared and agreed-upon, a grand time was had by all. What a wonderful morning….
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Posted by Katie Marie on April 19, 2012
School Shows
Barrel of Monkeys is ramping up our first of two school shows at LEARN Campbell and it’s already SO WONDERFUL! The stories are so character-driven.. The dialogue feels so real, and in the words of director, Molly, the writing is just downright sophisticated. It’s really just lovely. We’re having fun. Thank you, students of LEARN Campbell!
I’m not much of a photographer, and we’ve been inspired by these stories to do some pretty strange-looking things, and when you combine those two facts together, you get a fun game called “Guess what’s happening at LEARN rehearsal!!”
What do you think is happening in this picture? Is it:
A) Sarah is singing from the rooftops and Laura is going to sneak up on her and do some crazy karate moves?
B) Donnell and Brandon are holding Sarah captive in a tree, and Laura the cat is going to try to rescue her?
C) Sarah is behaving terribly and playing and jumping on the couch and Laura is afraid she’s going to fall?
Answer after the break!
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Posted by Brennan on April 13, 2012
School Shows
Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the Monkey blog? Sure, whatever. That’s fine.
Everybody, sometimes the Universe knows exactly what it’s doing, and it plays little tricks on you for its own amusement. Also, to impress the other, cute Universes….
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Posted by Brennan on April 9, 2012
School Shows
I often wake up at 4:30 in the morning, (weirdly, it’s very often 4:33), with my eyes calmly opening up together on one very clear and very specific thought. As though my brain figured out something while I was sleeping, and sorry, no, it can’t wait until morning, and my brain really has to tell me right now, before it goes back to dreaming about a hamster race or whatever, and forgets everything that it just so delicately perceived….
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