Traveling Players Ensemble Stops In McLean

From Traveling Players: After weeks of learning classical theatre, practicing movement and vocalizing, and fending off gnats and mosquitoes, Traveling Players' youth ensembles will present a festival of two classical plays on August 11, 2017.

The festival is the final stop on a tour by each ensemble, and features a pair of plays exhibiting the best of classical theatre: Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, and the original mythical play Atum's Eye: the Dawn of Time by Judy White.

For directions to Madeira, please go to http://www.madeira.org/about-madeira/contact-us/.
The festival will begin with Atum's Eye at 5:00pm, followed at 7:00pm by The Comedy of Errors. Guests are invited to bring a picnic dinner (to eat between 6 and 7pm).
Guests may want to bring picnic items, lawn chairs, insect spray, and flash lights. Camping chairs will be available for rent.

In the event of rain, the performances will be held in Madeira's Chapel Auditorium.
The outdoor festival is the final stop on a performance tour by each ensemble.
In Shakespeare’s gleefully ridiculous Comedy of Errors, two pairs of identical twins dodge mistaken identities, irate wives, sinister moneylenders, dangerous Dukes, mysterious nuns, and the forces of the law in a ludicrous four-way identity crisis.

In Atum's Eye, adapted from an Egyptian creation myth by Judy White, a father's search for his missing children leads to a quest across time and space, through ancient tombs and the underworld...and onto the set of a very unusual gameshow.

Traveling Players Ensemble's mission is to bring great theatre into the great outdoors. To do this, they offer summer camps for elementary, middle and high school students, where they learn to practice their craft with the barest of props, directed by experienced theatre professionals. They also spend most of their time outdoors, even camping out once a week.

The combination of expert training and outdoor settings creates an experience for the campers that is unique in the world of theatre programs.

Traveling Players is in residence at The Madeira School in McLean, VA, where they will host a second festival on Friday, August 18.

Founded in 2003, Traveling Players has been invited to perform at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage, Colonial Williamsburg, Shenandoah National Park, Reston's Multicultural Festival, and the International Children's Festival at Wolf Trap. Traveling Players Ensemble was selected as one of 25 model summer arts programs by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
Traveling Players is supported in part by the Art Council of Fairfax County, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

For more information, please visit www.travelingplayers.org or call 703-987-1712.

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