Traveling Players Present Trio Of Plays At Madeira School

From Traveling Players: From After weeks of learning classical theatre, practicing movement and vocalizing, and roasting s'mores over the fire, Traveling Players' youth ensembles will present a festival of three plays on August 3, 2018.

For directions to Madeira, please go to http://www.madeira.org/about-madeira/contact-us/.

The schedule for the full day is:

4:30 - 6:15 Ariadne's Thread & The Monkey King
6:15 - 7:00 Break for Dinner (picnicking is welcome)
7:00 - 9:30 Merry Wives of Windsor

The performances will be held in Madeira's Chapel Auditorium.

Traveling Players' youngest performers will present playwright Judith Walsh White's adaptations of Ariadne's Thread and The Monkey King, a pair of myths from Greece and China featuring gods, goddesses, monsters, heroes, long journeys, magical transformations, and outrageous adventures.

The advanced, audition-only Traveling Troupe will end their professional-level tour with the closing night performance of The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare's gleefully mischievous comedy. A raucous romp with the no-good knight Falstaff turns the battle of the sexes into an escalating war of practical jokes, complete with clever wives, jealous husbands, and a basket of very dirty laundry.
Want to perform in the show? You can! The Traveling Troupe needs a few VIP audience members to join them on stage. Two adults and four children (ages 6-12) will get the chance to perform small roles. Get a costume and a line! VIPs must be available at 3:30 to run through their part. To be a VIP, email info@travelingplayers.org.

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 third festival on Friday, August 10: Traveling Players' Middle and High School actors will perform three raucous comedies: Moliere's Bourgeois Gentleman, Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, and a Commedia dell'Arte adaptation of Sleeping Beauty.

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.

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