SCHOOL TOURS & FAMILY THEATER
Booking Now: School Tours & Family Theater
Our shows bring literature to life!
- School Tours (weekdays)
- Family Theater (weekday nights and weekend days/eves)
Two Program Options:
- Storytellers Theater
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- Targeted to TK-grade 5, story-reading comes to life through improv, commedia and interactivity
- Literary Theater
- Scripted Performances with a post-show Q&A – based upon literary classics
Our shows and curriculum allow for SEL & ELA integration (Social & Emotional learning, Language Arts & Social Studies integration).
Share your curricular goals and preferences in your BOOKING INQUIRY.
STORYTELLERS THEATER
Email Education@placerrep.org
Storytellers Theater includes:
- The Interactive SHOW
- An interactive lesson plan
- Experiential learning and performing opportunities
- participate from your seats, and volunteer to perform onstage
- A Study Guide.
Designed for 10-100 students. Runtime: 45-60 min.
Ready-to-go shows ($375+):
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Gingerbread Boy
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Pinocchio
Custom Stories:
For a little bit more (starting at $500) — you choose the story or book, or have us recommend one and we create a custom experience. (price is based upon complexity of deliverables)
- Select your age-appropriate book:
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- Elementary most popular: Storybooks, Fairy tales, Folktales, Fables, Legends & Myths & Multicultural Stories
- Middle, High School & College: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson and similar.
Storytellers Theater curriculum and performances are adapted to the audience (grade/age, competency level)
FIND OUT MORE: Email Education@placerrep.org
*Contact us if you need fee assistance
LITERARY THEATER:
Email Education@placerrep.org – 30 to 80 minutes.
Prices vary by complexity, cast size, audience size, technical requirements, length, discount eligibility, etc.
NOW AVAILABLE FOR BOOKING: Dracula, an interactive melodrama – $500
An abridged version of our hit main season show to meet scholastic time constraints. General Audiences (recommend ages 7 and up)
Prior show samples:
- Fireside Stories from Ghosts of Placer County (recommended for grades 6 and up) – (stories of local history & lore – both admirable & dark history)
- Frankenstein or the Man and the Monster – (recommended for grade 3 and up) – interactive melodrama performance (anti-bullying)
- The Mysterious Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (solo show)
- Sherlock Holmes plays
- Alice’s Adventures Underground
- Peter & Wendy & Micah & Spot
FAMILY THEATER
DID YOU KNOW? Any School Tours show may be performed as an evening or weekend Family Theater show!
- Any School Tours offering, or main season show, may be booked on weekday evenings and/or weekend days / eves for general audiences in a venue near you.
- Great as a fundraiser. You pay a modest performance fee then you sell the tickets and keep all the revenue.
CURRICULUM
- Performances, curricula and services are primarily based upon:
- the California recommended reading list
- 21st Century Education skills acquisition, experimental method as able
- the four areas of student development: social, emotional, physical and mental
- Complementing CA schools’ language arts, social science and STEM curricula
- Administration/Educator communications and curricular requests
- MFA Dramatic Arts curriculum, distilled and adapted to be age appropriate
- Placer County administration/educator survey responses
- themes, disciplines, writers and notable figures (civic leaders and scientists to artists/creatives and innovators).
- ARE YOU a PLACER COUNTY EDUCATOR or ADMINISTRATOR? Take the survey.
- Seeking your input on shows to offer, performance length and market value.
- Team:
- Board. Teresa Stirling Forsyth, Board President, and Rodger McDonald, founding board member/advisory committee, each previously operated large professional theater programs that toured to K-12 schools during the weekdays and to performing arts facilities presented to multi-generational audiences on weekends throughout California.
- Performers: BFAs, MFAs, Studium-Practicum professional growth training, professional experience as performing artists & educators. Many of our performers are also Education Facilitators for Placer Rep’s VAPA ELO programs. Extended learning opportunities, experiential education and fostering 21st Century skills development.
SENSORY-FRIENDLY PERFORMANCES
Individuals with sensory needs, including people on the autism spectrum, as well as first-time theatergoers and young children benefit from sensory-friendly performances, which include the below environmental and performance adjustments. Actor/Educators, Stage Management and PRT Staff are trained to accommodate special patron needs.
Adjustments:
- Dimmed houselights (not turned completely off)
- Light and Sound cue intensity is reduced
- Working with School Staff, a location is identified as the “Regulation Station” should students need to take a break from the event/activities/performance
- An inclusive, non-judgmental atmosphere that allows for individual needs to move, exit and return
- Trained Actor/Educators, SM and staff who will identify and assist student patrons
- Technology is permitted, as an assist to students with special communication needs
- Performance and script adaptations are made, as needed to maximize student engagement and comprehension
OTHER EDUCATION OUTREACH PROGRAMS
IN ADDITION TO SCHOOL TOURS PROGRAM
Placer Rep’s other Education Outreach programs include:
- Free tickets for students to Placer Rep public productions
- Artists in the classroom for K-12 and colleges (visiting artists or artists-in-residence).
- After-school, Spring Intersession and Summer VAPA ELO Programming for your school or group
- Custom programming designed to your specifications