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Elephant and Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!”  

Mo Williams and Debora Wicks La Puma 

Get ready for a musical experience, ripped from the pages of Mo Willems’ beloved, award-winning, best-selling children’s books, that will leave audiences doing the “Flippy Floppy Floory” dance all night long! In Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!”, Gerald and Piggie take to the stage in a rollicking adventure that is perfect for young audiences.

An elephant named Gerald and a pig named Piggie are best, best, “bestus” (a word Gerald and Piggie made up that means “very best”) friends, but Gerald worries that something could go wrong that would end their friendship. Piggie is not worried at all. She’s even happier and more excited than usual. That’s because she and Gerald are invited to a party hosted by the Squirrelles, three singing squirrels who love to have a good time. And so begins a day when anything is possible.

Filled with beloved characters and lively songs, Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!” is a perfect way to introduce young people to theatre. Featuring five actors and a small band, the design needs are limited, making this an excellent educational theatre opportunity.  Made possible in part by the Fred Register Endowment for Children’s Theatre at Young Harris College.

The Moors

Contains sexual themes and potential simulated violence, Jen Silverman

Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. The arrival of a hapless governess and a moor-hen set all three on a strange and dangerous path. The Moors is a dark comedy about love, desperation, and visibility, a satirical take on the Brontë sisters’ gothic musings. It tells the story of a governess who arrives at a remote manor after exchanging correspondence with a mysterious man, but finds no one there except his two sisters, a maid, and a dog. The play explores themes of love, identity, power, and toxic relationships, and some say it reveals important social and sexual politics for women in the United States.

• Pay what you can Preview on Nov. 13, Dobbs Theatre in the Goolsby Center.  Minimum donation of $1
• Performances on Nov. 14 & 15 at 7 p.m. with a 2 p.m. matinee on Nov. 16. Dobbs Theatre in the Goolsby Center.

 This is our Youth

Contains mature themes, explicit language, and drug use

Kenneth Lonergan.  In 1982, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the wealthy, articulate, pot-smoking teenagers who were small children in the ’60s have emerged as young adults in a country that has just resoundingly rejected everything they were brought up to believe in. The very last wave of New York City’s ’60s-style Liberalism has come of age—and there’s nowhere left to go. In meticulous, hilarious, and agonizing detail, THIS IS OUR YOUTH follows forty-eight hours of three very lost young souls in the big city at the dawn of the Reagan Era: Warren Straub, a dejected nineteen-year-old who steals fifteen thousand dollars from his abusive lingerie-tycoon father; Dennis Ziegler, the charismatic domineering drug-dealing friend who helps him put the money to good use; and Jessica Goldman, the anxiously insightful young woman Warren yearns for. Funny, painful, and compassionate, THIS IS OUR YOUTH is a living snapshot of the moment between adolescence and adulthood when many young people first go out into the world on their own, armed only with the ideas and techniques they developed as teenagers—ideas and techniques far more sophisticated than their parents ever realize, and far less effectual than they themselves can possibly imagine.

• Pay what you can Preview on Feb. 26, Dobbs Theatre in the Goolsby Center. Minimum donation of $1
• Performances on Feb. 27 & 28 at 7 p.m. with a 2 p.m. matinee on March 1. Dobbs Theatre in the Goolsby Center.

The Fantasticks

Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt – The Fantasticks is a funny and romantic musical about a boy, a girl, and their two fathers who try to keep them apart. The narrator, El Gallo, asks the audience to use their imagination and follow him into a world of moonlight and magic. The boy and the girl fall in love, grow apart and finally find their way back to each other after realizing the truth in El Gallo’s words that, “without a hurt, the heart is hollow.”

• Pay what you can Preview on April 23, Dobbs Theatre in the Goolsby Center. Minimum donation of $1
• Performances on April 24, 25, & 26 at 7 p.m. with a 2 p.m. matinee on April 26. Dobbs Theatre in the Goolsby Center.