Hi Friends,
I certainly hope that you had a great month. I cannot believe that a month has already gone by since I last wrote you! Where does the time go?
I am really having a wonderful time sitting in on the Wednesday Troupe! They all seem so happy to be creating their show, Charlotte’s Web and they are doing really well learning their roles. Each Troupe Member has their own personality and excitement to bring into their roles for the show.
When I watch the Wednesday Troupe, everyone seems so very happy to be doing this play. I noticed how everyone enjoys making their puppets move to the music with Sher and her special movements. You can just see how very excited the students are creating this wonderful show because a few students asked when the show was going to take place. They are ready now with so much enthusiasm!
When the students went to their Breakout Rooms everyone wanted to talk all at once about how they wanted their Charlotte’s Web character puppets to look. I was watching one student. He wanted to talk for a while describing his puppet.He had such happiness in his eyes. I was beyond moved feeling goosebumps---it was very heartwarming.
I sat in on another Wednesday troupe class. It’s great watching the younger students really get into their character roles. They moved in response to some passages in the book to experience the different seasons during the Charlotte’s Web story. Just picture it, my dear friends, Laura reads a passage from the book, and there were so many beautiful movements. Hands up in the air swaying every which way for the wind, fingers moving for the rain and then they made movements for snow.
The Thursday Troupe show, Daydreaming is shaping up to be such an amazing and fun fun show!! Everyone is having a great time, myself included, working with puppets - designing them and making them their own. I personally love love this show so much. There’s something about it that makes my heart happy!
I know that this is turning out to be one of my most favorite shows thus far! I can see how everyone loves coming up with their own puppets and what they want them to look like. Each week, we do a practice puppet before we make our show puppet. There have been paper bag, sock, and stick puppets and wow, friends, this rocks! So, many cool and awesome puppets have been developed---famous singer, rock star, zebra, peacock, hero, Prince of the Brook, Director, and more.
I especially appreciate how we came up with our own puppets, some have one character for a puppet while others have two. It’s going to be very interesting, to me, to see how this is all going to develop into our show.
Our show puppets are becoming very real to us. It is very neat for me to see how many of us can come up with so many different ideas for our show puppets. We just had a class and there were so many engaged faces when we talked about our puppets.
I hope that my writing helps you to feel like you’re there watching our classes as we develop our spring shows. I imagine that all of the students never want theater to end.
Please write me anytime if you have any questions about Theatre Adventure, I am always available to you!!
I hope that everyone has a wonderful month! Stay healthy!
Melody Squires
Theatre Adventure Student, Board Member, Summer Painting Teacher
