ACTORS PERFORM BILINGUAL VERSION OF CLASSIC TALE IN SCHOOLS TOUR.Byline: Patricia Farrell Aidem Daily News Staff Writer By the time the curtain falls today on ``The Boy Who Cried Lobo,'' more than 15,000 Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. youngsters will have seen the bilingual version of the classic fairy tale fairy tale Simple narrative typically of folk origin dealing with supernatural beings. Fairy tales may be written or told for the amusement of children or may have a more sophisticated narrative containing supernatural or obviously improbable events, scenes, and personages of a boy's encounter with a wolf, first imagined, and then quite real. The Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, Repertory Theatre repertory theatre Production of several different plays in a single season by a resident acting company. The plays chosen may be classic works by famous dramatists or new works by emerging playwrights, and the companies that perform them often serve as a training ground for will end its tour with 9 and 10 a.m. performances at Mountain View Elementary School Mountain View Elementary School may refer to:
``Lobo'' is a production of the Santa Clarita Repertory Theatre's educational outreach program. ``The whole purpose of the outreach is to keep theater alive in the elementary schools,'' said David Ian David Ian Ian[1] (born Chadwell Heath, Greater London in 1961), is a former actor, who turned theatre producer in 1991 to become the most powerful man in UK theatre in 2005 according to The Stage [2]. Stears, producing artistic director for the repertory. ``With that comes listening to story without a joystick in their hands, or without special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. . It's that sense of oral tradition and storytelling - to create interest in literature by pulling stuff from old fairy tales This is a list of fairy tales, the dates of their earliest known printed version, the author and, if known, the collection of tales in which it was published. It should be noted, however, that not all stories listed below would be categorized as fairy tales by a strict definition .'' ``Lobo'' is a commissioned work by children's author and illustrator Peter Chevako. The play includes regular company members Ezra Wiesz, Elizabeth Rainey, Sabrina Hill and Christopher Cook. ``It's a story of a young boy learning to become trustworthy and responsible,'' Stears said. The repertory opted for the bilingual version of ``The Boy Who Cried Wolf,'' as part of its education outreach. ``When some of the school heard it was bilingual play, they said but we don't have kids who speak Spanish,'' Stears said. ``That not the purpose of it. The purpose of it is that without a big heavy hammer over the head, we want to acknowledge that there are things that divide us and things that are universal. ``We differ in countless ways - what color our skin is, our language, our religion, how fat or thin you are. Then there are things that bring us together, that are common to all of us like being honest, those moral fiber things that bring us together. Regardless of what religion you are, not crying wolf is a good thing,'' he said. The repertory chose to focus on those values that bring together members of a community. And while the actors alternate between English and Spanish lines, the message is lost on no one because of the actors' expressions. ``Now language is not the barrier between us,'' Stears said. The reaction, he said, has been tremendous. The cast plays a sillier version to the younger school children, a more cocky version ``with attitude'' to the upper grades. ``The response has been fantastic,'' Stears said. ``It appeals across the board.'' CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: (Color) Performers enact ``The Boy Who Cried Lobo'' at Leona Cox Elementary School on Wednesday. Shaun Dyer/Special to the Daily News |
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