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PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
NEW PUBLICATIONS
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PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Summer/Fall 2001 |
Looking for fun travel/entertainment destinations this summer?
Check these out:
• April 20-22: L.E. McCullough
gives workshops and performances at the Mississippi
River Celtic Fest
in St. Louis
featuring Joe Burke, Liz Carroll, Kieran Kane, Michael Cooney, Anne Conroy
and many more!
• July 29-Aug. 3: L.E. McCullough gives workshops
and performances during Northern Week at Jay Ungar
and Molly
Mason's renowned Ashokan
Music & Dance Camp in the scenic Catskill Mountains of New
York featuring
New England contras, squares, Québecois step & social dance,
English and Scandinavian
dances, fiddle,
hardingfele, guitar, piano, singing, calling, band classes . . . and
L.E.
McCullough on
Irish whistle,
flute, bones, bodhran, harmonica, etc.
• Aug. 4-5: For still more personal music
instruction, visit L.E. McCullough at the
Dublin
Irish Fest in
Dublin, Ohio
— just west of Columbus! Besides workshops and performances, he’ll be hanging
around
the booth
of tinwhistle maker Michael
Burke demonstrating some of the finest tinwhistles on the market.
. .
stop by and
toot!
• Sept. 7-8: L.E. McCullough
will appear at "The Art of Literacy"
National Conference in Johnson
City, Tennessee,
home of the National Story Telling Festival; this is a major creativity
seminar based
on integrating
arts in education, including sessions "The Music-Math Connection"
,"Encouraging Family
Literacy through
Collecting Family Stories", "Drama Games That Build Cooperation Skills"
and more.
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This fall, L.E. McCullough and Lisa Bansavage will premiere the
first performances of Pages
of History — a series of stage plays
on heroes and heroines that have changed history. This
is enter-
taining educational programming especially geared for
schools
and community groups; workshops on creating and presenting
Historical Theatre are also offered. For more details
contact:
SavageMediaNY@aol.com
¨¨¨Click here for offerings and schedules!
(left: Lisa Bansavageas modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan in "Isadora, American Legend" by Jerry James and Ann Beigel.)
Beginning May 5,
Historic
Philadelphia, Inc.'s Town Crier Summer Theatre performs two new
plays by L.E. McCullough — Ben Franklin, Reluctant
Revolutionary and Franklin in Our Daily Life.
Join this merry troupe of Colonial actors as they traverse
the streets of downtown Philly portraying everyday
people you might have met in the City of Brotherly Love
if you'd visited in the 1770s and '80s. Contact
Historic Philadelphia,
Inc. for daily performance schedules!
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* L.E. McCullough has 5 new books from Smith & Kraus appearing in a bookstore near you.
• NOW
I GET IT! 12 Ten-Minute Classroom Drama Skits for Elementary Science,
Math, Language & Social Studies — Vol. 1: Grades K-3 — Vol 2:
Grades 4-6
Increasing numbers
of teachers are discovering the benefits of using drama in the classroom
to motivate students
and enhance existing curriculum. The Now I Get It!
books
are a collection of short plays based on actual grade-specific subject
matter taught in elementary classrooms. Used as focused learning exercises,
each play is expressly designed to boost comprehension and creativity.
Each volume of Now I Get It! covers lessons in Grammar, Writing,
Vocabulary, Math, Geometry, Life Science, Physical Science, Earth Science,
Geography, Citizenship, History and Current Events.
• Also just published is L.E. McCullough’s
111
One-Minute Monologues for Teens, Vol. 2.
This is a companion volume to Vol.
1 by noted educator/dramatist Janet Millstein, and it’s a great
followup to L.E.’s previous award-winning
monologue collection Ice
Babies in Oz.
• And don't miss Plays
of Ancient Israel: Legends from the Bible and Jewish Folklore
and
Plays
of Israel Reborn: Legends of the Diaspora and Israel’s Modern Rebirth,
both by
L.E. McCullough and both available
from Smith & Kraus.
The land of Israel has long been a fertile spawning ground
for some of the greatest stories ever told — now dramatized for your stage!
Plays
of Ancient Israel presents 12 exciting one-acts from the Bible and
the treasure trove of Jewish folklore: Noah’s Ark, Jonah and the
Whale, Daniel in the Lion’s Den, King David’s Harp, Ruth
and Naomi, Samson and Delilah, the Wisdom of Solomon,
tales from the Talmud, origins of Chanukah, Purim
and more. Plays of Israel Reborn presents 12 original
plays drawn from the flowering of Jewish culture during
the Diaspora and the modern rebirth of Judaism worldwide
— tales of Hasidic wit and wisdom, Midrash and Haggadah stories, legends
of the Kaballah, Sephardic and Ashkenazic folklore and more.
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- In
addition, L.E. McCullough’s Plays
of America from American Folklore for Young Actors
is one
of 24 books named to Glencoe
McGraw-Hill’s Recommended Reading List for students.
Other
books on the list include:
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Our Town by Thornton Wilder
• Mythology by Edith Hamilton
• A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
• Nightfall by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg
Familiar with any of those books and authors?
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• To make your play selection easier, check out this page
of synopses
for L.E. McCullough’s
youth
and educational plays:
• And take a look at his powerful social-issue
plays as well.
If you’re
interested in producing one or more, give a shout!
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