| Field Trips | Gr7 Civic Arts Plaza Theater Performance |
Gr8 Civic Arts Plaza Theater Performance |
Gr7 Will Geer Theater Performance |
for all grade 8 students
 Above, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, where students will see four vignettes, including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (right). |
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Colina's 8th graders are undertaking a class-wide field trip on Friday, Oct. 5, 2007, to the Civic Arts Plaza Theatre for the Chamber Repertory Theatre. "ENCORE" presentation. All 8th grade students who return a signed permission slip with their money by TBA, will be eligible to attend. A $14.00 per student ticket fee is being requested to cover the cost of tickets.
Students will be assigned to walk to the plaza by their homeroom classes. Students will depart from Colina at approx.9:45 a.m. We expect to reach the Plaza at 10:10 a.m.; the play will begin at 10:30 a.m. Students will return to Colina following the play at approximately 12:35 p.m., and will go straight to lunch on their return. Students who do not attend this field trip will be assigned to one classroom for periods 2, 3 and 4.
Chamber Repertory Theatre is Boston's nationally acclaimed professional touring company. They opened their Fall 1998 season with four very special productions for students of literature, drama and language arts. These unique productions are fully staged with sets, constumes, lighting and sound effects, performed by a cast of versatile and professional actors.
We will see "ENCORE!!" The Tell Tale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving; The Monkey's Paw, by W.W. Jacobs; The Necklace, by Guy de Maupassant; and The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, by Mark Twain. have planned this field trip to encourage student appreciation of the fine arts and hope this will be an outstanding experience for our students.
We anticipate a great day that will help this 8th grade class enjoy a successful team effort at learning and will allow for student/staff interaction in a more informal circumstance.
Chamber Repertory Theatre utilizes a dramatic form that relies on the narrator's point of view. In one way or another. the narrator becomes involved in the story bcing told. One of the artistic features of CT is that the narration can occur in inventive and creative ways. Sometimes the narrator becomes the principal character; sometimes the narration is shared between characters; sometimes the narrator leaves the action and becomes a non-panicipant. Each variation cnhances the artistic interpretations of the stories being told. Chamber Repertory Theatre's format poses other unique production challenges for theatre as well. It uses limited space for many settings, few actors for many roles, one "viewing time" for many stories and challenges the audience to shift attitude from serious to frivolous.