Houlton Star Bright Children’s Theatre to present ‘Tall Tales from Taletown’

    HOULTON — The Houlton Star Bright Children’s Theatre will present a readers theater production on Friday, March 4, and Saturday, March 5, at the Houlton Southside School Auditorium in Houlton.
    The production will be “Tall Tales from Taletown” and will feature presentations of five short stories based on classic tall tales from American folk literature including Paul Bunyan, The Legend of Lightning Larry, Peddler Polly and the Story Stealer, The Boy Who Wanted the Willies, and The Tale of Slappy Hooper.
    The cast is made up of 28 local school children ranging in age from first to sixth grade. Each of the stories will be presented in a readers’ theater format, a style of theater in which the children read directly from scripts, conveying the story in an entertaining and dramatic way by using voice modulations and gestures rather than elaborate sets and props.
    Readers’ theater enables the cast to suggest images in the imaginations of the audience that could never be presented realistically on stage, making it the perfect format for the “larger than life” characters that feature in these tall tales.
    The production is being co-directed by Houlton Star Bright Children’s Theatre board members Pamela Chernesky, Molly Cowan, Susan McMann, and Frank Sullivan.
    There will be two performances of “Tall Tales from Taletown”: Friday, March 4 at 6 p.m. and Saturday March 5 at 2 p.m. Tickets will be sold at the door. Ticket prices are $5 for adults, $3 for students, $4 for seniors and $15.00 for a family of four or more.
    The Houlton Star Bright Children’s Theatre, founded in 1969 by students at Ricker College, is one of the oldest community children’s theatres in the country and offers live theater FOR and BY children to the Greater Houlton area. The Theatre is a non-profit organization supported by volunteer help and community donations.
    For more information contact, Frank Sullivan at 538-9416 or email frank@rainbarrow.net.