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Ages: 18 months—K
This is a magical first performance experience for young children and their teachers and caregivers. The fourth wall is dissolved as young ones are encouraged to become a part of the theatre experience at will. The actors are prepared to respond to whatever ways young people may react. This new and inviting form of theatre—highly successful in Europe and now making its way to the United States—is enchanting for all ages.

Spring Tour — The Tranquil Tortoise and the Hoppity Hare
Available Dates: March 20, 21, 22 & 23

Devised by Rosemary Newcott & Lauri Stallings of gloATL
Directed by Rosemary Newcott

It’s the day of the big race! Join in the fun and excitement as the tortoise and the hare hit the starting line. The audience is invited into the center of the race track to experience the action all around them. Through dance, movement, music, and storytelling, young children will engage in this classic folk tale in wholly imaginative and new ways.

Georgia Performance Standards:

• TAESK.11 Engaging actively and appropriately as an audience member in theatre or other media experiences
• a. Participates as audience
• b. Identifies the basic elements of theatre etiquette.
• ELAKLSV1 The student uses oral and visual skills to communicate. The student
• a. Listens and speaks appropriately with peers and adults.
• b. Follows two-part oral directions.
• c. Repeats auditory sequences (letters, words, numbers, and rhythmic patterns).
• d. Recites short poems, rhymes, songs, and stories with repeated patterns.
• e. Describes people, places, things, locations, and actions.
• f. Increases vocabulary to reflect a growing range of interests and knowledge.
• g. Communicates effectively when relating experiences and retelling stories heard.
• h. Uses complete sentences when speaking.
• i. Begins to use subject-verb agreement and tense.

Alliance Theatre

Since 1968, the Alliance Theatre has served as Atlanta’s foremost theatre, working within the local, national and international communities to become one of the leading theatres in America. A national theatre with a local address, the Alliance recently received the 2007 Regional Theatre Tony Award® for outstanding achievement.

Under the leadership of the Jennings Hertz, Jr. Artistic Director Susan V. Booth, the Alliance Theatre reaches out annually to almost 200,000 patrons and members of the community. Known for its high artistic standards and national role in creating significant theatrical works, the Alliance launched three Tony Award-winning hits to Broadway: Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida and Alfred Uhry’s The Last Night of Ballyhoo. And, in a rare event for a regional theatre, it originated the national tour of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Most recently, the Alliance transferred Twyla Tharp’s Come Fly Away to Broadway for a critically acclaimed Tony Award-nominated run. The theatre has premiered 60 works including adaptations of Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky.

Now in its 42nd season, Atlanta’s nationally acclaimed Alliance Theatre continues to create the powerful experience of shared theatre for diverse people.