Pandora's Box
Tomorrow at 10:30am at the Alley Theatre in the Neuhaus Theatre, the Young Performers Studio will present their short works. The show totals about an hour, it's free, there are refreshments, and it's guaranteed to be entertaining. We've got a show about a poetry-writing shark, a little ant who would rather listen to her aPod than work, a staging of The Jabberwocky, and an adaptation of Pandora's Box.
come see it!
Here's an excerpt from Pandora's Box (my kids, the 8-9 grade)
Mt. Olympus-
Fran: Mt. Olympus, Fran speaking, please hold. Mt. Olympus, this is Fran, hold please. Thank you for holding... yes, we're thrilled you like your fire. Well, we are awfully powerful you know. Thanks for your call.
(enter)Hermes: Does Zeus know about you-know-what yet?
Fran: Looks like you're the lucky one who gets to tell him, Hermes. Mt. Olympus...yes, yes, we know he's not going to be happy.
(offstage)Zeus: WHAT?!
Fran: He knows. I'll have to get back to you.
(entering)Zeus: What do you mean Prometheus stole fire from us and gave it to the humans?! How could he do this to me?
Hera: Oh, that old news? You are so out of the loop sometimes, Zeus.
Zeus: Fran! Call the others at once. We're having an emergency meeting.
exerpt 2; the meeting of the gods:
Aphrodite: So why the emergency meeting? Oh, is this about that whole "Prometheus stole fire and gave it to the humans thing? Didn't we punish him for that?
Zeus: Yeah, but I thought that whole cliff idea was kinda tacky.
Hera: That was my idea!
Aphrodite: That explains it.
Zeus: Fran! Bring us some clay!
Hera: oooo, are we making something?
Zeus: Yes. I thought we'd repay the humans by sending them a little surprise.
Aphrodite: Like what?
Zeus: I don't know yet
Hermes: Oh! Maybe we could make it like when we sent them the cockroaches, except put it in a box so they have to unleash their woes on themselves!
Zeus: I know! I just had a genius idea! We could make it just like when we sent them cockroaches, but put it in something they have to open, like a box! Then they unleash their woes on themselves!
(all agree)
This is followed by the making of Pandora, sending her down with the box containing Hate, Greed, Jealousy, and Despair, played by the same kids who played the Gods.
These kids wrote this thing themselves and I'm so proud of them!
come see it!
Here's an excerpt from Pandora's Box (my kids, the 8-9 grade)
Mt. Olympus-
Fran: Mt. Olympus, Fran speaking, please hold. Mt. Olympus, this is Fran, hold please. Thank you for holding... yes, we're thrilled you like your fire. Well, we are awfully powerful you know. Thanks for your call.
(enter)Hermes: Does Zeus know about you-know-what yet?
Fran: Looks like you're the lucky one who gets to tell him, Hermes. Mt. Olympus...yes, yes, we know he's not going to be happy.
(offstage)Zeus: WHAT?!
Fran: He knows. I'll have to get back to you.
(entering)Zeus: What do you mean Prometheus stole fire from us and gave it to the humans?! How could he do this to me?
Hera: Oh, that old news? You are so out of the loop sometimes, Zeus.
Zeus: Fran! Call the others at once. We're having an emergency meeting.
exerpt 2; the meeting of the gods:
Aphrodite: So why the emergency meeting? Oh, is this about that whole "Prometheus stole fire and gave it to the humans thing? Didn't we punish him for that?
Zeus: Yeah, but I thought that whole cliff idea was kinda tacky.
Hera: That was my idea!
Aphrodite: That explains it.
Zeus: Fran! Bring us some clay!
Hera: oooo, are we making something?
Zeus: Yes. I thought we'd repay the humans by sending them a little surprise.
Aphrodite: Like what?
Zeus: I don't know yet
Hermes: Oh! Maybe we could make it like when we sent them the cockroaches, except put it in a box so they have to unleash their woes on themselves!
Zeus: I know! I just had a genius idea! We could make it just like when we sent them cockroaches, but put it in something they have to open, like a box! Then they unleash their woes on themselves!
(all agree)
This is followed by the making of Pandora, sending her down with the box containing Hate, Greed, Jealousy, and Despair, played by the same kids who played the Gods.
These kids wrote this thing themselves and I'm so proud of them!