[Capdist-announce] NOT SO COMMON PLAYERS presents Have You Filled Your Bucket Today? Give Your kids tools to combat "BULLYING"

[Sally Burke]

THE NOT SO COMMON PLAYERS present
Have You Filled a Bucket Today?  

Opens September 19 with school performances at 9:00 AM and 11:00 AM
Additional performances, all at the Clifton Park-Halfmoon Public Library:
September 19 at 7:00 PM
September 20 and 21 at 2:00 PM
FREE Admission!

Have You Filled a Bucket Today? is a modern take on the golden rule with humor, heart, and larger-than-life characters. Based on Carol McCloud’s award-winning books, the play tells the story of Trey, a 4th grade student who learns about bucket filling from his summer camp counselor and her memorable friends.

Playwright Ann Marie Gardinier Halstead (a 1994 Shenendehowa graduate) first heard about Carol McCloud’s award-winning book Have You Filled a Bucket Today? at a meeting at her son’s school. She read it, loved it, and thought it would make great theatre. She was confident that a play would be a fun and effective way for schools and theatre companies to address the problem of bullying.

Ann Marie was thrilled when Ms. McCloud gave her permission to adapt the book for the stage. She had great fun setting the play at a summer camp and creating original characters, like Bucket Filling Fairy (BFF), a magical creature who speaks in rhyme, and Professor Smarty Pants III, a science professor who loves to talk about himself.

Have You Filled a Bucket Today? is a popular book in elementary schools across the U.S. and abroad. Many schools have adopted the bucket filling concept as their school theme, so it has been embraced by teachers, children and parents alike.

The Not So Common Players look forward to bringing this positive message with appropriate tools to young people, parents and teachers as they deal with the horrendous torment of bullying in today’s society.

Long-time Shenendehowa teacher and drama club director Dora Myers will direct, and Ann Marie Gardinier Halstead will join us as artist in residence.

For more information, contact producer Sally Burke, 518-877-5648; jburke6 at nycap.rr.com.


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