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Touring Outreach Company's 2009-2010 Season


A Forest Fable
A Tale About Our Natural Environment!
By Craig Mason

An environmental fable about a city that destroys its naturalbeauty in order to support its only industry. When the characters realize that their landscape has been devastated, the audience must play a role in the rebuilding process. Through storytelling, students imagine a future without natural resources and realize the importance of balance, preservation, and knowing that actions have consequences. Children are essential to making a difference on our planet!

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For grades K–6

Adapted by Ernie Nolan from

If You Take A Mouse To School
The Popular Children's Book Comes to Life!
Text by Laura Numeroff
Illustrated by Felicia Bond
Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers

Join the famous Mouse from the #1 national bestselling "If You Give…" series on his first day of school. Laughter and surprises are in store for students as Mouse goes on a romp through Science Day, discovering that riding the bus, reviewing homework, spelling, solving math problems, eating lunch, writing and playing in gym are all loads of fun. This might be the best day of school ever!

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For grades K–6

Freedom Riders
An Engaging Look at the Civil Rights Movement!
By Tom Quinn

This inspirational show takes students on a ride back in time to the turbulent 1960s. Join two teenage students as they become part of important historical scenes involving Teddy Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Ossie Davis, W.E.B. DuBois, Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Malcolm X and others. As they retrace the difficult and finally triumphant road to freedom, your own students will be moved by the events they will witness on this Freedom Ride. They'll begin to recognize the hope that tolerance can offer and the valuable strength of the human spirit.

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For grades 6–12

I Never Saw Another Butterfly
A Touching Story of Perseverance
By Celeste Raspanti

Terezin was the last stop before Auschwitz for hundreds of thousands, including 15,000 Jewish children. This one-act play is based on the poetry created by these children including Raja, an optimistic young woman who has the courage to love despite imprisonment. She and the young man Honza share a simple romance of shared poetry and shared dreams. Raja, who teaches the other children, when there is little to teach with and helps give them hope when there is little reason for hope, triumphantly survives Terezin, "not alone and not afraid."

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For grades 6–12

The Boy Who Cried Bully
THE BULLY BUSTER IS BACK!
By Tom Quinn

Meet Nate, a typical third-grader with a love for telling tall tales. Nate's biggest problem is Sam, a fifth-grade bully who has it in for him and his friends. Thankfully, Bob the Bully-Buster visits to teach Nate's class what they can do to identify and prevent bullying in school. Based on the classic Aesop's fable, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, this honest, funny and engaging production looks at stretching truths and accepting differences.

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For grades K–6