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2009-2010 School Season
Tickets $6 per child (Teachers are free!)
You can download our mailers here:
Dear Elementary Teacher,
Announcing Thistle Theatre’s 2009-10 season
Fables, Fantasies and Fun!
Baba Yaga and the Bag of Gold - Russia The Tale of Two Bad Mice - Great Britain
Auntie Lena’s African Stories - Africa The Tiger and the Dried Persimmon – Korea
The Tales of Peter Rabbit –Great Britian
Bring your class to affordable, quality puppet theatre. A great way to support classroom curriculum and learn about the art of puppetry at one of our three locations: Magnuson Park Theatre and Sunset Hill Community Club serving Seattle and the Bellevue Youth Theatre serving the Eastside.
Thistle Theatre offers 17 years of expertise in a variation of the ancient Japanese style of puppetry called Bunraku. The puppeteers, dressed all in black, manipulate the puppets from behind. With two or three puppeteers operating one puppet they skillfully bring realistic movement to the handcrafted puppets. This exciting season also features rod, body, shadow and blacklight puppets. Creative story telling and delightful music scores are hallmarks of our productions designed and built by artists in the Thistle Theatre studio.
- Each production runs 45 minutes. Please allow time for post show demonstration and Q and A.
- Education Guides align with EALRs, prepared by a certified teacher sent in PDF format.
- Tickets for one show $6 each, two shows $5.50 each and three or more shows only $5.00 each.
- $3.50 subsidized tickets available for student on free/reduced lunch program. (Order by phone only).
- Free parking and school bus unload zones at all three locations. Public transportation is a viable option at all three locations.
- Classroom teachers are free!
Reservations
Choose 10:30 am or 12:30 pm shows on the date of your choice at three convenient locations. Call early to reserve your class, payment due one month before performance. We accept cash, credit cards, purchase orders or checks. Invoices sent in PDF format.
We look forward to you joining us for this exciting season. Call (206) 524-3388 by June 25, 2009 to take advantage of these special multiple booking offers!
Sincerely,
Jean Enticknap - Artistic Director
If you can’t come to us, we can come to you! All four of this season’s mainstage productions tour. We also do workshops, classroom visits and birthday party shows.
This activity is not sponsored by any School District, and they assume no responsibility for the conduct or safety during the activity offered. In consideration for the privilege to distribute these materials, the School District shall be held harmless from any cause of action, claim or petition fi led in any court or administrative tribunal arising out of the distribution of these materials, including all costs, attorneys’ fees and judgement awards.
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Russia
Where can you find a hut that walks on chicken legs or a fence of bones and skulls? Where else but in the forest of the famous Russian witch, Baba Yaga. She is up to her old tricks again when she steals the family savings, a bag of gold, from the family of Vasalisa and Ivan. The brave, but foolish, Ivan sets off to recover the family treasure. Can Ivan avoid being captured by Baba Yaga or will his sister Vasalisa need to attempt a daring rescue?
Ages 3-12
Educational emphasis : Stranger awareness and the danger of acting on impulse.
School Show Times:
TICKETS: Student Price: $6.00; Teachers: FREE
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Magnuson Park Theatre: |
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Theatre Building #47
7110 62nd Ave NE, Seattle WA 98115
October 7,8, and 9 10:30AM and 12:30PM |
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Sunset Hill: |
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Sunset Hill Community Club
3003 NW 66th Street, Seattle
October 14 and 16 10:30AM and 12:30PM |
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Bellevue Youth Theater: |
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16661 Northup Way
Bellevue, WA 98008
October 21, 22, 23 10:30AM and 12:30PM |
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Great Britain
Young Beatrix Potter persuades her governess to join her in reenacting the day her pet mice earned their reputation for being “two bad mice”. On a search for food, mice Tom Thumb and Hunca Mucha find Beatrix’s doll house and are driven to outrageous behavior when they learn the delicious looking food is made of inedible plaster! A new production with puppets designed by Tony DeFilipps and funded in part by the Jim Henson Foundation.
Educational emphasis: For students to listen and discuss Japanese cultural traditions.
School Show Times:
TICKETS: Student Price: $6.00; Teachers: FREE
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Sunset Hill: |
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Sunset Hill Community Club
3003 NW 66th Street, Seattle
December 2, 4 10:30AM and 12:30PM |
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Magnuson Park Theatre: |
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Theatre Building #47
7110 62nd Ave NE, Seattle WA 98115
December 9, 10, 11 10:30AM and 12:30PM |
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Bellevue Youth Theater: |
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16661 Northup Way
Bellevue, WA 98008
December 16, 17, 18 10:30AM and 12:30PM |
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CALL (206) 524-3388
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Africa
Auntie Lena and her puppet friends tell three African stories of friendship. Jackal loves to trick his friend Rabbit into making her play his favorite game in Jackal’s Favorite Game. The Monkey’s Heart is a trickster story of a friendship betrayed, and new friendship is explored in Why Frog and Snake Never Play Together
School Show Times:
TICKETS: Student Price: $6.00; Teachers: FREE
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Magnuson Park Theatre: |
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Theatre Building #47
7110 62nd Ave NE, Seattle WA 98115
January 20, 21, 22 10:30AM and 12:30PM |
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Sunset Hill: |
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Sunset Hill Community Club
3003 NW 66th Street, Seattle
February 3, 5 10:30AM and 12:30PM |
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Bellevue Youth Theater: |
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16661 Northup Way
Bellevue, WA 98008
February 10, 11, 12 10:30AM and 12:30PM |
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Korea
A young tiger, thinking he is the fiercest in all Korea, ventures down a mountainside in search of food. He overhears a mother trying to stop her daughter from crying with a piece of dried persimmon (kotgum). The silly tiger thinks the kotgum must be a very frightening creature if it can instantly stop a child from crying. Afraid that the kotgum will find him, the Tiger hides in the barn where a thief is hiding!
Ages 3-12
Educational Emphasis: The Korean culture and the problems that come from misunderstanding.
School Show Times:
TICKETS: Student Price: $6.00; Teachers: FREE
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Magnuson Park Theatre: |
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Theatre Building #47
7110 62nd Ave NE, Seattle WA 98115
March 3, 4, 5 10:30AM and 12:30PM |
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Sunset Hill Community Club
3003 NW 66th Street, Seattle
March 17, 19 10:30AM and 12:30PM |
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Bellevue Youth Theater: |
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16661 Northup Way
Bellevue, WA 98008
March 10, 11, 12 10:30AM and 12:30PM |
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CALL (206) 524-3388
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Great Britain
"The Tale of Peter Rabbit" and "The Tale of Benjamin Bunny" are combined to reveal the beloved world of Beatrix Potter. On a beautiful summer morning the lovable hedgehog Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle merrily journeys to the fir tree home of Mrs. Rabbit. She is delivering the freshly washed clothes of Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter. Little does she know that Peter is going to wear his clean blue jacket on a dangerous adventure in Mr. McGregor’s garden!
Call (206) 524-3388 to join us for our Peter Rabbit tea party!
School Show Times:
TICKETS: Student Price: $6.00; Teachers: FREE
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Sunset Hill: |
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Sunset Hill Community Club
3003 NW 66th Street, Seattle
May 12, 14 10:30AM and 12:30PM |
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Bellevue Youth Theater: |
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16661 Northup Way
Bellevue, WA 98008
May 19, 20, 21 10:30AM and 12:30PM |
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Magnuson Park Theatre: |
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Theatre Building #47
7110 62nd Ave NE, Seattle WA 98115
May 26, 27, 28 10:30AM and 12:30PM |
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