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The Culmination of a Mighty Good Year: Garrison's 7th & 8th Grades Bring Shakespeare From the Page to Their Stage
This Thursday the 7th and 8th grade students will perform scenes from Shakespeare's The Tempest and Much Ado About Nothing in culmination of a joint project aimed at bringing the class curriculum to life. The presentation will begin at 7:30pm in the school gymnasium. This show has been directed by Ian Burger who teaches middle school English in Garrison with the support of Alison Mitchell, the artistic director of The Mighty Theater Company in Peekskill.
"This show is being performed in the round and every student is performing. The range and depth of the work these students and Mr. Burger are doing is truly inspiring", Ms. Mitchell said, "Mr. Burger has directed the 6th grade play for the last two years and his work on this piece has been remarkable. It is great to work with teachers who go above and beyond the call of duty in public education".
The Paramount is a nonprofit organization that operates as a year-round multidisciplinary center for the arts, serving over 55,000 people annually from throughout the mid-Hudson Valley Region. In past years The Paramount has hosted mainly musical acts, comedians, dance troop and art films. The Mighty Theatre is a professional theatre troop devoted to bringing live theatre to a larger audience by putting on smart, accessible works. Together, the Paramount and The Mighty Theatre have brought a full season of theatre to the entire community for the first time in years. This May 2nd. The Mighty Theatre will present A.R.Gurney's The Dining Room at the Paramount Theatre.
In addition to their work on stage, The Mighty Theatre has also been busy becoming a part of their chosen home in the Hudson Valley teaching courses on theatre in Cold Spring and Garrison schools and doing theater workshops at retirement communities. This summer they will kick off their first summer intensive aimed at training and preparing high school and college students for life as a professional actor.
For more information visit www.mightytheater.com.
Tickets for The Dining Room can be purchased at www.paramountcenter.org, or by calling 914-739-2333.
For more information on the Might Theatre contact James Cairl:
jcairl@mightytheater.com or 917-607-3734
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