SIUE’s A Season for the Child Opens Dec. 7 with A Stageplay Holiday
A Season for the Child (SfC), the family-oriented live theater season sponsored by the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Friends of Theater and Dance (FOTAD), opens its 30th season on Saturday, Dec. 7, with A Stageplay Holiday at 2 p.m. in the Dunham Hall Theater on the SIUE campus.
The production will be performed by StagePlay Learning, an Edwardsville company that specializes in interactive drama-based instruction through performances and workshops for young children. The play will provide a festive afternoon of holiday storytelling, designed for young audiences and appropriate for all family members.
Admission is $7 for adults and $5 for children. Tickets will be sold in the lobby outside Dunham Hall Theater one hour before curtain time the day of the performance.
SfC’s spring play, The Ever After, will be performed by Curtain’s Up Theater Company on Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020 at 2 p.m. in the Dunham Hall Theater. Curtain’s Up Theater Company is a non-profit organization, which performs a wide variety of community theater in the Madison County area, primarily in Collinsville and Edwardsville.
The Ever After features a cheesy talk show host who invites traditional fairy tale characters to reconcile on live television after a 20-year estrangement. From Snow White and the Evil Queen to Cinderella and her middle-aged ugly stepsisters, this TV show parody asks the question, “Can’t we all just get along?”
Admission is $7 for adults and $5 for children. Tickets will be sold in the lobby outside Dunham Hall Theater one hour before curtain time the day of the performance.
SfC, which premiered in 1990, features adaptations of various children’s stories using interactive techniques that not only delight children and parents, but also provide a thorough learning experience.
FOTAD, a support group for the SIUE Department of Theater and Dance, uses SfC proceeds to help fund merit awards for talented Theater and Dance students. Each year, FOTAD awards more than $5,000 in merit scholarships to qualified students and funds scholarships for new freshmen entering the Theater and Dance program.
