Water Water Everywhere

Shafter, CA
Hello Friends,

So part of our job includes conducting workshops in the schools in addition to presenting the show. These range from Makeup to Improv and cover grades K-12. Usually the attendance is limited to 30-60 kids. Except for one workshop, our assembly workshop which hs many kids as possible can attend.

In the past the assembly has dealt with theatre and storytelling. However in the past two years MCT has partner up with the US Forest Service to create assemblies to get kids outside and respecting nature. It's a nice win/win situation for MCT and the Forestry service. This years assembly theme is water conservation, the title of the assembly being the title of this post. But wait - there is a website for the assembly as well. You can watch a couple of clips from the assembly to get a taste of it!

We each play many characters on our quest to find who is leaving large webbed footprints around areas of water. Yours truly plays Sherlock Houses the greatest of all living detectives (let me tell you, my British is AMAZING!). Shawna and I each play dogs, she Spot and I Fluffy (hence the pictures). The kids love these guys the most as they are the goofiest characters of them all.

We have had the assembly since September and somehow have not presented it until this week. We did a lot of cramming and practicing and yesterday it went really well. We had a nice audience of about 150 K-5. We will probably do the assembly about 3 more times this year and that is not a bad thing. Just another day on the road for me.

The Adventure Continues - ML