Next Tuesday is the first Tuesdays with Stories event based on a novel for young adults. Coincidentally, it is also American Place Theatre's first literature-to-life event which employs two actors. I hope you'll join RVCCArts for this first-of-its-kind event, whether or not you are in the company of a child and join what will be a stimulating, multi-generational conversation following the performance.
The GiverBased on the novel by Lois Lowry
Performed by American Place Theatre
WHEN: Tuesday, Nov. 16, at 12 PM
TICKETS: $10
WHEN: Tuesday, Nov. 16, at 7 PM
TICKETS: $25
WHERE: The Theatre, Raritan Valley Community College, 118 Lamington Road, Branchburg
Box Office: M-F, 11-4, 908.725.3420
This marks the first young adult novel on the Literature to Life roster. It also breaks the mold by utilizing two actors.
Young Jonas performs well in the impressively ordered society that the Elders have developed. When he turns 12, Jonas is singled out for special training from The Giver—to become the new Receiver. What Jonas receives is the truth that underlies his world. There is no turning back.
This performance, and the Lois Lowry book it is based on, questions every value we have taken for granted and reexamines our most deeply held beliefs. This is a wonderful experience to share with your student, your child or grandchild.
The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing.
It is very risky.
But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom.
Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things. —LOIS LOWRY, NEWBERY ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
