Wendy Lement, Artistic Director

Uprising on King Street: The Boston Massacre to Premiere at the John Adams Courthouse in Boston!
     Theatre Espresso will premiere its newest play Uprising on King Street on October 12, 2006 at the John Adams Courthouse in Boston. The interactive drama will be performed at the Adams Courthouse through June 2008, in partnership with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society.
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ABOUT THEATRE ESPRESSO

Theatre Espresso creates, produces, and performs interactive dramas that bring history to life for students, in order to foster a generation of critical thinkers and true citizens.

Since 1992, Theatre Espresso has toured its educational dramas to schools, museums, libraries, and courthouses throughout New England. Inspired by the highly successful Theatre-in-Education teams of Great Britain and by the belief that drama is a potent teaching tool, Theatre Espresso’s work challenges students to make critical judgments, explore social relationships, reflect on the role of law and human rights in our society, and question accepted truths about the history of America. These plays confront students with complex situations—based on actual historical events—that provoke a variety of opinions and solutions. By asking students to consider themselves participants in the drama—inhabitants of 1706 Salem Village, members of the post-Civil War U.S. Congress, or Supreme Court Justices—the company engages students in examining contradictory events and testimony in order to reach their decision. Theatre Espresso does not advocate any one viewpoint, but hopes to compel students to relate historical events to contemporary issues.

LINKS TO CLASSROOM LEARNING: In support of the Massachusetts Arts Curriculum Framework, our programs are designed to exercise multiple intelligences and explore multicultural and interdisciplinary connections including Language Arts, Social Studies, the Arts and Multicultural Studies. Theatre Espresso is on the Events Roster of the Massachusetts Cultural Council.



PERFORMANCE TIMES: 1 hour for The Confession of Ann Putnam , Lincoln's Final Hope and Justice at War (1.5 hours for The Trial of Anthony Burns or Uprising on King Streeet: The Boston Massacre )
BOOKING A PROGRAM: To bring The Confession of Ann Putnam, Lincoln's Final Hope, Justice at War , or  The Trial of Anthony Burns or Massacre on King Street   to your school, please contact:

Derek Nelson Phone: (617) 899-1635 Email:dstonenelson@aol.com

To arrange a field trip to see The Trial of Anthony Burns at the Concord School of Philosophy (preceded/followed by a tour of Louisa May Alcott's home), please contact:

The Orchard House
(978) 369-4118.
www.louisamayalcott.org

  

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