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Youth examine in preparation for a earlier manufacturing on the Black Box Arts Center. Courtesy photograph

SHEPHERDSTOWN — The Roving Peregrine Theatre Company hosted a Fall Youth Theatre Festival in its efficiency area, the Black Box Arts Center, on Saturday afternoon.

The pageant, which featured a lot of carnival video games, crafts and snacks, was created this yr to assist native households plan forward and get a reduction on upcoming youngsters’s workshops and productions.

“We haven’t done anything like this before,” stated Roving Peregrine Theatre Company Founding Artistic Director Heather Wallen.

According to Wallen, the pageant was created to share details about their upcoming youngsters’s productions and workshops, from the top of this yr by the summer time. Workshops will embrace: a spring manufacturing for youth ages 8-18 of quick performs known as, “Mixtape: A Celebration of New Plays Based on Popular Songs”; a Princess, Knights & Dragons Theatre Camp for ages 4-6 in the summertime; a Tales of Camelot Theatre Camp for ages 7-9 in the summertime; a summer time Tech Theatre Camp for youth ages 9-18; and a manufacturing of a brand new play by Don Zolidis, “Emily Bronte, Necromancer,” for youth ages 8-18. Those who signed up on the pageant for any of the packages obtained a 20% low cost off of the registration value.

The same 20% low cost was additionally utilized, on the pageant, to the acquisition of tickets for the corporate’s subsequent two child-friendly reveals: Taz Stahlnecker and Stephen Bennet’s “To Those Who Love the Moon: An Anthology of Lunar Shorts” and “The 42nd Annual: A Very Peregrine Christmas Spectacular,” which was written by Roving Peregrine Theatre Company Founding Artistic Director Heather Wallen.

“We wanted to build up some interest in the kids and get them signed up for our programs,” Wallen stated. “We know that kids have so many options to choose from, with their extracurricular activities, so we wanted to make sure they knew what we will be offering, well in advance of when they have been scheduled to be held.”

Wallen and firm board member and treasurer Zane Oberholzer oversee the youth academic theater programming, with a deal with making certain individuals be taught new abilities with every one. Oberholzer, who has 35 years of expertise in youth theater schooling, stated the factor that actually units The Roving Peregrine Theatre Company’s programming aside from the remaining, is that it permits each participant to have the chance to shine.

“For a lot of kids in theater programs, they never get to play anything more than a tree,” Oberholzer stated. “They never get to truly spread their wings in that kind of educational environment.”

Additionally, the programming gives youth with an individualized schooling from firm members and from professionals, who’ve been employed to share their theatrical experience.

“We’re trying to make sure that, by the time they have aged out of the kids programming, they’re ready to do adult productions,” Wallen stated. “We’re very education based, even for adults. We want to make sure everyone is getting something out of their experience here.”

To be taught extra concerning the Roving Peregrine Theatre Company, go to https://rovingperegrine.squarespace.com/.