THE HUMAN RACE THEATRE COMPANY

Dayton's Professional Regional Theatre

Kevin Moore, Producing Artistic Director

126 North Main Street, Suite 300

Dayton, Ohio 45402

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EDUCATION

The Human Race on Education

Philips Creativity Center

Kids and Teens Classes

Girl Scouts Workshops

Career Days/Job Shadowing

Performance Calendar

THEATRE IN CONTEXT

Teaching tomorrow's audiences today

Theatre In Context is a comprehensive educational initiative developed jointly by The Human Race Theatre Company and Muse Machine. As a curriculum-based program, it thematically links a fully-staged Loft Theatre production with an in-school touring production presented at junior and senior high schools throughout southwestern Ohio. Popular among both teachers and students, Theatre In Context is designed to inspire young audiences while dramatically enhancing literature, history and social studies by introducing additional materials and opportunities to underscore connections between the two plays featured each season.

In addition to the two productions each season, Theatre In Context also provides lesson plans, study guides, recommended reading and viewing lists, workshops and discussion opportunities on related subjects, and student tickets to the associated Loft production at a substantially reduced rate.

For the 2012-2013 Season, we paid tribute to Charles Dickens in the year of the 200th anniversary of his birth. In September and October, we presented the new play A Dickens of a Time in dozens of schools in 11 Ohio counties. Professional actors toured with set pieces and costumes to bring Mr. Dickens to life, along with many of his most memorable characters, for the education and enjoyment of thousands of students. A Dickens of a Time is tied to and followed by our Loft Series production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver!, onstage November 29 – December 22.

A Dickens of a Time was commissioned through the Marsha Hanna Memorial Fund specifically for our Theatre In Context program.

Download the study guide PDF for A Dickens of a Time
Download the study guide PDF for Oliver!

Schools and organizations that are not a part of Muse Machine can still enjoy the In School Tour.
To discuss booking our next In School Tour for fall of 2013, contact Company Manager Kryss Northrup at (937) 461-3823, ext. 3116 or kryss@humanracetheatre.org.

Theatre in Context is sponsored by
The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation
The Marsha Hanna Memorial Fund
Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc.
KeyBank
Muse Machine
Target Stores, Inc.
Vectren Incorporated

The 2011 tour of Change	The 2010 tour of Belch, Bottom & the Boys
The 2007 tour of Will Power	The 2002 tour of Antigone

Past Theatre In Context Programs
Season	In School Tour Production	Loft Series Production
2011-2012 A Time of Change	Change A look at three historical events and their impact on the lives of our youth	Caroline, or Change A sung-thru musical about family change in 1963 Louisiana at the beginning of the civil rights movement
2010-2011 The Classical Period	Belch, Bottom & the Boys An inside look at the "infamous" buffoons of Shakespeare	Twelfth Night A unique setting of one of Shakespeare's funniest comedies
2009-2010 The Baroque Period	Lazzi-Faire Tracing Commedia dell'arte devices from the Renaissance to now	Man of La Mancha A musical adaptation of the classic novel, Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes
2008-2009 Myths and Legends	Myth-connected Original of Greek myths	Brother Wolf An Appalachian retelling of Beowulf, produced in collaboration with traditional music and the dance company Rhythm in Shoes
2007-2008 Shakespeare’s Poetry	Will Power Original of monologues and sonnets	Romeo and Juliet A traditional staging of Shakespeare’s classic teenage love story
2006-2007 Mark Twain short stories	Be’Twixt and Be Twain Original of Twain quips and short stories	Big River The broadway musical of Mark Twain’s Huck Finn
2005-2006 Shakespeare's Tempest	The Tempest An abbreviated version for school-age students	The Tempest An impressionistic interpretation of Shakespeare
2004-2005 Soviet Socialism	Animal Farm by George Orwell	Every Good Boy Deserves Favour Concerning the Soviet practice of imprisoning political dissidents in mental institutions, produced in collaboration with The Dayton Philharmonic
2003-2004 John Steinbeck	The Steinbeck Show Original of Steinbeck excerpts	Of Mice and Men Steinbeck adapted this script from his novel
2002-2003 Classic Heroes	Antigone Original adaptation	Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller's modern classic
2001-2002 Temptations of Evil	Scratch An adaptation of The Devil and Daniel Webster	Macbeth Shakespeare's tragic tale of a Scottish king
Hard copies of the study guides are available for most of the programs, upon request.

THEATRE IN CONTEXT

Teaching tomorrow's audiences today

Past Theatre In Context Programs