The tales of heroes and demons from Greek Mythology come alive on the stage as the Goshen Community Theatre Children’s Theater Workshop presents “It’s All Greek to Me” for one night only, Thursday, at the Torrington High School Performing Arts Center Sta
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TORRINGTON – The tales of heroes and demons from Greek Mythology come alive on the stage as the Goshen Community Theatre Children’s Theater Workshop presents “It’s All Greek to Me” for one night only, Thursday, at the Torrington High School Performing Arts Center Stage here.
The Children’s Theatre Workshop is in its 15th season this year, director and co-founder Lisa Fluckiger said. The workshop was formed shortly after the founding of Goshen Community Theatre as a way to get young people involved in the craft, she said.
“We decided that, every summer, we wanted to have something that we gave back to the community,” Fluckiger said. “We were really interested in doing children’s theater. We thought it would strengthen the middle school and high school theater programs.”
Young people with an interest in the stage and performing receive the scripts for a given year’s production about 10 days before the intensive, week-long workshop begins. The idea is to have their dialog firmly in mind before the first day of rehearsals so they can concentrate on learning the music and choreography for each production.
The workshop operates from a series of six scripts written during the early years, Fluckiger said. Young people range from about eight to 14 in third through eighth grades. The idea was, when third graders start the workshop, they can work through all six scripts during their eligibility.
“We realized, once those third-graders go through the six years of the program, we could start again,” she said. “We decided to rotate.”
The six rotating stories include the Grimm Fairy Tale of Rumpelstiltskin, a western show highlighting Wyoming history, the stories of Dr. Seuss, a pirate show and a production centered on the work of the late poet Shel Silverstein.