Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012
ECU/Loessin Summer Theatre Festival: Seven in One Blow (children’s show)
Cullman Performance Hall, North Carolina History Center
Festival starts at 2:00pm
Tickets: $10 Adults, $5 Youth
This children’s theatre play, developed by Randy Sharp and the Axis Theatre Company of New York, tells of a child who strikes seven flies with a single swat and makes a belt emblazoned with “Seven in One Blow” to commemorate the event. Most people think he’s killed seven people and begin asking him to perform all kinds of difficult tasks. Along the way, he learns a few invaluable lessons: An ogre finds that you don’t always have to show how strong you are; a girl realizes that teasing hurts someone just like you; and a scary monster comes to understand that she may not be so scary after all. In the end, the child ultimately discovers that a parent’s love and care has no limits.
Tickets on sale online at www.ecuarts.com or call 1-800-ECU-ARTS (328-2787) or 252-328-4788. Tickets are also available in-person at the North Carolina History Center and at the performance. Seating is general admission.
Produced by the East Carolina University School of Theater And Dance in the Tryon Palace Performing Arts Series.
North Carolina Army National Guard Band Summer Concert at Tryon Palace
Tryon Palace South Lawn
Gates open at 5:00pm, Concert at 7:00pm
Free admission
Pack a picnic and join your family and friends on the beautiful South Lawn overlooking the Trent River for this concert of patriotic marches and popular song selections performed by the North Carolina Army Concert Band and the Jazz Patriots Big Band/Show band.
Please bring your own chairs and blankets, but leave pets and alcoholic beverages at home.
This concert is presented as part of the Tryon Palace Performing Arts Series.
Media sponsorship for the Tryon Palace Performing Arts Series is provided by Public Radio East.
For more information, visit www.tryonpalace.org or call 800-767-1570.
ECU/Loessin Summer Theatre Festival: Our Town
Cullman Performance Hall, North Carolina History Center
Festival starts at 7:30pm
Tickets: $15 Adults, $12.50 Council of Friends, $5 Youth
In this Thornton Wilder classic, we begin our journey as the Stage Manager welcomes us to Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, 1901. Its morning; the paperboy delivers papers; and the milkman strolls by. The Gibbs family and the Webb family are sitting down to breakfast. We travel with these folks as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually – in one of the most famous scenes in American theatre – die. The play is enacted on a bare stage with minimal props, allowing us to fill in the rest with our imagination.
Tickets on sale online at www.ecuarts.com or call 1-800-ECU-ARTS (328-2787) or 252-328-4788. Tickets are also available in-person at the North Carolina History Center and at the performance. Seating is general admission.
Produced by the East Carolina University School of Theater And Dance in the Tryon Palace Performing Arts Series.
Submitted by: Trish Ashburn, Marketing and Communications Manager, Tryon Palace