Folk & Fairy Tale Slam - II    "feast and famine"    

NOV 15^th   from 7pm to 9pm

The Puppet Showplace Theatre

32 Station Street  Brookline, MA 02445

Bring your fantastic, realistic, metaphorical and/or phantasmagorical stories about food from around the world.

Traditional storytellers from massmouth,inc. featuring Laura Packer & Danielle Schulman as co hosts and George Capaccio as the featured teller, will perform at the Puppet Showplace Theatre (PST) in the 2nd of 6 folk & fairy tale slams events .

Professional storyteller, George Capaccio, started his storytelling career in fifth grade when Mr. Lynch, his teacher, praised the outlandish tall tales he loved to make up and the “mad scientist” plays he and his friend Alex performed for their classmates. Before turning pro, George performed in many of Boston’s theaters, including the American Repertory Theater. For 5 years, he acted with the Museum of Science’s Science Theater. He also worked with Boston-based children’s theater companies as an actor, writer, workshop leader, and artist educator. Building on this experience, George went on to co-host The Children’s Room, a nationally broadcast, award-winning children’s TV show. For each episode, he delivered dramatic readings of contemporary and traditional children’s books. Besides telling stories, George has written fiction and nonfiction, and recorded children’s books-on-tape and CD for leading educational publishers.

GUIDELINES for TELLERS

We will pick 5 tellers for each night and leave two slots for random choice from “the hat”.  Pre-selected tellers get in free and must arrive by 6:30pm to claim slot

This program challenges tellers of traditional stories with the following guidelines:

- tell a story no longer than a 7:59 minutes

- the story must be fiction and

- from any folk or world tradition

- the story may NOT be a literary work,

- must be the teller’s own version, of a folk tale

- all  story genres are permitted:   (parable, myth, legend, fable, tall tale etc.)

- tellers may use poetry, props, costumes, music BUT no notes  1st and 2nd place winners will advance to the finals date and venue TBA • Grand Prize TBA winners may perform again if there is room but cannot win twice.

Tickets will be $10 at the door and advance tickets are  available online @ $8+handling.

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