Archive for November, 2011
An original tale by Moses Goldberg, one of America’s Theater for Young Audiences master playwrights, The Sapphire Comb by is influenced in theme and style by Japanese anime and Noh spirit plays. The story voices the continuing struggle for balance and survival between humankind and the earth’s natural forces.
Eleven-year-old Hannah waves her “magic” sapphire comb, a remembrance from her mother, over the water each day while singing and dancing to commune with the River Spirit. In a fit of anger, her ferryman father throws Hannah’s sapphire comb into the river, insisting that she quit pretending and help him. As the spring flooding season threatens the riverside farms, the village begins the annual process of sandbagging. As the floods rise and recede, Hannah’s sapphire comb is found on the bank, and the puzzle of her mother’s disappearance is completed with a bittersweet reunion.
Ohio Valley Summer Theater, in its 60th season of community-university theater productions are in their sixth year of offering quality Youth Theater plays to the area schools at a low fee. Professional directors and designers create a performance using local acting students and area talent to give children an experience seeing live theater. We are pleased this year to have Ohio University School of Theater faculty Rebecca Vernooy directing The Sapphire Comb.
Performances for the community are at ARTS/West, 132 W. State St. on December 9th and 10th at 7:30pm and December 11th at 2 pm.
Tickets are $12 for adults and $3 for children. The show will run approximately 45 minutes without intermission.
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