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Theatre Express
Theatre Express!
Feb. 11 & 12, 2025
9:00 and 12:00 p.m.
Hayes Concert Hall, UTC
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Flora & Ulysses
Performed by Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga
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Theatre Express is a performance of a play based on a children's book and is free to all Hamilton Co. 4th grade classes. The performance is funded as part of ArtsBuild's Imagine program, which shares different art forms each year with elementary schools, covering the cost of transportation. Lesson plans on the play are available to download on the button to the right.
For questions or help with registering your 4th grade class, contact
Chelsea Risley, Executive Director, at chelsea@solitalliance.org or 423-267-1218.
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About 2024's Performance of The Borrowers
The Borrowers, based on the beloved children's book by Mary Norton, is a fantasy play that details the under-the-floorboards lifestyle of the Clock family, where the miniature creatures live in quiet secrecy, away from human eyes. The Clock family survives by "borrowing" from the humans who live above in an old English farmhouse. They use their spools of thread as dining tables and their toothpaste caps as drinking cups. That is until the explorative only child, Arrietty, is spotted by the humans. The Clocks are then forced to escape the only place they’ve ever called home and traverse the expansive world on their own. As they struggle to survive, they make new friends and learn that the world might not be as scary of a place as it seems.​
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Can a little squirrel change the human heart? After getting sucked up by a vacuum cleaner, a (now hairless) squirrel is rescued by Flora Belle Buckman, a 10-year-old self-proclaimed cynic. She names him Ulysses and discovers he has been reborn a superhero. Indeed, this once average squirrel can suddenly understand Flora, fly, and even write poetry. Together they embark on an adventure full of quirky characters and bursting with heart.
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