Canterbury Tales with Amy Brenneman, Bruce Davison, Wendie Malick & More Oct. 25 and Nov. 1

HIGHLAND HALL parents and performers Bruce Davison, Amy Brenneman, Brooke Smith, Elizabeth Perkins, Saul Rubinek, Bruce Weitz, Fred Goss, Jim Ortlieb, and Wendie Malick present a staged reading of James R. Winker's adaptation of THE CANTERBURY TALES, which premiered to high acclaim in 1984 at the Mark Taper Forum.

The reading takes place on Saturday, October 25, 2008 and Saturday, November 1, 2008 with 7:30pm - Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres and an 8:15pm at Rudolph Steiner Community Center Theatre: 110 Martin Alley Pasadena, CA 91105

Proceeds from both performances will benefit the new Highland Hall Waldorf School Performing Arts Theatre and Science Complex. Highland Hall has been helping families raise well-balanced, multifaceted young people from nursery though the twelfth grade since 1955. Waldorf education is based on the research into child development conducted by Austrian educator and philosopher Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). The Rudolph Steiner Community Center, located in Pasadena, CA serves the surrounding Southern California Waldorf Schools.

The new buildings are part of an overall vision to greatly reduce and eventually eliminate the campus carbon footprint of greenhouse gases by incorporating self-sustaining green technology. The theatre's unique design plans include a "living green" wall which provides geothermal insulation as well as sound absorption, photovoltaic roof installations for renewable energy generation, a movable proscenium, a removable back wall to open to the outdoors, and state-of-the-art sound and lighting equipment. Manufactured from recycled construction materials, the Performing Arts Theatre will host musical, orchestral, choral, and dramatic presentations as well as public and community assemblies.

The Science Complex will educate our future doctors, researchers, and scientists in classrooms built with the latest green technology. Built into the side of a hill, the Science Complex will feature a living sod roof, radiant and geothermal heating and cooling systems, natural insulation construction materials and will be totally self-sustaining. The Science Complex will house chemistry, biology, and physics labs. Outdoors, children will tend organic gardens and harvest fresh fruits and vegetables for school lunches.

Highland Hall's parents in the performing arts are thrilled to be able to present to the community a lively, hilarious adaptation of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales as a benefit for the school's ecologically conscious new building plan. As one of the original cast members in 1984, Bruce Davison says, "This is one of the funniest, most well-written adaptations for stage I have ever had the pleasure of performing and I am honored to do it again for this pioneering, innovative school." To learn more, please see www.highlandhall.org

TICKETS: Premium Seating: $125 Reserved Seating: $75
For Tickets (tax-deductible), call: 818-349-1394 x223, email jdres@highlandhall.org
or online go to http://www.highlandhall.org/Canterbury
Ages 16 and up recommended

 

 

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