A Guide for Teachers November 2014 Directed by Lizzie Chazen Production Design by Scott Dunlap Co-Producers Lynn Breedlove, Beth & Shaack Van Deusen, Debbie Dean, Nancy Fell, Michael Ingram & Lorie Conley ChiCken Cast nov.7th & 21st @7:30,nov.9th, 15th,& 23rd; sChool shows: nov.14 & 20th Badger.................................................ethan Fell Mr. Fox..................................................dylan grant Mrs. Fox/MaBel .................................PiPer Brantley Boggis...................................................Makenna Jordan BunCe.....................................................alexa kruszewski Bean/rat.............................................Jayden doan Fox Child 1...........................................hannah Carter Fox Child 2...........................................kristen lowery Fox Child 3...........................................Maria rodriguez Badger Child......................................kinsley Crowdis turkey Cast nov.14th, 8th, 16th,& 22nd sChool shows: nov.13th and 21st Badger.................................................sallie dean Mr. Fox: ................................................seBastien CooPer Mrs. Fox/MaBel..................................darBy Breedlove Boggis...................................................hannah vaughn BunCe.....................................................JaMie MCConniCo Bean/rat.............................................elizaBeth vanduesen Fox Child 1...........................................raChel young Fox Child 2...........................................CaleB nunes Fox Child 3...........................................Finny heCk Badger Child......................................ava CulPePPer ProduCtion Crew stage Managers ChiCken..........................................logan Jordan Turkey...........................................hayley vaughn sound teChniCian ChiCken Cast................................graCe haMilton Turkey Cast.................................JessiCa roddy deCk Crew ChiCken..........................................nolan rodriguez Turkey...........................................ellen riCh About the Director: Lizzie Chazen Lizzie Chazen, a native of Chattanooga, received her BA in Drama from the University of Vermont in 2006. In College Lizzie took the opportunity to travel abroad and gain a deeper knowledge of her craft. She studied movement at the Friches Theatre Urbain in Paris and took master classes at The Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon Avon. After getting her degree, Lizzie moved to NYC where she enrolled at The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute taking intensive classes on script analysis and meth- od acting studying under Lola Cohen. In 2007 Lizzie became an intern at the Looking Glass Theatre in NYC where she produced staged readings and new playwright festivals. In 2009 Lizzie returned to Chat- tanooga and quickly became an integral part of the theatre community. Not only has she taught theatre at Normal Park Upper School, The Chattanooga Theatre Centre and The Hunter Art Museum, she has starred in many CTC productions including A Street Car Named Desire and The Producers. She is cur- rently represented by Talent Trek in Nashville and continues to audition for commercials and films in the southeast. She is thrilled to be working full time with the Chattanooga Theatre Centre and looks forward to all the incredible work to come!! The Chattanooga Theatre Centre Staff Producing Director..........................George Quick Education Director.............................Chuck Tuttle Director of Marketing.....................Jan Belk Youth Theatre Director......................Scott Dunlap Box Office Manager.........................Wayne Schock Facilities &Technical Director.........Paul Hughes Box Office Assistants...................... Pattie Gross Master Carpenter................................Sarah Miecielica Youth Theatre & Business Manager...............................Ken Gross Education Associate........................Lizzie Chazen Roald Dahl 1916-1990 Roald Dahl’s life would have made great fiction. Perhaps that’s why he became one of the world’s most prolific and popular writers of children’s literature. His father grew up in Norway and at a young age ran away from home with his brother to seek his fortune in the capitols of Europe. While in France he met another Norwegian and they decided to partner as shipbrokers. A shipbroker buys all the supplies for ships including fuel. In those days the fuel used by ships was coal, so they headed for the larg- est coal port in the world: Cardiff, Wales. Here they became enormously successful. When Harald Dahl’s first wife died, he returned to Norway for a vacation. There he met Sofie Magdalene Hesselberg whom he married. Sophie would bear four children to add to two children from Harald Dahl’s previous marriage. Roald, named after the great Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, was born third of the four in 1916. In 1920, the family was dealt a double blow with the death of Roald’s older sister, Astri from appendicitis and, a month later, his father’s death from pneumonia. Because it was his father’s wish that his children be educat- ed in England, Sophie Dahl made the decision to keep the family in Wales. Roald was enrolled at a local school, and after an incident where he placed a mouse in a candy jar, was caned by the headmaster. His mother withdrew him from the school and placed him at St. Peter’s across the Bristol Channel from Cardiff. This meant Rould would be boarded away from home, a situation that made him very homesick. According to Dahl in his autobiographical book, Boy, treatment here was no better than at his first school. He was beaten by the headmaster and humiliated by the house matron. The same brutal treatment continued as he later attended Repton. Upon graduating from school, Dahl was hired by Shell Oil Company and was assigned to what is now Tanzania, a two week journey by boat in 1934. When war broke out in 1939, he was commissioned as an officer in the King’s African Rifles. But he wanted more adventure, so he traveled to Nairobi and joined the Royal Air force. After a brief seven hours of flight training, Dahl was sent with an old biplane to Libya. But because he was given the wrong directions, he eventually crashed in the desert, suffering and head injury and blindness. He was told he never fly again, but, after five months in an army hospital he was again fit for duty. Dahl was then sent to Greece and participated in the Battle of Athens that pitted 18 combat planes of the RAF against over 1,000 in the German army. Despite the odds, Dahl shot down enough enemy planes to be designated a flying ace. In one battle, Dahl found himself alone against ten German planes and even managed to shoot one down. As things began to go badly in Greece Dahl and his fellow pilots were sent to Egypt. After completing several missions, he became afflicted with severe blackouts, and was eventually sent home to England. Dahl was next assigned to work as an air attaché in Washington D.C. Here he met novelist C.S. Forester who asked him to write some information about flying in the war. His writing was published under the title Shot Down Over Libya. After the war, Dahl married actress Patricia Neal and fathered five children by her. The first died at the age of seven, just as his sister had so many years earlier. Their marriage lasted 30 years, during which time Ms. Neal suffered three cerebral aneurysms. It was Dahl who nursed her back to health. They divorced in 1983. Dahl’s literary career was not limited to children’s materials, or even books. He wrote several television scripts, and hosted a Twilight Zone-like series called Way Out. He also adapted two Ian Fleming novels for film: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and You Only Live Twice. His adult fiction, which tends towards the macabre, has been published in several magazines and later gathered in anthologies. Roald Dahl died in 1990 of a rare blood disease. “I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.” Children’s Books By roald dahl * The Gremlins (1943) * James and the Giant Peach (1961) - Film: (1996) * Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) - Films: (1971 & 2005) * The Magic Finger (1966) * Fantastic Mr. Fox (1970) — Film: (2009) * Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1973) * Danny, the Champion of the World (1975) — Film: (1989) * The Enormous Crocodile (1978) * The Twits (1980) * George’s Marvelous Medicine (1981) * The BFG (1982) — Film: (animated 1989) * The Witches (1983) — Film: (1990) * The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me (1985) * Matilda (1988) — Film: (1996) * Esio Trot (1989) Children’s Poetry Revolting Rhymes (1982) Dirty Beasts (1983) Rhyme Stew (1989) FantastiC Mr. Fox how do we tell the story? story theatre Our production of Fantastic Mr. Fox uses a theatrical technique known as Story Theatre. This style is named after the 1970 play of the same name created by Paul Sills, one of the founders of Second City. Story Theatre uses an ensemble group of actors playing multiple parts. It often includes more than one story using simple sets, costumes and props. Other conventions include dialogue intermixed with narration, live sound effects and heightened acting style Found oBJeCts In Fantastic Mr. Fox, there are many different objects used. In theatrical terms, these items are call proper-