presents... Written by Washington Irving Adapted by F.J. Hartland Directed by Mark Calla October 30-November 7, 2010 New Hazlett Theater Generously funded by and supporters like you! FOR TEACHERS EDUCATOR PREVIEWS Come join Prime Stage Theatre for our *FREE* Educator Previews during our final dress re- hearsals! All attendees are allowed to bring one adult guest, also free of charge. Previews begin at 8 pm and take place at the New Hazlett Theater in Pittsburgh’s Historic Northside (www.newhazletttheater.org). Please RSVP to [email protected]. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Friday, October 29, 2010 The Glass Menagerie Friday, March 4, 2011 Antigone Friday, May 13, 2011 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS Prime Stage Theatre is thrilled to announce its next professional development workshop, “Improvising the Classics” on Monday, March 14, 2011 from 8 am-3 pm at the New Hazlett Theater. This workshop will provide practical improvisational exercises to use in your class- room that can work on any classic curriculum text to explore characterization, tone and mood, and plot development. To register for the workshop, please download a brochure at www.primestage.com/workshops.htm. PERUSAL SCRIPTS Excerpts from scripts of all our productions are available for your perusal. Please email the Education Director, [email protected], to request a copy. Generously funded by and supporters like you! FOR TEACHERS & STUDENTS POST-SHOW CHAT SESSIONS Stay after the school matinees to ask questions of both the actors and the characters! During the 20-minute post-show chat sessions, delve into the minds and reasoning of the characters and then ask questions of the actors about the rehearsal process, theatre performance, and their ex- periences working on that particular production. No registration required. ADOPT-A-SCHOOL PROGRAM Prime Stage Theatre’s flagship education program strives to increase adolescent literacy through theatre in underserved and underperforming school districts in the Western Pennsyl- vania area. In this FREE program, schools receive tickets and books for each Prime Stage pro- duction, 10 in-school workshops, and professional development opportunities for teachers. If you would like your school to become involved, please download an application at our website, www.primestage.com. TECHNICAL MENTOR PROGRAM Prime Stage Theatre’s technical mentor program is open to any student interested in learning about sound, lights, costumes, set design, props, back stage crew and even box office manage- ment! Through hands-on experience during the production process and attentive guidance by Prime Stage artists, students leave the program with workforce skills and a deeper appreciation for the theatrical craft. For more information, contact [email protected]. IN-SCHOOL WORKSHOPS—NEW OFFERING Want to explore acting exercises with your students? Learn about set or sound design? Find out about theatre movement or fight choreography? Dive into the text through improvisation and writing? Prime Stage now offers in-school workshops to meet your needs. Prime Stage artists come to your classroom to show and teach their craft. Topics are tailored to each individual show and are subject to availability. For more information, contact [email protected]. Generously funded by and supporters like you! The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Production Guide Welcome to Prime Stage Theatre: Volume 1, Issue 1 10.8.2010 where literature comes to life! Production Guide created by Alyssa Dear Educator, and other curricular con- Herzog Melby for Prime Stage Theatre. Please do not reproduce tent, the resource guides Welcome to the 2010-11 any part of the study guide for are meant to be used publication without permission. season at Prime Stage when teaching the text of Theatre! We are thrilled our production. to be back with new, chal- lenging, and relevant The second guide is what Did you know… productions of three clas- you are reading right Prime Stage Theatre sics: The Legend of Sleepy now—the Production has been in existence Hollow, The Glass Me- Guide. The production for over 13 years. nagerie, and Antigone. guide includes informa- tion such as actor bios, We are excited to an- Prime Stage Theatre’s design concepts, re- nounce something new very first production was hearsal notes, and other based upon feedback from A Woman Called Truth information to help you teachers like you. Prime about Sojourner Truth. and your students enjoy Stage Theatre will now be and understand our Prime Stage Theatre producing two useful unique and artistic inter- first performed at the guides for you to use in pretations of the texts. Station Square Play- the classroom. The first is The production guides house (now Hard Rock what has been up on our will be up on our website Tuesdays with Morrie Café). website for awhile—the 4 weeks prior to the open- Prime Stage Theatre Resource Guide. You told ing of a production. We 2010 us you wanted the re- look forward to seeing source guides as soon as you soon at the theatre! you could get your hands Check out what’s inside! on them, and we’ve deliv- ~Alyssa Herzog Melby ered. Filled with histori- Education Director LOSH in 30 sec- 5 cal background and con- onds…or Less! text, classroom activities, Washington Irving 5 Who’s who in the 6 Curriculum Connections Corner Theatre Prime Stage Theatre is Adapting LOSH 7 committed to directly correlating our programs Arts and Humanities: Directing LOSH 8 to the PDE Academic 9.1-9.4 Standards. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and this Reading, Writing, Designing LOSH 9 production guide may be Speaking, & Listening: used to address the fol- 1.3-1.8 Rehearsing LOSH 13 lowing curriculum con- tent standards: Just for Teens 15 Page 5 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Before the Show The Legend of Sleepy Hollow abod Crane, who came to Sleepy Hol- trees and heard a moan on the wind. low to instruct the local children. A Sure enough he met the infamous in 30 seconds… superstitious and greedy fellow, Ich- Headless Horseman face-to-face, and This short story begins with the nar- abod devoured the stories of Sleepy from that night forward was never rator, the late Diedrich Knicker- Hollow with relish, until he became seen again in Sleepy Hollow. bocker, describing the area of Tarry- enamored with Ms. Katrina Van Tas- town, a Dutch settlement, in the late sel, daughter of the wealthiest man 18th century. A dreamlike quality ...or less! in town. Rivaling him for Katrina’s pervades the atmosphere, and this A superstitious and greedy school- heart was the town brute, Brom ethereal characteristic of the town’s master, Ichabod Crane, arrives in Bones. They traded verbal barbs for surroundings have given rise to Sleepy Hollow and falls in love with weeks until the fateful night of Van many stories of supernatural seeings, the local belle, Katrina Van Tassel. Tassel’s party. After much dancing beings, and occurrences. The narra- He is battling to win her heart with and Brom’s frightful stories, Ichabod tor recounts how one being in par- Brom Bones, who delights in scaring waited to talk with Katrina, only to ticular—the Headless Horseman, a Ichabod with stories. Upon hearing overhear how she was using Ichabod Hessian trooper killed during the of her wily ways, Ichabod storms out to make Brom Bones jealous. Ich- Revolutionary War —dominates local of the party, only to meet his deeper abod left the party in despair. On his storytelling. The narrator then be- fear—the Headless Horseman! way back to his home, however, he gins to weave his own tale about Ich- thought he saw something in the Washington Irving Washington Irving was born on April in 1818 with the closure of his 3, 1783 in New York City to wealthy family’s business. Irving then merchant parents. Often sick as a earnestly put all his efforts child and the youngest of 11 children, into making a viable living off Irving was spoiled. He was not forced his writings. His efforts paid to attend college, which could have off with the international suc- adversely affected his health, and in- cess of his fake travel essays, stead was encouraged to be outdoors The Sketchbook of Geoffrey as much as possible. He traveled often Crayon, Gent. (1820), which to the Hudson River Valley, and these contained two of his classics, experiences fostered his imagination Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van and love of nature. He eventually Winkle. Irving would stay in studied law and passed the bar in London until 1832 and arrive 1806, although he never had much back in America as a famous passion for law. Instead, he turned to literary hero. In his later his calling—writing. His break- years, Irving lived peacefully through satiric novel, The History of at his home, “Sunnyside,” and New York, introduced one of his most took a brief stint as the U.S. well-known characters, Diedrich Minister to Spain from 1842- Knickerbocker, who later appears as 46. His last great masterpiece the narrator of The Legend of Sleepy was a biography of his name- Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. This sake, The Life of George Wash- Image from Evert A. Duykinck’s A Portrait Gal- character spawned an entire group of ington. Irving died of a heart lery of Emininent Men and Women of Europe and literary writers from New York called attack in 1859. Irving’s legacy America, with Biographies (New York: Johnson, “The Knickerbockers” and would later as a “Founding Father of Wilson, and Co., 1873) become the namesake for the NBA American Literature” attests team, “The Knicks.” Irving fought as a to his attempt to meld the Old Colonel in the War of 1812 and trav- World literary traditions with a New relaxed warm tone, he gave America eled to London in 1815.