Walk Two Moons Adapted by Tom Arvetis, based on Newbery Award-winning book by Sharon Creech Directed by Lisa Ann Goldsmith May 10 - May 19, 2013 2 Prime Stage Theatre Co. is generously funded by the following organizations. Support them when you can! 3 FOR TEACHERS & STUDENTS POST-SHOW CHAT SESSIONS Stay after the school matinees to ask questions of both the actors and the production crew! During the 15-minute post-show chat sessions, delve into the story and then ask questions of the actors about the rehearsal process, theatre performance, and their experiences working on that particular production. No registration required! THE LITERACY IN ACTION PROGRAM Prime Stage Theatre’s flagship education program strives to increase adolescent literacy through theatre in underserved and underperforming school districts in the Western Pennsylvania area. In this FREE program, schools receive tickets and books for each Prime Stage production, 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: http://www.primestage.com/files/pdf/literacy_in_action_application.pdf EVERYTHING IS FINE Prime Stage Theatre is proud to offer a touring production of Everything is Fine, a 45 minute play designed to identify the warning signs of teen dating violence that can help save the life of a friend, loved one or even you. Written and performed by Pittsburgh area teens this show will make an impact at your school or community center. If you would Everything is Fine to come to your school or community center, please visit our website, http://www.primestage.com/education/teen_dating_awareness.html OTHER OPPORTUNITIES FOR TEENS, FAMILIES AND ADULTS Prime Stage Theatre offers opportunities for people of all ages to get involved with the theater. Check out our website to learn about the Teen Board, Mentorships, Volunteering, Book Readings and many other exciting events. There is something for everyone at Prime Stage! http://www.primestage.com/ 4 Walk Two Moons Resource Guide Welcome to Prime Stage Theatre: Volume 4, Issue 3 Bringing Literature to Life! 4.23.2013 Dear Educator, Did you know… Welcome to Prime Stage Theatre’s 2012-2013 *Prime Stage Theatre has Season! We had a very successful season last year been in existence for 16 years. with acclaimed productions of The Scarlet Letter, The Elephant Man and A Wrinkle in Time. This year, we *Prime Stage Theatre’s inspire you to imagine and discover the alarming very first production was A future in Fahrenheit 451, the roaring twenties in The Woman Called Truth about Sojourner Truth. The Great Gatsby, PST 2012-2013 Great Gatsby and an incredible journey in Walk Two Moons. *Prime Stage Theatre first performed at the Station This Resource Guide is designed to provide historical Square Playhouse – now background and context, classroom activities and the Hard Rock Cafe! curricular content to help you enliven your students’ experience with the literature. We hope it will inspire you to use theatrical games and creative thinking in Check out what’s inside! your classroom in order to spark personal connections Fahrenheit 451, PST 2012-2013 with the theme and characters in the stories. Walk Two Moons in 30 seconds or less 5 If you have any questions about the information or activities in this guide, please don’t hesitate to contact Meet Sharon Creech 6 me. I’m happy to help and welcome your suggestions! Sharon Creech Interview 7 Monica Stephenson Tom Arvetis, playwright 8-9 Education Director [email protected] Charactesr 10 The Elephant Man, PST 2011-2012 Putting it in Context 11-15 Symbols 16 Curriculum Connections Corner Themes 17 Prime Stage Theatre is committed Arts and Humanities: 9.1-9.4 What is What? 18 to directly correlating our programs Reading, Writing, Speaking, & to the PDE Academic Standards. Listening: 1.1-1.9 Class Activities 19-24 Walk Two Moons and this resource guide may be used to address the Geography: 7.1-7.4 Putting it on Stage 25 following curriculum content Attending the History: 8.1, 8.3 standards: performance 26 Information & Resources 27 PST & The Common Core Standards! 28 5 Summary – Walk Two Moons ‘Don’t judge a man until you’ve walk two moons in his moccasins –Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons The book Walk Two Moons in 30 Phoebe's family is growing more and seconds… For reasons that are unclear to more upset as the days go by. Sal and Salamanca Tree Hiddle, her mother left the Phoebe rush to the police office to offer them family farm in Kentucky for Lewiston, Idaho, the meager evidence they have collected. and did not return. Sal’s grief-stricken father While there, Sal finds that the lunatic, who rents out the farm that Sal loves and uproots appeared on the porch earlier, is the police her to Euclid, Ohio. Sal hates her new home sergeant's son. That same day, Sal learns and cannot accept her father’s disturbing that Mrs. Cadaver suffered a great loss only relationship with red-haired Margaret a few years prior, when a car accident killed Cadaver, a nurse who has persuaded Mr. her husband and blinded her mother. Hiddle to move to Ohio for work. Sal refuses Sal and her grandparents take in Old to believe that her mother will never return. Faithful, and Gram, whose breathing is 1995 Original Cover That summer, Gram and Gramps troubled, revels in its splendor. When they where her mother's bus had lost control Hiddle take her on a six-day car trip from leave Yellowstone National Park, Sal and crashed. Sal climbs down to inspect Euclid to Lewiston, Idaho. Sal’s goal is to resumes her story. Sal and Phoebe the wrecked, abandoned bus. When she reach the destination on Sal’s mother’s determine that the sergeant's son lives at a returns to the car, a sheriff stands ready to birthday. The trio travels westward, retracing nearby college campus, and, convinced he arrest her, but when he hears her story, he the exact route taken by Sal’s mother. Along holds the key to the mystery, take a bus to drives Sal to her mother's grave. Sal is the way, Sal tells her grandparents the story visit him. On campus, the two girls find the able to put closure in her mother’s death of her best friend, Phoebe Winterbottom. lunatic and Mrs. Winterbottom sitting on a and realizes that the trip to Idaho was a Phoebe is a high-strung, prim, and wildly bench, holding hands. Sal runs away and gift from Gramps and Gram. They were imaginative girl. Phoebe feels certain that finds herself at a nearby mental hospital. To giving her a chance to walk in her mother some sinister connection exists between her surprise, she runs into Ben and his moccasins. When Sal makes it back to Margaret Cadaver, some mysterious notes mother, who is a patient at the hospital. The Coeur D’Alene she learns that Gram has that start appearing on her family's doorstep, two young people giddily share a delicious passed away. and a strange boy, whom Phoebe dubs “the first kiss. Mrs. Winterbottom returns home a Sal and her father later return to lunatic.” Sal gradually becomes caught up in few days later and explains to her family that their farm in Bybanks, Kentucky and begin her friend's story. Sal also finds herself in a the lunatic is actually her illegitimate son. trying to rebuild their lives their without her flirtation with Ben, a boy from school. She had always been afraid to tell her family mother. Sal, who has made peace with her By this point in Sal's tale, she and her for fear of letting them down. The mother's tragic death, looks forward to grandparents have reached South Dakota. Winterbottoms are shaken but are happy to each day on the farm and to the upcoming They stop to swim in the Missouri River, be together again. visit of all her friends from Euclid, Ohio. where a snake bites Gram's leg. Sal and her Sal decides that she will make amends with Mrs. Cadaver and listen to her grandfather rush Gram to the hospital, and …or less. story. Mrs. Cadaver explains to Sal that she although Gram recovers by the next morning, Thirteen-year-old Sal’s mother left and Sal's mother became friends on the long her health begins to falter after this point. over a year ago. When her friend bus trip from Ohio to Idaho, and that Mrs. Phoebe's mother disappears, without Phoebe’s mom disappears, painful Cadaver and Sal's father became friends a word of explanation. Phoebe feels certain memories of Sal’s own abandonment because Mrs. Cadaver was the lone survivor she has been kidnapped and begins an come to the surface. Determined to find of the accident that killed Sal's mother and obsessive investigation for clues. Sal retells Phoebe’s mother, the girls begin seeing was able to tell Sal's father about the last the story of her own mother's disappearance. murderous plots and schemes around days and moments of Sal's mother's life. Sal had fallen from a tree and broken her leg. every corner. Sal shares these conspiracy Sal and her grandparents have Her mother, who was pregnant, carried Sal theories with her Gram and Gramps during reached Coeur D'Alene in northern Idaho, home and rushed her to the hospital. That a cross-country trip to confront her mother. but Gramps and Sal must rush Gram, who is evening, Sal’s mother went into an early But it is only through the telling of her gravely ill, to a hospital.