Touring

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A THOUSAND CRANES

by Kathryn Schultz Miller
based on the book by Eleanor Coer   Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes

South Carolina Children's Theatre brings a touring show to YOUR school that helps reinforce Social Studies curriculum with the poignant and real-life story of Sadako, a twelve year old girl living in Hiroshima, Japan in 1955. She is a typical optimistic and excitable pre-teen who develops leukemia ten years after being exposed to the radiation from the atomic bomb.  She undertakes to fold 1000 origami paper cranes in order to receive her wish to get better, but succumbs to the illness having completed 644. Her classmates and other school children finish folding the cranes and also build a monument to her and all the children affected by the bomb that stands in the Hiroshima Peace Park.  To honor her memory still today, school children from around the world send thousands of paper cranes as a continued prayer for Peace in the World.
 
As part of our mission to connect education and outreach to theatre production, this show will be performed by three members of our Theatre Arts Conservatory.  Advanced-level teens will make the performance even more memorable for your student audience by making the possibility of doing theatre completely accessible.  We ARE totally professional and delightfully immature and have the highest performance standards for our young performers.  Let us use theatre to support your teaching!

Suitable for Upper Elementary and Middle School
One performance for up to 250 students - $400
2nd performance on the same day - $250

(at the same school OR it can be at another school within 10 miles of the 1st performance)

Click download flier for more information or click order form to begin scheduling a performance.

Touring October 2010-March 2011