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Community Family Players
A need for positive activities in this community for our youth is self evident.
There is a great void of places for our younger folks to belong, to have fun, to imagine and
create, to dare to do new things, to interact with adults, to learn and grow and to work to
give to the community. And to get positive responses from the community.
Riviera UCC has designed Community Family Players to help to begin to fill this void. Our
debut production was Alice in Wonderland in the summer of 2009. The plays are directed
by our pastor Rev. Scott Elliott who has years of theatre experience including directing
musicals and Leading a similar group in Oregon for over half a dozen years. Community
Family Players will continue to provide wholesome theatre productions in a manner that
provides the opportunities for families to work together and for youth to shine on stage
while entertaining folks of all ages in the process.
The cast and crew of each production will include a mix of adults and youth from
throughout the community-with the youth generally out numbering adult performers three
to one. The presence of adult performers is to provide in-cast teachers and positive role
models for the youth, as well as to legitimize the production as "real" theatre in the eyes of
the audience.
Perhaps more importantly, the presence of youth and adults in the cast and crew is to
provide the opportunity for family and community members to work and play together
outside the home.
Community Family Players is operated and sponsored by our Church. While we have no
plans to provide scripted doctrinal messages about life, or religion, or spirituality; we do
want the youth to receive one over-riding message: that there is a lot of good in the world
and, a lot of people who care about them. It is our intent and hope that our actions will not
only provide theatre skills and experiences, but give clear resounding messages of love
and compassion, of respect and charity, of hope and joy, and of community commitment to
positive growth in all of us.
We plan to do this by providing community family theatre experiences on and off stage,
and for the audiences. This summer, we are producing, A Midsummer Night's Dream by
William Shakespeare. Auditions will be open to all youth aged 12-20.
In the Gospel of Mark at chapter 9 verses 36 to 37 we are told that Jesus took a child and
had her stand in front of the twelve disciples and Jesus put his arms around her and said
to the disciples "Whoever accepts a child like this in my name is accepting me." This offers
a perfect image of what Community Family Players is all about.
To put children in front of a friendly audience with a warm and supportive embrace.
This is a heavenly project, designed to help those most close to heaven, our children.
A need for positive activities in this community for our youth is self evident.
There is a great void of places for our younger folks to belong, to have fun, to imagine and
create, to dare to do new things, to interact with adults, to learn and grow and to work to
give to the community. And to get positive responses from the community.
Riviera UCC has designed Community Family Players to help to begin to fill this void. Our
debut production was Alice in Wonderland in the summer of 2009. The plays are directed
by our pastor Rev. Scott Elliott who has years of theatre experience including directing
musicals and Leading a similar group in Oregon for over half a dozen years. Community
Family Players will continue to provide wholesome theatre productions in a manner that
provides the opportunities for families to work together and for youth to shine on stage
while entertaining folks of all ages in the process.
The cast and crew of each production will include a mix of adults and youth from
throughout the community-with the youth generally out numbering adult performers three
to one. The presence of adult performers is to provide in-cast teachers and positive role
models for the youth, as well as to legitimize the production as "real" theatre in the eyes of
the audience.
Perhaps more importantly, the presence of youth and adults in the cast and crew is to
provide the opportunity for family and community members to work and play together
outside the home.
Community Family Players is operated and sponsored by our Church. While we have no
plans to provide scripted doctrinal messages about life, or religion, or spirituality; we do
want the youth to receive one over-riding message: that there is a lot of good in the world
and, a lot of people who care about them. It is our intent and hope that our actions will not
only provide theatre skills and experiences, but give clear resounding messages of love
and compassion, of respect and charity, of hope and joy, and of community commitment to
positive growth in all of us.
We plan to do this by providing community family theatre experiences on and off stage,
and for the audiences. This summer, we are producing, A Midsummer Night's Dream by
William Shakespeare. Auditions will be open to all youth aged 12-20.
In the Gospel of Mark at chapter 9 verses 36 to 37 we are told that Jesus took a child and
had her stand in front of the twelve disciples and Jesus put his arms around her and said
to the disciples "Whoever accepts a child like this in my name is accepting me." This offers
a perfect image of what Community Family Players is all about.
To put children in front of a friendly audience with a warm and supportive embrace.
This is a heavenly project, designed to help those most close to heaven, our children.
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