Students at Auburn’s Terminal Park Elementary will be getting a creative lesson in bullying prevention this month.
Taproot Theatre’s Road Company will perform the social-issues play, “Alexander and the Dragon”, at 1:30 p.m. Sept. 22. A question-and-answer session will follow the performance.
Now in its 25th year of touring social-issues plays to schools, the Road Company will be spending the season focused on bullying and violence prevention. The plays are guided by some of the leading curricula on the topic.
In addition to teaching students how to respond to bullying, the plays also teach students important lessons aimed at preventing harassment before it even starts.
“Alexander and the Dragon” teaches elementary school students how to identify and respond to bullying
Road Company has been touring dynamic social-issue plays to students throughout the Pacific Northwest since 1985. The Road Company reaches thousands of students each year with productions that address relevant social issues and provide youth with safe steps to approach them.
In addition to the touring productions, Taproot Theatre provides teachers’ guides and resources to facilitate classroom discussion and increase the effectiveness of the message.
Taproot Theatre Company is a professional, non-profit theatre company with a multi-faceted production program.
The Road Company is supported by The Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences, ArtsFund, 4Culture, Washington State Arts Commission, PONCHO and the Fred Meyer Fund.
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ON STAGE
• Play:
• Performance: 1:30 p.m., Sept. 22, Terminal Park Elementary School, 1101 D St. SE, Auburn
• Target audience: Grades K-6
• Synopsis: Being a fifth-grader is even harder than being a knight. When “Sir” Alexander returns to school after a summer of battling make-believe foes, he fails to stand up for the new girl getting bullied on the school bus. He unknowingly allows Maddy (Princess Madeline) to be captured by a “dragon,” and is stripped of his knighthood. Will Alexander conquer the fire-breathing dragon and rescue the princess? Will his heroic quest restore his honor?
• Education goals: Bullying prevention and social skills; recognize, refuse and report; responsibility of a bystander; initiating a friendship; engaging others in conversation; forgiving others.
