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Theatre festival kicks off

Three plays make up UH's summer series for local kids

Cougar News Services

The UH Children's Theatre Festival is under way, and the stars of its first show are a singing wolf and pink goats -- no kidding.

It's the 26th season for the summer festival, which features a series of shows designed to appeal to younger audiences. The opening play, Bren Dubay's The Wolf and the Foolish Kids, deals with a wolf who hopes to make a meal out of a family of goats. The wolf, who raps and sings, bears a resemblance to the pop star Prince.

The frivolity isn't a substitute for quality.

"Every production is treated as if Arthur Miller wrote it," said associate theater professor Carolyn Boone, the director of The Wolf.

The play runs through June 11. Also scheduled for the summer is Aesop's Fables, adapted by the company and directed by Brian Byrnes, which runs June 18 through July 2, and The New Adventures of Pinocchio, written by Sidney Berger and Jerry Bock and directed by Chelsey Krohn, slated for July 16 through Aug. 1.

For showtimes and ticket information, visit www.class.uh.edu/theatre/performance/ctf.htm or call the School of Theatre box office at (713) 743-2929.
 

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