The University of North Carolina at Pembroke's Summer Theatre Workshop returns July 15,16,17 to Roanoke Island Festival Park’s Indoor Theatre with Mark Twain's classic “Huck Finn's Story”. The production will be held at 10:30 a.m. and is an adventure tale of excitement and suspense, delightfully sprinkled with home-spun humor, alive with colorful characters and sparkling dialog in rural dialect.
The play reveals Huck, a clever, lovable boy whose conscience troubles him about what is right and what is wrong during his long journey down the Mississippi, a journey in which he “grows up”. Tickets are $5 and may be purchased in advance at Ticket Sales at Roanoke Island Festival Park or the day of the event. Ages 5 and under are free. This production is sponsored, in part, by Friends of Elizabeth II. Visit roanokeisland.com for more information.
The Theatre Program at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke offers intensive courses for students wanting professional careers in theatre arts. They boast a world- class professional and academic faculty with decades of experience in professional Theatre/Film/Television acting, theatre directing, and theatre design. The Givens Performing Arts Center was recently ranked among the 25 most amazing performing arts centers in the nation.
In addition, the Showcase Studio Theatre is a wonderfully intimate “black box” space, designed specifically for students to create their own projects. This new initiative called “SHOWCASE” offers a space where students can act, direct, and design their own shows with their own budgets, funded and mentored by the Theatre Arts Department. This is in addition to their fully produced main stage season of plays, dance concerts, and musicals on the Givens Performing Arts Center stage. For more information, visit http://www.uncp.edu.