Children’s Theatre Workshop presents Legend of Pocahontas, Dec. 3

The Children’s Theatre Workshop presents the Legend of Pocahontas Dec. 3, 2011.  Its talented actors, children from Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan ages 5-18, will entertain children and adults with their dramatization in this re-telling of the classic legend about North America’s growth. 

Pocahontas (c. 1595 – 1617, later known as Rebecca Rolfe) means “She-Who-Likes-To-Be-Mischievous” and this Native-American princess enjoys playing tricks and games with her forest playmates. Along the way, she encounters the struggling English settlers of Jamestown, Virginia. They have no food and sickness has almost wiped them out. Pocahontas saves Captain John Smith’s life, and finds a way for the Native Americans and the English settlers to live in harmony.

Public performances are on Saturday, December 3, 2011, 1:00PM and 3:30PM. The Children’s Theatre Workshop’s production of The Legend of Pocahontas will take place at the Lois M. Nelson Theater for the Performing Arts at the Collingwood Arts Center, 2413 Collingwood Blvd., Toledo, Ohio 43620.

Tickets are $5.00 for students and seniors and $7.00 for adults.  Tickets are available at the door or by calling the Children’s Theatre Workshop at 419/244-5061.

For more information on The Legend of Pocahontas or the Children’s Theatre Workshop, visit Children’s Theatre Workshop (Toledo) on Face Book, or www.childrenstheaterworkshop.org

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