Healthy Choices
Written by Tommacina Bell

Grades 5–12

This work introduces five characters, each of whom is dealing with a significant health issue common to our community: HIV-AIDS, obesity and eating disorders, mental health disorders, sexual promiscuity, and drug and alcohol use. This play focuses on healthy lifestyle choices and prevention as central themes.

Commissioned by the Missouri City, TX Chapter Links and donated for use by The Ensemble Theatre PAE Program.

Grades K-8

A fun-packed combination of African-American folklore and American popular culture, Br’er Rabbit is
family entertainment that focuses on the Golden rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

Grades K-8

Mufaro was a happy man.  Everyone agreed that his two daughters were very beautiful.  Nyasha was kind and considerate as well as beautiful, but everyone, except Mufaro, knew that Manyara was selfish, bad-tempered and spoiled.  When the king decided to take a wife and invited “The Most Worthy and Beautiful Daughters in the Land” to appear before him, Mufaro declared proudly that only the king could choose between Nyasha and Manyara.  Manyara, of course, didn’t agree, and set out to make certain that she would be chosen.

Grades 5–12

In 1863, at the height of the American Civil War, President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation declaring freedom for all slaves in the southern states.  Frank Conner and his brother John, colored men with families, who live near Vandalia, Michigan, find themselves weighing the decision to go, or not to go, and fight in the war.  They made a promise to their Aunt Rose who was taken away and sold into slavery.  Will Auntie Rose stay a slave, we’ll just have to wait and see

Grades 5–12

Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, this is the story of one family’s struggle to maintain their integrity, pride and independence in the face of racism and social injustice.  And, too, it is Cassie’s story – Cassie Logan, an independent girl who discovers over the course of an important year why having land of their own is so crucial to the Logan family, even as she learns to draw strength from her own sense of dignity and self-respect.

A Special Four-Day Run will be in The Ensemble Theatre Performance Center:
February 7 - 10, 2012, 10:00am

To Book Now, Contact:
Brenda Wilson
Touring Education Coordinator

Office: 713-807-4317
Fax: 713-520-1269
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Mainstage Tour Education Performances

Special mainstage performances are available for school groups and senior living communities.These performances are usually scheduled on a Wednesday morning at 10:00am

Ballad of Emmett Till Feb 8, 15, 22, 2012

Cuttin ‘Up Mar 28, April 4, 11, 2012

King Hedley II May 16, 23, 30, 2012

Sanctified July 3, 11, 18, 2012