Peace Child Israel's Season Performances

2010 Season

THE LITTLE PRINCE

Nazareth and Yagur Leadership Troupe

The Group Process 

The group consists of two schools which have  been implementing the “Du-Drama” program for four consecutive years:  Galilee School, Nazareth and the Carmel-Zevulun School in Yagur.

The recruitment of the group in Yagur was slow-going this year, and there was a mixture of 9^th and 10^th grade students.  The recruitment and audition in Nazareth was more enthusiastic.  The group met weekly since the beginning of October and went on a team-building seminar for 3 days in November.    They attended the field trip to the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center in December 2009 and began adapting the classic French script to make it relevant for Arab and Jewish youth.  There was an initial resistance to the script and it took quite awhile for the group to see the pearl and wisdom of the text as something that was relevant for the here-and-now of the group itself.  Nurit Parente and Raida Hasson, the group facilitators, worked diligently to further enhance the adaptation with content that emerged from the group experience by creating a “choir of the people”,  a take-off of the classic Greek Chorus.  A new character, the “Navigator” was played by both Hebrew and Arabic-speaking actors.  The role of The Little prince” was also assigned to 6 different actors, 3 Arab and 3 Jewish. 

 Synopsis

The Little Prince travels from location to location to meet characters and personalities with social and historical narratives that puzzle him as he travels.  He doesn’t understand the seemingly destructive behavior he meets on each star.    The story proceeds and includes new situations, including Jewish and Arabic stories that challenge The Little Prince with more questions than ever before.

The Little Prince-Invitation

Little Prince - Collage Poster