![]() ![]() Through the Wells Fargo Arts-in-Education Grant, awarded by the Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, Peppercorn Theatre at Kaleideum was able to bring the play’s early research to Mineral Springs Middle, where Dramaturg Claire Simpson lead 20 seventh graders through Peppercorn’s Young Dramaturgs program. Through interviews and research about the area came the story of children in a changing neighborhood who bond around the one thing that seems to be a constant in their lives, the home base for their evolving imaginative game - a tree. Playwright Kimberly Belflower, a recent graduate of the Playwrighting Master’s program at The University of Texas – Austin, began her writing process by consulting with local educators Peter Wilbur of the Arts Based School and Nathan Ross Freedman of Authoring Action. The play will open on Friday, June 16, and run through Sunday, July 2, at the Delta Arts Center, located at 2611 New Walkertown Road in Winston-Salem. For three misfit kids who live down the street, it’s the only way they can escape who and where they are …” So begins the synopsis of a new play, The Sky Game, commissioned by Peppercorn Theatre at Kaleideum as part of an initiative to depict adventures that reflect the local community. “ A magical tree grows on the edge of a changing neighborhood and holds entire worlds inside its bark.
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