Adapted by Todd Espeland from Robert Louis Stevenson
Traveling Players Studio
Recommended for audiences ages 8+
60 min | Tickets: $16 online, $20 at the door
An adaptation of the classic novel Treasure Island, this production features Jim Hawkins, a courageous youth who dreams of adventure outside of the Benbow Inn. The closest adventures he gets are the seafaring tales from one of the Inn's guests, Billie Bones. One fateful evening, Bones is given the Black Spot, a pirate death sentence. Seizing his moment, Jim escapes with a treasure map that belonged to Bones amid a pirate brawl in the Inn. Then Jim gathers a crew and sets sail for Treasure Island! Only this crew of "honest sailors" seems to be less than trustworthy. Perhaps even a little... scurvy?
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Adapted by Sarah Ruhl from Virginia Woolf
Traveling Players Studio
Recommended for audiences ages 10+
90 min | Tickets: $16 online, $20 at the door
In Sarah Ruhl's vibrant adaptation of Virginia Woolf's classic novel, we witness a young nobleman of the 16th-century journey through time and go through the pangs of love and heartbreak, delve into his poetic imagination, and dream of adventures beyond the court of London. On a fateful night, two hundred years later, Orlando wakes up as a woman!
What begins as a story about a naive and ambitious young man transitions into an exploration of time, history, and the paths we navigate in this journey we call life. Every person we encounter informs the story of our lives; Woolf seemed intent on asking— what if that life lasted for four hundred years? Who would we be?
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Based on the Story by Charles Dickens
Traveling Players Studio
Ages 8+ | 90 min | Tickets: $16 online, $20 at the door
Ebenezer Scrooge is an excellent man of business. He cares a lot about money – but very little for his fellow man. This miserly banker categorically shuns charity, compassion, and cheer. Enter a terrifying ghost on Christmas Eve! Jacob Marley (dead for 7 years) visits Scrooge, his old business partner with a warning: Mankind is your business! Change your ways or suffer forever! You will wear the chains of a life misspent, as I do!
At Marley’s behest, three spirits take Scrooge on an unforgettable journey into his Past, Present, and Future, laying out his life in front of him. Once Scrooge can see what adds up to a life well spent, can he alter his ways, and therefore his fate? Perhaps Tiny Tim, the son of his office clerk, can change his heart.
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by Moliere
Traveling Players Studio
Ages 8+ | 60 min | Tickets: $16 online, $20 at the door
The illustrious poet Trissotan has come to stay with the lady Philamente and her family - and with him, he's brought all the good things in life: learning, knowledge, panache, and style. So what if he's also a treacherous, self-serving scoundrel? Will Philamente's long-suffering family unmask the fraud before it's too late? Or will Trissotan get away with Philamente's money, savings - and even her daughter's hand in marriage?
by William Shakespeare
Touring July 24 – July 31
Ages 10+ | 2.5 hours, plus 15 min intermission
Prince Hamlet is a reluctant hero with impossible choices. Returning home after his father's death, Hamlet is unsettled by his mother's speedy remarriage to his uncle. When the ghost of Hamlet's father appears and reveals that he was murdered by the man who now wears his crown. The ghost commands Hamlet to murder Claudius in revenge. But can you trust a ghost? Hamlet fakes madness while searching for the truth. He's surrounded by faithful friends (or are they friendly spies?), an anguished court, and a troupe of oddly relevant actors. This revenge tragedy brims with intrigue, trickery, heartache, and more than a little humor.
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by William Shakespeare
The Plaza at Tysons Corner Center
July 11 & August 1
7 pm | Ages 10+ | 75 min
Free*
Shakespeare’s tale of lovers who evade parental rule and city law by escaping into the forest, only to be transformed by mischievous fairies. Reality and illusion interchange in the woods, as do love and hate, clarity and confusion. As the tricks are reversed and the couples reunite, we delight in their wedding entertainment provided by a set of amateur actors.
The Plaza at Tysons Corner Center
July 11
4 pm | Ages 6+ | 45 min
Free*
Traveling Players' Comedy Intensive will open our summer festival with a one of a kind performance - never seen before, and never seen again - complete with suggestions from the audience!
Traveling Players Studio
July 26
1 pm | Ages 6+ | 30 min
Tickets: $15
Traveling Players' Comedy Ensemble will present a one of a kind performance - never seen before, and never seen again - complete with suggestions from the audience!
by Moliere
The Plaza at Tysons Corner Center
July 11 & August 1
5 pm | Ages 6+ | 45 min
Free*
The illustrious poet Trissotan has come to stay with the lady Philamente and her family - and with him, he's brought all the good things in life: learning, knowledge, panache, and style. So what if he's also a treacherous, self-serving scoundrel? Will Philamente's long-suffering family unmask the fraud before it's too late? Or will Trissotan get away with Philamente's money, savings - and even her daughter's hand in marriage?
Traveling Players Studio
Tysons Corner Center – D1L
1961 Chain Bridge Road, Tysons, VA 22102
P.O. Box 1315
Great Falls, VA 22066
