GreatWorks Theatre Company

LEGEND OF
SLEEPY HOLLOW
An inventive take on a classic story. Fast and funny, this is a great choice for K-6 schools, libraries, summer camps and civic centers. More info>>>

THE MONEY SHOW!
Everything you could possibly want to know about one of the most important subjects of all. Smart fun for 2nd to 7th graders. More info>>>

A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Our updating of the Dickens classic has been leaving them laughing for over 10 years. Fun all-school assembly show, and a great all-ages show for kids from 1 to 92. More info>>>

THE FREEDOM CODE
A Chicago teacher and her student walk out of school one day and are transported back to 1850s Missouri - a slave state! They’re quickly taken under the wing of a slave family and taught the songs, markings, and patchwork quilts they'll need to know to find their way home on the Underground Railroad. More info>>>

EUREKA!
The International Science Hall of Fame is meeting to elect the single most important invention or discovery of all time. Each of the nominees will have to present themselves and explain WHY their idea or invention made a difference. Your students will meet Archimedes, Gallileo, Newton, Einstein, and Edison, along with several other very big brains. Available for tour starting in March, 2012. More info>>>

50 STATES IN
60 MINUTES
Hold on to your hat for this breakneck tour through 500 years of America’s story! Columbus, the Pilgrims, the Salem Witch Trials, the founding of the Republic - and everything since then gets covered in one energetic fun-filled hour. Designed for students grades 3rd to 8th, and available for tour year-round. More info>>>

CHICAGO: A CULTURAL MOSAIC
The history of Chicago through the eyes of the Irish, African American, Polish, and Mexican families who came here and made Chicago great.Each group's story has its own style and tone, with a variety of storytelling and theatre techniques that mirror the diversity and energy of the city itself. Designed for students 3rd to 8th grades. More info>>>

THE BFG
When orphan Sophie is snatched from her bed by a Giant, she fears that he’s going to eat her. But although he carries her far away to Giant Country, the Giant has no intention of harming her. He is THE BIG FRIENDLY GIANT! Together, they'll have to come up with a plan to defeat the other nasty giants and save the children of England from getting eaten like popcorn. Adapted from the Roald Dahl book, and designed for students grades K-5. More info>>>

THE GIVER
In a utopian community where “love” , “choices”, and “pain” are things of the past, the time has come for 12-year-old Jonas to become the new Receiver of Memory, the one to bear the collective memories of a society where “Sameness” is the rule. He eventually discovers the lie that his community is built on, and decides to rescue himself and Gabriel, the new child trusted to his care. Based on the prize-winning book by Lois Lowry. For students 5th grade and up only More info>>>

TUBMAN:
ROAD TO FREEDOM
The life-history of one of America’s greatest heroes, from her girlhood in slavery to her role as the leading light of the Underground Railroad.Harriet faces every danger and overcomes every obstacle with courage, grace, and faith that her struggle is the struggle of all people to be free. More info>>>

FRACTURED
FAIRY TALES
A new version of our popular all-ages show! Jack and the Beanstalk, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Henny Penny, The Tortoise and the Hare, and three other stories get the Chicago-style improv treatment in this wild and wacky show The all-female cast has a great time sending up some of the cliches and conventions of the stories we all grew up hearing. Great for K-8 audiences as well as libraries, camps and civic centers. .More info>>>

THE ODDYSEY
A group of American GIs sit around a campfire in Afghanistan, talking about home. One of them
tries to break the mood by telling them of another warrior who wanted to get home, and within a few minutes, the group have become part of his “odd” story, playing the Sirens, Cyclops, and witches that bedeviled Odysseus on his way home. This very contemporary version of Homer’s classic is geared to grades 5th & up, and will be available for tour year-round starting in late April, 2012. More info>>>

ANNE FRANK:
thinking myself out
Anne Frank's life is celebrated by a multi-ethnic cast of survivors from other ethnic cleansings, each of whom survived their ordeals by embracing Anne's philosophy of "thinking themselves out" of their situations. The on-stage characters who portray the figures in Anne's diary come from a variety of eras and conflicts. They include survivors of the Armenian genocide in 1915, the Bosnian civil war of the 1990s, the and the ethnic cleansing in Rwanda. For students 5th grade and up only. More info>>>