Dan Jones and Chava Rey Curland
The Halloween Tree
The Southern Theater is proud to present our final Performance Partnership Program of the '23-'24 season!
Performance Dates:
Sunday, Oct 20 at 2pm (1pm doors, 1:30 pm house)*
Wednesday, Oct 23 at 7pm (6pm doors, 6:30 pm house)
Thursday, Oct 24 at 7pm (6 pm doors, 6:30 pm house)
Friday, Oct 25 at 7pm (6 pm doors, 6:30 pm house)**
Saturday, Oct 26 at 2pm (1 pm doors, 1:30 pm house)***
Saturday, Oct 26 at 7pm (6 pm doors, 6:30 house)
Sunday, Oct 27 at 2pm (1pm doors, 1:30 pm house)
*Preview performance, pay-what-you-can
**Lobby reception following performance
***Pay-what-you-can performance
Performance Length: 90 minutes
THE HALLOWEEN TREE
A Theatrical Adventure
A new play by Dan Jones
Based upon the novel by Ray Bradbury
Directed by Chava Rey Curland
World Premiere!
On Halloween night, a group of trick-or-treaters must go on an epic adventure through time and space to save their friend from a mysterious force. Ray Bradbury’s timeless story of friendship, mortality, and wonder comes to life through the magic of live story theater, puppetry, and shadow. A rollicking trick and spectacular treat for young and old alike.
THE HALLOWEEN TREE (c) 1972 by Ray Bradbury. Performed and adapted with the permission of Ray Bradbury Literary Works, LLC and Don Congdon Associates, Inc. Developed as part of New Victory LabWorks at The New Victory Theater in New York City.
Dan Jones (Playwright / Puppet & Scenic Designer) is a Queens-based puppetry artist, writer, and multi-disciplinary theater maker who has worked with companies including the American Repertory Theatre, Center for Puppetry Arts, Everyman Theatre, Nick Jr, the NYU Experimental Theatre Wing, New Victory LabWorks, Playwrights Horizons, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Off the Page, the Public Theater/Shakespeare in the Park, Asheville Creative Arts, Second City New York, Geva Theatre Center, Mabou Mines, and many more — including seven wild summers with Minneapolis’ popular Adventures in Cardboard program. Dan specializes in using wastestream materials to create immersive and big-hearted narrative spectacles, inviting audiences to see both everyday objects and the natural world with new eyes.
Chava Rey Curland (Director) is a Twin Cities-based director and filmmaker. She has worked locally with the Children's Theater Company, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater, Open Eye Figure Theater, Theater Latte Da, Park Square Theater, among others, and she is the Producing Artistic Director of See-Saw Theatre Lab. Her two favorite Halloween costumes as a kid were a devil onesie and Catwoman.
The Halloween Tree is suggested for audiences of all ages 8 and up. It contains sequences of peril, simulated lightning flashes, and moments of visual darkness.