Meet The Mad Hatters Of Sun City Texas

Written By Admin on Selasa, 28 Januari 2014 | 01.43

By Ernesto Berturand


The residents of Sun City Texas are habitual volunteers. The amount of volunteerism in the Georgetown community that comes from the labors of Sun City Texas residents is enormous.

Amongst the most interesting groups of volunteers could possibly be the Mad Hatters whose members are part of the Actors and Theater Arts Guild chartered club. This particular small group of performers read and additionally enact traditional fairy tales for their audiences. The viewers are generally pre-kindergarten age young children in Head Start curriculum, Georgetown ISD primary schools, preschools and Alzheimer's patients. The performing artists are viewed by roughly five thousand boys and girls each and every year and many young children remember the Mad Hatters from prior months or even years and greet all of them with delight.

The Mad Hatters get their name from the costume that each performer wears during a performance. Each Mad Hatter wears plain black clothing and creates their own special hat that depicts the fairy tale and helps each child to focus their attention on the story. If the children see the Mad Hatters' story telling from pre-K to the second grade and hear one story each semester, they will have been exposed to all of the stories by the time they leave second grade.

Although the Mad Hatters remain seated throughout the stories, they make the stories come alive with small props and animated gestures. They also try to rewrite some of the language in the stories to make the tales more contemporary and relatable. When a child knows the original fairy tale by heart, they take great delight in hearing a slightly different version that sounds like their own parents talking. So when the Mama Bear of "goldilocks and the three bears" says to Papa Bear when he complains that his porridge is too cold, "Oh Papa Bear, I don't know how to use this new microwave oven!" the kids roar with laughter.

The Mad Hatters have served the area in excess of ten years. The performers virtually all claim that they attain more than they give and absolutely adore their work. As a part of the Actors & Theater Arts Guild, the members also take part in the once a year variety show of music, dance and comedy routines and full-length comedy and drama performances at Sun City Texas.




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