Dell’Arte Company presents: In the Land of the Grasshopper Song

November 16 – December 2, 2007
Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM;
Matinee performances on Saturdays and Sundays at 2:30 PM

Magic Theatre (Marina and Buchanan Streets, Ft. Mason Center, Building D, 3rd Floor, SF)

TICKETS: $15 general; $10 child/student/senior

BOX OFFICE: (415) 441-8822 and www.magictheatre.org

AGE APPROPRIATE FOR: 7 and up

Discover what audiences from British Columbia to Philadelphia, PA already know – Dell’Arte Company’s In the Land of the Grasshopper Song is a delightful and captivating production that combines great songs, live music, physical theater, and inventive puppetry with a true story of adventure. It is a perfect outing for the entire family!

“The spirit and originality of this company is, ultimately, irresistible.” Variety

Directed by Michael Fields, In the Land of the Grasshopper Song is a hysterical musical based on the book award-winning true-account book of the same name. Grasshopper Song is a heartwarming story that follows the adventures of two white women who have been dispatched by the United States government in 1908 to be “field matrons” for the Karuk Indian Tribe of Northern California. The play follows the adventures of our heroines, Mary Arnold and Mabel Reed as they travel by horseback, by foot, and in a dugout canoe to reach their destination; a remote place where they were the only white women in a 60-mile stretch of territory. In the process of attempting to “civilize” the Indians, the women are in turn, transformed. After two years of service, they left with profound affection and respect for the people they had lived among.

Don’t miss a minute of Dell’Arte Company’s Bay Area season! This is a wonderful opportunity to experience the company’s “multi-leveled theatrical magic” San Francisco Chronicle; and to have “a soul-satisfying and thought-provoking evening.” New York Times Magazine