SUMMER 2024
Triton Tries to Take Today
Ancient Greek mermaids and mermen had tails in the ocean but legs on land. What if a divine merman named Triton – or merboy since he’s 12 – decided he hated having a tail, so he hatched a plan to make the ocean unsalty and never have a tail again? And what if his sister Kymopolia, a divine mermaid, thought her brother’s idea was terrible, because melting the poles will mean really bad things will happen around the world, changing the future for humans everywhere? And what if a girl named Sophia from 21st Century Turlock had the power to make Triton see things differently?
Triton Tries to Take Today is an adventure across time, as Tri does all he can to not have a tail, and Ky does all she can to stop him.
Through the play, we learn about drought, climate change, flooding, and the threat to the food chain due to changes in the sea and on land.
Triton Tries to Take Today
Play by Yokanaan Kearns
Directed by Ileana Ramirez
[About the Director - Ileana Ramirez]
[Dramaturg's Notes & Artistic Director's Statement - Stefani Tsai]
Show Dates and Times:
Friday, June 21 @ 7 p.m.
Saturday, June 22 @ 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Sunday, June 23 @ 2 p.m.
Location:
McVey Loft at Carnegie Arts Center, Turlock
Ticket Prices:
FREE* (made possible with grant from the Heartland Creative Corp.)
CAST
Carlos Peña - Triton
Guadalupe Yepez - Kymopolia, Sophia, Farmer, Merchant, Young Mother, Boreas
SPRING 2024
Little Red Robin Hood
Little Red Riding Hood was known as saying to the Big Bad Wolf, “Ooh, what big eyes you have!” But Red’s eyes are pretty big too, and in Little Red Robin Hood, a new take on an old tale, Red’s eyes are now wide open— to injustice! Yes, Grandma had to work from home during COVID and took over Little Red’s bedroom as an office and Red’s not too happy about it! On top of that Grandma’s new boyfriend is none other than one Mr. Wolf. Having had enough, Red has recreated herself into “Little Red ROBIN Hood”: social justice warrior! So when she sees books pulled from her neighborhood library she recruits local homeless vet (Little) John on an odyssey you have to see to believe. It’s humor, songs and pandemonium in the city of Sherwood Forrest as one little girl becomes a legendary bandit and changes history!
Little Red RobinHood
Play by Nick Zagone
Directed by Ileana Ramirez
[About the Director - Ileana Ramirez]
[Dramaturg's Notes & Artistic Director's Statement - Stefani Tsai]
Show Dates and Times:
Friday, March 22 @ 7 p.m.
Saturday, March 23 @ 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Sunday, March 24 @ 2 p.m.
ASL Interpreted Performance: Sunday, March 24 @ 2 p.m.
Location:
McVey Loft at Carnegie Arts Center, Turlock
Ticket Prices:
FREE* (made possible with grant from the Heartland Creative Corp.)
CAST
Ron Daily - Librarian Todd, John, Friar Tuck, Mr. Wolf
Sarah Wiseman - Red, Dr. Huckleberry
The Heartland Grant
*The 2024 Season Made Possible by the Heartland Creative Corps Grant
LightBox Theatre Company is pleased to announce that, for its 2024 season, it will produce two shows to be presented free of admission to the public and children — thanks to a grant from the Heartland Creative Corp.
The Heartland Creative Corps is a grant program designed to provide funding to individual artists and culture bearers and arts and social service organizations in a three-country area. Though United Way of Merced County as the administering organization, Merced County Arts Council, Stanislaus Arts Council and Tuolumne County Arts awarded more than $4.2 million to grant recipients.