Local Middle Schoolers and Adult Mentors Star in Six Stories Up at the Zoo

Six middle school students visit the Wienerbury Zoo, a sanctuary for animals with differences: a dwarf giraffe, a vegan lion and a wolf who can’t howl among others. When they find out the zoo is closing because of federal funding cuts they must find a way to keep it open. This lively show features original songs and score, innovative choreography and fanciful masks.

Tellin' Tales Theatre presents Six Stories Up At The Zoo is the result of an annual mentoring program between middle school students with and without disabilities and adult theater mentors now in its 28th year.

View the photos to see our splendid cast of middle school apprentices and their adult mentors. The players come from Chicago, the suburbs and Hobart, Indiana.

November 14, 15, 16 and 21, 22, 23
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 pm
Sundays at 2 pm
(Sign language interpretation and audio description available on Sunday November 16)

General Admission: $20 (plus ticket fee)
Students and People with Disabilities: $10 (plus ticket fee)
Family: $45 (plus ticket fee)

Filament Theater
4041 N. Milwaukee
Chicago

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https://www.simpletix.com/e/six-stories-up-at-the-zoo-tickets-240643

About Six Stories Up

Six Stories Up at the Zoo is the final product of an annual mentoring program developed by Tellin' Tales Theatre, now in its twenty-eighth year. In August, storytellers were paired with middle school students with and without disabilities. Each team was given the mission to write a scene about how their personal difference relates to that of one of the animals. In September, mentors and their apprentices came together to share their scenes. Tekki Lomnicki and Steve Donart then linked the six vignettes and drafted a final script. All participants will perform Six Stories up at the Zoo under the direction of Artistic Director Tekki Lomnicki, assisted by Marlana Carlson.

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