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The Appalachian Center for the Arts presents Charlotte’s Webb, March 17 through 28, 2020, located in downtown Pikeville, Kentucky. Student matinees are 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. March 17-28. The Children’s Literature Association named this “the best American children’s book of the past two hundred years”. Wilbur, the irresistible young pig; Fern, a girl who understands what animals say to each other; Templeton, the gluttonous rat; the Zuckerman family; and, most of all, the extraordinary spider, Charlotte. This is a beautiful, knowing play about the power friendship.
Charlotte’s Webb Ticket Details
Tickets for all student matinees are $8.00 for students. One teacher/chaperone ticket will be complimentary for every 20 paid students. Tickets for bus drivers will be complimentary. Pre-packaged concessions are also available. If you have any questions or would like to arrange for your students to attend one of our student matinees, please fill out the form below and a team member from The Appalachian Center for the Arts will contact you with in 1-2 business days.
Abigail Bailey Maupin works regularly with Kentucky Shakespeare, where she has taken on a wide swath of roles, including Lady Macbeth, Beatrice, Kate, Olivia, Gertrude, and Speed, among others, and had the great honor of traveling to Stratford-upon-Avon with a small contingent from the company to perform at Shakespeare’s birthplace and on the BBC for the anniversary celebration in 2016. She and her husband Greg co-founded Le Petomane Theatre Ensemble, with whom she created/performed in over twenty plays; some favorites: the title role in Molière’s Don Juan, a country music-singing Emily Dickinson, Mrs. Judy Punch, Twelfth Night’s Viola, the sidekick to both a superhero and a supervillain, and a faded Southern belle incarnation of Death named Blanche DuNoir.
Gregory Maupin is text coach/dramaturg and an actor for Kentucky Shakespeare. He and his wife Abigail are weird Prohibition ukulele duo Rannygazoo, co-wrote a play for young audiences, The Glorious Adventures of the Mighty Robin Hood, and narrate audiobooks for the American Printing House for the Blind. In 2004 they co-founded Le Petomane Theatre Ensemble, as part of which he co-created something like twenty productions, designed and built dozens of commedia masks, adapted three Shakespeares and a Moliere, and portrayed a melodramatic supervillain, a scientific North Pole elf, sort-of-Ebenezer-Scrooge-but-really-Hunter-S.-Thompson, a record store dude, and Thomas Edison, among many others. He is also a charter member of Brooklyn’s Under the Table Ensemble, a graduate of Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre, and has degrees in English and Theatre from the University of Louisville. He dedicates this performance to the late Kathi E.B. Ellis, who directed him in Love Letters when he was too young to know any better.