Rotary presents play, ?Children, Children?
No doubt your children are already begging you to take them to see a play at the Bliss this weekend. Why are they suddenly so interested in something not on TV? Well, perhaps because they’ve heard that a lot of grownups are going to be on the stage kidding around. Here’s Jacqueline Woods with more on “Children, Children.”
Jacqueline Woods, Reporting
If you don?t recognize any cast members, that?s probably because you normally see them in their professional business attire. And while they?d probably never be caught playing around on the job, these Rotarians have been able to remember what it was like to be a child, for a good cause.
Coleen Lewis, Rotarian
?It was amazing. Some people didn?t need very much direction in bringing out the child in them, it just came naturally. So it just cause them to reflect on how they were as a child or a child that they could identify with and they just fell into place.?
The comedy entitled ?Children, Children? is a Rotary Club of Belize production intended to raise money to help children with congenital heart disease through Rotary?s Gift of Life Programme. One hundred Belizean boys and girls have already been assisted. Some of this show?s proceeds will also be donated to the Salvation Army.
Sandra McKay, President-Elect, Rotary Club of Belize
?We are able to send them abroad for the surgery, the heart surgery. We take care of their airfare and the surgery itself is extremely expensive and these are persons who would not otherwise been able to afford that kind of medical care to make the difference between life and death.?
?Well the Salvation Army has been going through some difficult times more recently, and their current captain Major Errol Robateau is a Rotarian himself. And so the club decided that we would want to assist the Salvation Army this year as well.?
?Children, Children? co-director, Coleen Lewis, says rather than recruit real children for the roles, the Rotarians decided it would be far more amusing to have adults act as primary school students.
Coleen Lewis
?It just adds to the humour of it, seeing adults in their school uniforms with baubles in their hair, clips in their hair. The men in their short pants and the pants all the way up to their chests, it just makes it funnier to have adults acting as children.?
?We would like to say a special thanks to NICH because they have been so helpful to us. As you know the actors are Rotarians and Rotaractors, we do not know anything about the stage, so they have been very helpful.?
?Children, Children? will be playing at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts on Friday at 8:00 p.m., and on Sunday at 3:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Jacqueline Woods for News Five.
General Admission to the show is fifteen dollars, while reserve is thirty. Tickets are available at Mala’s, Madisco, Record Shack, the Bliss, or from any Rotarian.
