OF MICE AND MEN - Part 3, Sunday, February 5th at 11am pst

Dreams meet and collide with tragic consequences, as Steinbeck's masterwork draws to its inevitable ending. John Steinbeck's original novella text concludes, live in voice. 

“Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head.”  

~ the character Crooks, from Of Mice and Men

Corwyn Allen, Kayden Oconnell, and Caledonia Skytower, live in voice.

NOTE: Original text includes some language appropriate to the time and place for which the story was written - including racial slurs and cursing. Part 3 of 3.

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OF MICE AND MEN - Part 2, Tuesday, January 31st at 7PM pst

Seanchai Library continues John Steinbeck's original novella text, live in voice. George and Lennie find work on a ranch in the Salinas Valley (CA) and fellow souls who share their dream of owning a little place all their own.  

"we’ll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens. And when it rains in the winter, we’ll just say the hell with goin’ to work, and we’ll build up a fire in the stove and set around it an’ listen to the rain comin’ down on the roof—”

But they also encounter trouble . . . 

Shandon Loring, Corwyn Allen, Kayden Oconnell, and Caledonia Skytower, live in voice.
NOTE: Original text includes some language appropriate to the time and place for which the story was written - including racial slurs and cursing. Part 2 of 3.

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Also in voice at our main Library in Second Life http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bradley%20University/101/208/28

OF MICE AND MEN - Part 1 Saturday, January 28th at NOON pst

"A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool."

Seanchai Library presents John Steinbeck's original novella text, live in voice. Join us at the central fire circle area located in the heart of the Steinbeck Ranch, as we meet George Milton Lennie Small - two "bindle stiffs" (itinerant farm workers) with desperate dreams of a better life where they will "live off the fatta the land."

"We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don’t have to sit-in no bar room blowin’ in our jack jus’ because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us.”

Corwyn Allen, Kayden Oconnell, and Caledonia Skytower, live in voice.
NOTE: Original text includes some language appropriate to the time and place for which the story was written - including racial slurs and cursing. Part 1 of 3.

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Virtual Library and Real World Theatre Company Continue Partnership to Enhance Audience Opportunity

Entrance to "The World of John Steinbeck" from the EXPLORE Welcome Center

The Kitely Grid & Tacoma, WA – On Friday, January 20 the curtain rises on Tacoma Little Theatre's latest production, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.  That same day the pixels click to life for the newest partnership between Tacoma Little Theatre and Seanchai Library with the opening of Explore: The World of John Steinbeck. This is the third collaboration between the 98 year old theatre company and 8 year old online spoken word library, expanding opportunities for audience members and educators to delve into the thoughts behind the play. .

EXPLORE is an online tool designed to add to the play-going experience of audience members by presenting source material and related information to support the production in an engaging, interactive format. The World of John Steinbeck can be accessed online with the download of a free viewing program 24/7.  Patrons can walk through the world of Steinbeck’s novella, exploring freely, using an avatar. Clickable information links guide visitors to a variety of information ranging from biographical, to historical and cultural.  Live presentations of the source text and Steinbeck's letters provide additional opportunities to gain understanding of the playwright and the world in which the play was created.

"This continues to be an exciting and enlightening process," shared Chris Serface, Tacoma Little Theatre Managing Artistic Director, "Being on the ground level of innovation like this means we are learning something new every time we do a project."  The current EXPLORE project was preceded by Anton Chekov and the Absurd  in 2016, and The Great Gatsby Online in 2015.