Project Shakespeare to present ‘The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane’

Project Shakespeare will present “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane” by Kate DiCamillo, adapted and directed by Deborah Shakespeare Thurber, Sunday, April 21, at 4 p.m. at the First Congregational Church, 6 Payson Hill Road in Rindge.

Once in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself; he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and adored him completely. And then, one day, he was lost.   

DiCamillo takes viewers on a journey from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the top of a garbage heap to the fireside of a hobo camp, from the bedside of an ailing child to the bustling streets of Memphis. And along the way, the audience sees that even a heart of the most unbreakable kind can learn to love, to lose and to love again.

This performance will be the culmination of a Project Shakespeare program called One Play in One Week. Students join together to rehearse, stage and perform the play in one week’s time. The cast includes Margaret Bennett, Leila Burk, Alexandra Concordia, William Concordia, Lachlan Linn-Boggs, Tess Geana, Eliza Hammer, Madelyn Hammer, Clover Heinzmann, Rye Heinzmann, Lillianna Helsel, Eleanora Kishinevsky, Ariella Leifer, Abigail McKibben, Aislin Murdough, Miranda Pipitone, Amelia Rosbach and Jem Russell.

The production staff includes choreographer Haley Aho, state manager Helen Martynuska and assistant stage manager and sound operator Leo Burk.

Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under and are available a half-hour prior to curtain. For reservations, send email to projectshakespeare@gmail.com. Project Shakespeare is a nonprofit theater education company and all donations are tax-deductible. For information, visit projectshakespeare.org.