Digging Up Arkansas is a fun, educational play performed and produced by Trike Theatre of Bentonville in partnership with Walton Arts Center that uses artifacts, songs, stories, and student participation to teach Arkansas history from the year 1000-1936.
Jules, Jaddy, and Justine are writers for the Works Progress Administration who have been assigned to put together the history of Arkansas for a presentation to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. En route, a mishap mixes up the crates containing all of their notes and artifacts. Can you help the actors sort out the items – ranging from replicas of Caddo and Quapaw pottery to vinyl record albums – and return them to their proper crates?
Through theater, children are introduced to a rich story of Arkansas history that they not only care about but remember, with four cornerstones to help guide them along the way:
1. Communication - how the earliest visitors to the state had to learn to communicate with the native residents
2. Cooperation - how they worked together to help Arkansas to grow and prosper
3. Courage - for example, how brother fought brother during the Civil War
4. Culture - how roads, schools, and electricity changed life in Arkansas
This production inspires life-long learners who ask questions about the past, seek their own answers, and use those answers to create a beautiful future.
Digging Up Arkansas comes to Walton Arts Center’s Starr Theater for two performances on Saturday, Jan. 29. Tickets are just $10 for children and $15 for adults. Buy tickets now by clicking here!
