Name: Summer Drama Camp for kids 1st - 6th Grade
Start: 2024-06-10T14:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-06-20T20:00:00+00:00
Location: Ellis Grace Play Place. Youth Theatre

Description

Join in on the fun

1st-3rd grade camp is June 9-13 (9-11 am) with the theme: Space the Final Frontier. We will be learning about theatre using space themes. We will hold a short program on Friday, June 13th at 10 am.

4th through 6th grade (Incoming 6th graders and outgoing 6th graders) Camp will be two weeks. June 9-13 and June 16-20 (1-3 pm) We will be doing a one act play during this time with auditions, learning parts, memorizing, costumes and sets, etc… Below is a summary of the play. There are 10 girls parts, 4 boy parts and 5 either or. Our play performance will be Friday, June 20th at 2 pm.

Captain Bree, Scourge of the Sea: Captain Jennings’ crew jumps ship, leaving him with only a handful of prisoners and Fergus, a sailor who can’t swim, to protect his wealthy passengers from a pirate attack. Captain Bree and her lady pirates demand gold in exchange for the lives of the pretentious Madam Prescot, her nephew Samuel, who is masquerading as a girl to avoid becoming shark bait and her niece Julia, bursting with desire to join the lady pirates — much to her aunt’s dismay! While waiting for a response from the British, the pirates entertain themselves by teaching Julia the ropes of pirating, such as threatening their prisoners with the plank. But what is in store when a British fleet arrives, set on both hanging the pirates for their deeds and punishing Captain Jennings for not fighting them off more effectively? Your audience will be engaged with laughter and suspense all the way to the exciting surprise ending!

Select the session for your current or incoming grade. Snacks and a t-shirt are included with registration.

Please mark your calendar for a final performance on the last day of your session!

Camps are non-refundable.

Date & Time

Jun 10 - 20, 2025

Venue Details

Ellis Grace Play Place. Youth Theatre

401 New Jersey Avenue
Holton, Kansas 66436

Holton Community Theatre

How we got started

Holton Community Theatre was accidentally founded in 2014. One summer day, Shannon Wittmer and Carolyn McKee felt that the community was missing something. They decided to offer a dinner theatre experience in October of 2014 on the evening after the yearly Holton Fall Fest.

That first play was Cafe’ Murder. It was a horribly written play that was “tweaked” profusely before auditions took place. Originally, this event was created as a one time event, however, the success was so spectacular that another show was scheduled for summer 2015. HCT held their first summer drama camp and produced the all kid musical, The Big Bad Musical. Nunsense followed close behind and soon a theatre Facebook page and website were created out of necessity.

Since that time, Holton Community Theatre has produced six musicals, 13 plays and has held six drama camps. We were able to purchase the empty Central school building in October of 2020 for one dollar thanks to the generosity of the USD 336-Holton School Board. HCT is committed to providing and teaching theatre to Jackson County and surrounding areas.

So whatever happened to Shannon and Carolyn? Well, Shannon directed that first play Cafe’ Murder and became the Creative Director for HCT and Carolyn is a member of the Holton Community Theatre’s Board of Directors. It is impossible to see what the future holds without dreams.

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