Performance Highlights

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“This year was our fourth year to host the TIGER Program for our school. Each year, you wonder if they can put together a program better than the previous year. Well they have and it was the best one yet! I would recommend hosting this program in your school.”

- K. L. Barbour, Principal, Bessie C. Rowell School.

About

TIGER is proud to be nominated for the 2011 Governors Arts Award in arts and education.

TigerTIGER (Theater Integrating Guidance, Education, and Responsibility) is a powerful and exciting collaboration between the integrated arts and the counselor education graduate programs at Plymouth State University. TIGER is a professional theatre company designed to help children, schools, parents, and communities deal proactively and positively with social issues and concerns facing children in schools today.

Based entirely upon the anonymous writings of New Hampshire school children, a TIGER performance incorporates live actors, puppets, theatre, movement, and music to engage school audiences from K-8. By using childrens’ own words, TIGER enables children to hear their own voices as they step back from the experiences of bullying and the intolerance of individual differences to move into more positive social interactions at school and in their community.

In addition to performances, TIGER offers opportunities for teachers to earn graduate credit for continued study on bullying, diversity issues, and conflict resolution. Special resource materials have been developed to support this three-credit, graduate level experience offered at your school. Staff development credits are also available to schools participating in after-school training workshops.

In the tradition of Plymouth State University’s award-winning ETC (Educational Theatre Collaborative), TIGER offers the very best in theatre for young audiences. TIGER seeks to transform feelings, thoughts, and behavior to help both children and adults envision and understand their own power in resolving the issues of bullying and intolerance facing many students in our schools today.

TIGER has performed at the state level for the New Hampshire Department of Education, regionally for the New England Theatre Conference (NETC), nationally for the American Alliance for Theatre and Education (AATE), and internationally for the National Drama International Conference at Durham University in Durham, England, and the ASSITEJ International Festival of Children’s Theatre in Cairo, Egypt.

In Plymouth Magazine

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Linking to the Real World

by Emilie Coulter

Look into the back offices of certain Plymouth-area businesses any spring day, and you’ll see a flurry of activity …

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On Their Way

by Jennifer Philion

The college experiences of PSU seniors John East, Bryan Funk, and Brady Lynch have been as varied as the three students’ respective majors: general management, English, and theatre arts.

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Human Beings at PSU

Academy award-winning playwright Ernest Thompson workshops one of his earliest and most controversial plays at PSU.