Each Summer Boxtales Theatre Company conducts a professional theater training Summer Camp for youth in Santa Barbara. It’s a 3-week journey into the “Boxtales method,” a wonderful blend of acting and storytelling culminating in an original stage production. Using minimal props with participants being the scenery, it’s always fun to see what the talented group of young thespians will come up with. This year it was an imaginative re-telling of Pinocchio, complete with a donkey powered wagon and a giant shark swallowing the little string-free puppet. The remarkably talented and limber Kaeva Vorbeck played a most engaging and energetic Pinocchio.
Gepetto is amazed his creation has come to life – Boxtales Theatre Co. Summer Camp 7/21/16 Marjorie Luke Theatre
The other puppets can’t believe Pinocchio needs no strings – Boxtales Theatre Co. Summer Camp 7/21/16 Marjorie Luke Theatre
Pinocchio is a dancing sensation – Boxtales Theatre Co. Summer Camp 7/21/16 Marjorie Luke Theatre
The cat and the fox attempt to lead Pinocchio astray – Boxtales Theatre Co. Summer Camp 7/21/16 Marjorie Luke Theatre
There goes that nose – Boxtales Theatre Co. Summer Camp 7/21/16 Marjorie Luke Theatre
Donkey powered ride to trouble – Boxtales Theatre Co. Summer Camp 7/21/16 Marjorie Luke Theatre
In the belly of the ginormous shark – Boxtales Theatre Co. Summer Camp 7/21/16 Marjorie Luke Theatre
