REVOLUTIONS PUPPETSHOW PLAYBILL 4Th Period

REVOLUTIONS PUPPETSHOW PLAYBILL 4th period

• “GRAN COLOMBIA,” 1811-1830
  - performed by Macy Finger, Lily Jones & Jack Sell
  The dashing South American hero Simon Bolivar rides across the continent, driving out the Spanish, dreaming of a great confederation along the lines of a United States of South America. One revolution gives birth to five countries.
  
• CHINA, 1911-1916
  - performed by Stella Kiehn, Leah Matthews & Maddy Turner
  The last holdout of the great empires of antiquity falls at last, with none other than the Son of Heaven himself going down (well, he was only six but watch out for that evil stepmother!).
  
• MEXICO, 1911-1920
  - performed by Abby Ellis, Tori Harding & Derek Mulkins
  Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821, but they had Unfinished Business. Learn to tell your heroes from your banditos (“Badges? We don’t need to stinking badges!”). If you like your bullets strapped in an X across your chest, this one’s for you.
  
• INDIA & PAKISTAN, 1930-1947
  - performed by Alyssa Bordonaro, Raymond Lewis & Savannah Rankich
  Can a revolution be non-violent? This one certainly wasn’t. But Ghandi showed his people –and the mighty British Empire—that one can be won without it.
  
• ALGERIA, 1945-1962
  - performed by Ashley Wilson, Hailey Woodworth & Rita Salas
  Before there was the Arab Spring, there was the Algerian Revolution. Before it, nearly an entire continent suffered under imperial rule. One of the first of a wave of revolutions that set Africa free from Europe, it foreshadowed the Arab world’s troubles of today.
  
• VIETNAM, 1945-1975
  - performed by Madeline Battalio, Maddie Marie-Rose & Emma Paulsen
  What starts as yet another imperial revolution by a small country against a colonial power gets swept up by the forces of history –those forces being America vs. Communism in the Cold War.
  
• CUBA, 1952-1958
  - performed by Tessa Eldred, Sarah Hance & Monique Jones
  Che Guevara may be on your shirt or coffee cup, but do you know anything about him, really? See Fidel Castro when he actually looked good in khaki and a stogie. See 50’s Americans tremble at the Commie revolution next door.
  
• KENYA, 1952-1963
  - performed by Nicki Carp, Izzy Gonzalez & Grace Zamzow
  On the south side of the Sahara, African freedom came hardest. The brutality in this one is not for the faint of heart, but is has a happy ending.
  
• IRAN, 1979
  -performed by Kendall Robertson, Drew Ruana & Ethan Yee
  Images of blindfolded Americans are only part of the story of how Iran became a country where the supreme religious leader has more power than the head of government.
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• EGYPT, 2011-?
  -performed by Katy Bordonaro, Jack Carter & Colin Dowd
  When a young Tunisian man set himself on fire on a busy street corner, it set the dictator-dominated Arab world on fire from Morocco to the Persian Gulf, but the biggest and most complicated of these uprisings has been Egypt. Unfolding like a classic drawn-out revolution of several phases, we can wonder: Is it over yet?