BRING TOUCHSTONE TO YOUR AUDIENCE
schools,community centers, libraries, festivals

Youth and Family Productions -
Don Quixote: La Aventura Comienza

The Talisman

Touring Fees

Funding Opportunities

Methods and Techniques

To bring a Touchstone production to your
venue, contact Touring Manager
Bill George

A COMIC STRIP

Directed by Daniel Stein (Dell'Arte Company of Blue Lake, CA),
A Comic Strip is Touchstone's newest ensemble-created, dark
and funny drama. The play follows Phil Kravitz, a seasoned and world famous comic-strip artist, whose life has begun to violently unravel. How can art possibly inspire positive change in a world
so filled with very real suffering? Creatively and psychically
blocked, Phil attempts to answer to this question alone until
his favorite comic strip character breaks out of his frame and
leads him on a journey into hell. Mix Dante and R. Crumb,
with Looney Tunes meets David Lynch on the side.

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WHERE WE'VE BEEN LATELY

New York City Parks, City Parks Foundation

Adams County Arts Council, Gettysburg, PA

International Puppet Biennial Festival, Caguas, Puerto Rico

Bethlehem Township Recreation Center

Reading Public Museum

Mayfair Festival of the Arts

Saints Simon & Jude School, Bethlehem

Bucks County Free Library, Levittown

The National Theatre, Washington, DC

Mauch Chunk Opera House, Jim Thorpe, PA

Union Township Elementary School, Milford, NJ

Mosser Elementary School, Allentown

The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ

Resica Elementary School, Stroudsburg, PA

Agere Systems, Allentown, PA

Millersville University, PA

Dante Hall Theatre of the Arts, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, Bloomsburg, PA

Bring an inspiring, and imaginative adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes' world famous comic classic to your stage! Featuring Touchstone's trademark physical theatre, puppetry small to
gigante (from hand puppets to 14ft tall puppets), and audience participation, this bilingual production engages and entertains
all ages with its broad comedy and fast moving plot.

"This is a story about a knight and a faithful squire. Join us as
we go back through time in the 15th century for an action-packed show! See Don Quixote battle windmills and go after his dreams!" Quotes from Donegan Elementary School, Bethlehem, PA

For more information, please call 610-867-1689 or email
Bill George

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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

"An audacious company....
internationally renowned for its wittily eclectic staging techniques."
Bob Mondello, City Paper, Washington, D.C.

"Pure Magic!"
Myra Outwater, The Morning Call

"Intellectually stimulating and a quintessential display of physical theatre."
Roy Fulner, The Reporter, Lansdale, PA

"What you see at Touchstone, you won't see anywhere else. It's such a refreshing change from the ordinary."
Kenneth Sawyers, Audience Member

"Touchstone Theatre touches lives in ways you will never imagine - I saw it in the children and adult faces."
Sue Williams, Adams County Arts Council

"When 300 people come marching down Fourth Street behind that iconic figure of idealism, Don Quixote, astride a rag-tag wooden horse and clad in glorious regalia, this little town of Bethlehem indeed becomes an enchanted place."
Kerri Allen, American Theatre

"A Comic Strip drives past the easy laugh and leaves theatre goers
rethinking their own views of what's funny and what life is all about."
Cara Hungerford, Audience Member

"A Tack-Sharp Cosmic Family Circus."
Geoff Gehman, The Morning Call

Click the image below to see a scene from The Talisman.
You will need Quicktime to view this video clip. For a free
download of Quicktime, click here.

Once upon a time (200 years ago), in a town far, far away (Odense, Denmark), a little boy (Hans Christian Andersen) was born. Who ever thought that little boy would live a magical life and write fairy tales loved the world over? He did.
"My life is a fairy tale," said Hans Christian Andersen; through his hardest times, with nowhere to live and no food to eat, he never
lost his ideal of a world where everything is possible, where all life can become a story.

If you would like to consider Touchstone as part of your theatrical season, please contact Bill George. Or call us at: 610-867-1689.

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Touchstone also offers workshops to foster the creativity of your students or community including. Some of our workshop topics include:
· The gestural technique of Jacques Lecoq
· The organic theatre process, including ensemble building and collective creativity
· Mime and pantomime techniques
· Playwriting
· Bullying

Touchstone Theatre was selected for inclusion in the Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour Roster. Funding may be available to support performance engagements with presenters in DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, OH, PA,VA, WV and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Please visit www.pennpat.org.

Touchstone Theatre is also in the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) Arts in Education Roster. For funding information, please contact the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Arts in Education Division: 717-787-6883 or visit www.pacouncilonthearts.org.