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Theatre of the Spoken Word
A printable PDF version of all the
Theatre of The Spoken Word info sheets can be found here.
Since 1980 Milbre Burch has produced, presented and performed in traditional
storytelling venues -- schools; libraries; community, residential and
correctional settings; coffee houses; art museums; black box theatres;
churches; synagogues; hospitals; senior centers; folk music and storytelling
festivals. Through her work with storytelling collectives on two coasts, and
her efforts as a producer and presenter, Milbre has actively championed the
cause of "good storytelling as good theatre" for adult and family audiences.
In the course of two decades she has worked to move storytelling out of the
school cafetorium, the church basement, the festival tent, and onto the
proscenium stage. To complement her storytelling "chamber concert" work in
low-tech educational and community settings, she created the Theatre of the
Spoken Word in 1991. Her Theatre of the Spoken Word productions are developed
as fully realized solo theatrical performances with sets, props and staging,
geared for the mainstage.
Her one-woman shows have been excerpted or presented in their entirety by
Caltech Public Events; Cafe Patachou in Indianapolis; the Hollywood Literary
Retreat; the Hiddenite Center in North Carolina; the Los Angeles Women's
Theatre Festival; National-Louis University in Evanston, IL; adult
storytelling series at the Beverly Hills Library, the Monterey Public
Library, By Word of Mouth in Pasadena and Tales by the Sea in Malibu; the
14th Street Playhouse in Atlanta; the High Point Theatre Cabaret in North
Carolina; the Mark Taper Forum of the Los Angeles Public Library; Appalachian
State University in Boone, NC; the Indianapolis Art Museum; the University of
San Diego; California Plaza Presents; the Family Business Seminar of Kennesaw
College in Georgia; the Solo Visions Festival at Sushi Performance and Visual
Art in San Diego; Occidental College in Los Angeles; the Washington (DC)
Storytellers' Theatre; the Del Norte Association for Cultural Awareness; the
Ackland Art Museum at UNC-Chapel Hill; the National Storytelling Festival and
festivals in Utah, Nevada, California and Mississippi; and at Folke
Tegetthoffs Die Lange Nacht Der Marchenerzahler in Austria among others.
And now, she'd like to bring her Theatre of the Spoken Word mainstage
productions to a theatre near you. Click here for links to the touring shows
in her current repertoire.
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