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Reviews
"This is the 'best' - most relevant - children's performance since we opened 17 years ago!'
-Nell Pearce, Principal
Plano, Texas
"Watching the SEEM-TO-BE PLAYERS in this production, I couldn't help thinking wistfully how pleasant it would be if more productions for adults were designed to be so energetic, joyful and fun."
- regarding the play, The Bremen Town Musicians
- Rhonda Leewsader, St. Louis, MO
"In an age where dedication and loyalty seem like qualities of a bygone era, the versatile and committed individuals making up the SEEM-TO-BE PLAYERS are united by a shared vision...the celebration of those aspects of life, including play, which gave positive meaning and purpose to the human enterprise."
- Chuck Berg Professor of Theater & Film Studios University of Kansas, Lawrence Journal- World
"I haven't missed a show in 11 years."
- Rachel Stewart, age 11
Main Text
Artistic Director's Statement
 The SEEM-TO-BE PLAYERS were formed during the age of "alternatives." When my wife, Jeanne, and I began the company, we sought to create a vibrant, entertaining theatre to share with children the joy that we felt to be alive in 1973. We had a vision of a world where girls could have great adventures as quickly and as often as boys, where the unexpected is necessary, where the fantasy and reality meld in an absurd pot-pourri of theatrical images stirred and mixed with original music.
The SEEM-TO-BE PLAYERS are about joy - the joy of imagination, of people, places, ideas, history, colors, costumes, and music. We playfully connect with young people - we watch as they enjoy and learn and live with the actors, as they follow and "play" with the story. I often tell my students that it is no coincidence that we call a work of theatre a "play." What we do is make play - still with an awareness of all the nons (non sexist, non racist, non stereotypical, non moralistic, non traditional and non condescending), with a sensitivity to the needs of young women, of African Americans, of Hispanic Americans, of kids who just don't fit in - with an awareness of all that we dealt with as children that we abandoned in play, in the joy of life. Sometimes we sell these plays as "education" or as "art." But what our theatre really shares with children is the joy of life as found in play.
-Ric Averill, Artistic Director
"Ten years of entertaining children has given Ric Averill a sharp insight into their world."
- Lawrence Journal-World
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