Sowing the Wind

A Rural Health and Safety Intervention Theatre Project
by Barry Kornhauser

Farming is more than a job; it is a way of life, and one that poses terrible risks, particularly to children living and working on family farms. Sowing The Wind is an interactive rural health and safety intervention theatre piece devised to help young people develop a better understanding of the circumstances that contribute to hazard potentials on farms, to encourage them to make safe and healthful decisions, and to help remind their parents of their responsibilities to their children.

Regular price $12.00
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Quick Details

  • Type: Play
  • Length: 45-60 minutes
  • Availability: Available for productions worldwide
  • Cast Size: 4 Roles

Full Details

Roles:

  • Alice
  • Jacob Meyer
  • Clare Meyer
  • Ezekial Meyer

The following resources are included in each performance license:
  • Permission to photocopy the PDF script for your production so there is no additional cost for these assets.

The following resources may be added to you license for an additional fee:
  • Logo/Media package

Barry Kornhauser

Barry Kornhauser's theatre honors include the Children's Theatre Foundation of America's Orlin Corey Medallion, the American Alliance for Theatre & Education (AATE) Charlotte Chorpenning Cup, Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Play (Cyrano), Ivey Playwriting Award (Reeling), Bonderman Playwriting Prize (Worlds Apart), South Africa National Theatre Festival’s Fringe Ovation Award (Balloonacy), and three AATE Distinguished Play Awards (- This Is Not A Pipe DreamBalloonacy, Corduroy). Closer to home, Barry was named Artist of the Year at the 2017 Pennsylvania Governor's Awards, and his youth theatre program for teens living with disabilities and other life challenges was honored at the White House as one of the nation's top arts-education initiatives. Barry's plays have been commissioned and produced by such Tony Award-winning stages as the Children's Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Denver Center Theatre Company, and the Shakespeare Theatre, as well as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Other venues include Childsplay, Children's Theatre of Charlotte, Dallas Children's Theatre, Discovery Theatre at the Smithsonian, Emerald City, Honolulu Theatre for Youth, the Rose, and Seattle Children's Theatre; festivals from New York to California -including New Visions/New Voices (Power Play); and internationally as far afield as Australia and Myanmar, and including at the National Children’s Theatre of South Africa. Over the years, Barry has conducted theatre residencies everywhere from a one-room Amish schoolhouse to universities across the county. He has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, TYA/USA, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, MetLife Foundation, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour. Currently, Barry works for the Millersville University Office of Visual & Performing Arts. Prior to this, he served over 30 years as Playwright-In-Residence, TYA Director, and sundry other positions at the National Historic Landmark Fulton Theatre.

Sowing The Wind, a T.I.E. project developed under an “Artists & Communities” Grant of the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and a “New Directions” grant from Pennsylvania Performing Artists on Tour, was first produced by the Fulton Theatre in 2006 for the Huntington County PA Arts Council. The production toured schools and community centers across the region and was then performed by invitation at the Pennsylvania Farm Show, as the keynote presentation of annual conferences of the National Institute for Farm Safety, 2008, and the American Farm Bureau Federation, 2009.

Artists & Communities, a program of Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, is made possible by major funding from the Heinz Endowment, Johnson & Johnson, the J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, William Penn Foundation and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

Reviews

Outstanding!  As you could undoubtedly tell, Sowing The Wind was very well received [at the American Farm Bureau's 90th Annual National Conference]. Now we need to brainstorm ideas on how we can make use of this excellent program in all our states.

- American Farm Bureau Federation

Spot-on depictions of typical farm family interactions... Creatively written scenes accurately illustrated common stresses experienced by farmers and ranchers as they strive to remain productive, as well as the poor decision-making that sometimes results and can lead to accidents, often with tragic outcomes involving children.

- The Voice of Agriculture