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Three Local Actors Teach Anti-Bullying Message to Peers
Rye Brook residents Emily Kitchin and Danielle Goz, both 12, and Hadley Durkee, 13, of Rye perform with the Random Farms Kids Theater's traveling show and anti-bullying assembly "The New Kid" in schools throughout the greater New York metropolitan area in
After weeks of rehearsal at the Random Farms Kid's Theater's performing arts center in Elmsford, N.Y., two casts of local actors between the ages of 10 and 15 take their show on the road to schools within a one hour radius of New York City.
"The New Kid" is a 55-minute musical performance that addresses issues of bullying, peer pressure and hazing. Four rival cliques vie for the allegiance and attention of Zack, a new student who recently moved to P.S. 32, a fictional middle school that will feel very familiar its student audiences.
In this video, Kitchin, Durkee and Goz talk about the message of the show and what it's like to perform for an audience of one's peers. Company manager and Dobbs Ferry parent Ellen Flaks and school counselor Sandra Hacker speak about the importance of anti-bullying education after a recent performance at Dobbs Ferry Middle School.
