Children's Theater Production, "Unsorted," to Be Performed at Centene Center

A tale of sorting clothes -- and people—will be performed for children of all ages at Centene Center on Nov. 21, courtesy of Mineral Area Council on the Arts.
 
Metro Theater Company will perform a children’s theater production at 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 21, at Centene Center in Farmington. Tickets are $5 per adult, $2 per child, available at Farmington Civic Center, #2 Black Knight Dr., Farmington, or charge by phone (573) 756-0900. All seats are reserved. For more information, contact MACOA Executive Director Danielle Basler, (573) 518-2125.
 
The 40-minute play introduces children to a world where clothes are the characters and, according to the bully-boss known as ‘Jacket,’ everyone must be sorted. Separate and divided? No way! These mixety characters want to hang out with each other. Distinctly separate categories make no more sense to the clothes than they do in our world. But Jacket is in charge. The sorting must be done…or else!
 
Audiences will have fun watching this lively story tangle, unravel and re-weave toward hopeful possibility. After the play, themes of personal identity, belonging, acceptance and self-worth offer rich opportunities for thoughtful discussion about the ways we sort ourselves and each other, the dangers of labeling and exclusion, and the right all of us have to claim who we are.
 
Financial assistance for this program is provided by the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.