The Traveling Players Ensemble
This is the first of what is hopefully a series of posts about 
what everyone is up to this summer.*
Last Friday evening, Burke.Word fled the sweltering sidewalks of DC for the theater among cool grass and shady trees near Great Falls. Close to the banks for the Potomac under the setting sun, three acting troupes from the Traveling Players Ensemble performed 2 plays by Moliere (The Miser and The Learned Ladies), as well as Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.
TPE is a non-profit professional theater company whose mission is to “bring great theater into the great outdoors.” As part of its mission it has a summer camp for kids where they learn, produce, rehearse and perform plays 
in a theater of trees and grass. TPE also promotes the ‘ensemble’ as a way to teach and promote creativity and community. As the evening went on, including the finale which was a riverside s’more fest, you saw how close and supportive the kids, and counselors and staff had become.
A number of Burke kids played big roles this summer at TPE, both on and behind the stage, including Jeffrey (’10), Lawrence (’11), Ellie (’12), Julianne (’16) and Kate (’16). The good news is that there are 
more performances, including Love’s Labor Lost, which begins on July 27. You can find the schedule and locations here.
You can also see lots more photos at BurkePix.
* Are you doing something cool this summer? Yoga Camp, or a cruise, or trip to Sweden, perhaps (you know who you are)? Then you need to do a little show & tell for the rest of the class. We’d love to hear what you’ve been up to! You can share your summer stories and photos with Burke.Word by sending them to ramaz57 [at] gmail.com and we’ll get them posted to the site. Thanks!
