All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Based on the books by Robert Fulghum
Conceived and adapted by Ernest Zulia
Music by David Caldwell
Directed by Becky Jascoviak
Crown Point Community Theater will present All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten written by Robert Fulghum.
The title of the book is taken from the first of fifty essays in the volume, in which Fulghum lists lessons normally learned in American kindergarten classrooms and explains how the world would be improved if adults adhered to the same basic rules as children, i.e. sharing, being kind to one another, cleaning up after themselves, and living “a balanced life” of work, play, and learning. The essays cover topics from Childhood to Death. In his introduction, Fulghum describes these as having been “written over many years and addressed to friends, family, a religious community, and myself, with no thought of publication in book form.”
If you were asked “What did you learn in Kindergarten” what would your answer be?
“These are the things I learned (in Kindergarten):
1. Share everything.
2. Play fair.
3. Don’t hit people.
4. Put things back where you found them.
5. CLEAN UP YOUR OWN MESS.
6. Don’t take things that aren’t yours.
7. Say you’re SORRY when you HURT somebody.
8. Wash your hands before you eat.
9. Flush.
10. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
11. Live a balanced life – learn some and drink some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
12. Take a nap every afternoon.
13. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
14. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Stryrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
15. Goldfish and hamster and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup – they all die. So do we.
16. And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first workd you learned – the biggest word of all – LOOK.”
― Robert Fulghum
Crown Point Community Theater
1125 Merrillville Road
Crown Point, IN 46307
219-805-4255
Show Schedule
Friday, April 12, 13 @ 8 pm Sunday, April 14 @ 3 pm
Friday, April 19, 20 @ 8 pm, Sunday, April 21 @ 3 pm
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