Aesop's Fable-ous Barnyard Bash

Product Code: AK8000

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Approx. Run Time: 50 min.

The Barnyard Bash is always a big hit on Aesop's farm. Too bad it only happens once a year! With a monthly countdown, the farmers and animals tell tales about life on a farm, giving familiar fables a barnyard twist. A dozen vignettes feature all of your favorite barnyard characters and blend humor, rhythmic elements, rapping, puppetry, poetry, song and storytelling to create a fast-paced, fun-filled show that is sure to delight.

The Blue House

Product Code: BL3000

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Approx. Run Time: 70 min.

This is the story of 13-year-old Maricela, who lives in a vibrant Chicago neighborhood with a rich and sad history. Haunting dreams of strangers from another time lead Maricela to an abandoned lot where the mysterious Blue House once stood and where Maricela encounters the spirit of a mysterious African-American woman. Told in English and Spanish, this thrilling story, set during the 1919 Race Riot and present day, celebrates the power of courage, love and forgiveness.

The Seamstress

Product Code: S1U000

Approx. Run Time: 95 min.

It is 1916, a time when women's rights are far from equal and wives were required to be submissive to their husbands. A beautiful, young, in-demand seamstress is hired by the McFarlands, but all is not as it seems in the household. Witness the dark unraveling of the secret lives of everyone in the McFarland mansion and learn that not all things are meant to be mended.

The Boatwright

Product Code: BL1000

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Approx. Run Time: 95 min.

Fifty-seven years old, recently widowed, childless and retired, Ben is adrift—and even though he's never seen the ocean, he decides he should build a boat and sail across the Atlantic, single-handedly. When Ben decides to let his troubled film-student neighbor, Jaime, make a movie about his boat-building project, the two men—generations apart and lonely in very different ways—force each other to confront the isolation in their own lives.

Bloom

Product Code: BL7000

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Approx. Run Time: 105 min.

Following the death of his father, 15-year-old Daniel is forced to move to unfamiliar Flint, Michigan. After a violent outburst at school, Daniel's social worker suggests he spend a week working with her father who is an urban gardener of several abandoned lots in the middle of the city. A week soon turns into a few months, and, as the two men spend the summer tending the gardens, they begin to plant some much-needed hope in a neighborhood plagued by blight and help each other heal some old wounds.