Northwestern College to present Dragons Love Tacos children's play

Northwestern College’s theatre department will present the children’s play, “Dragons Love Tacos,” Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, Oct. 3 and 4. Both performances—at 7 p.m. Friday and 4 p.m. Saturday—will take place in the DeWitt Theatre Arts Center’s Allen Black Box Theatre.

Based on the book by Adam Rubin, “Dragons Love Tacos” is the story of a young boy and his dog who get caught up in the “do’s and don’ts” of what to serve to hungry dragons while watching a TV show about dragons.

“This is a play I have been interested in for a few years now,” says Ethan Koerner, the play’s director and associate professor of theatre at Northwestern. He chose this version of the script because of its unique storytelling style.

“The play relies heavily on music and sound to tell the story,” he says. “Some characters are on stage for most of the play but don’t ever actually talk. This way of storytelling requires the actors to be really good at expressing emotion and feeling without words, and it asks the audience to be very attentive.”

Eleven students are part of the cast, including nine first-year students. Four of them—Alice Boggs, Annika Bonestroo, Adysson Geary and Maggie Kaup—play the story’s dragons. Other first-year students include Rebecca De Haan as the Boy, Anna Lawrence as Leroy, Rolyn Gardner as Mom, Owen Parker as the Moxie Clean Man, and Haylie Tripp as Telenovela. Juniors Emily Espinoza and Ruthie Zimmerman round out the cast as men in suits.

In addition to the two public performances on Oct. 3 and 4, the cast will perform 11 weekday matinees for local schoolchildren and homeschool students. Approximately 2,500 area students are expected to attend.

Admission for the public performances of “Dragons Love Tacos” is $10 for adults and $5 for students. Children 12 and under are admitted free. To purchase tickets, visit nwciowa.edu/tickets, call the box office at 712-707-7098, or email boxoffice@nwciowa.edu.

Regarded as one of the best Christian college theatre programs in the country, Northwestern’s theatre department features a collaborative, excellence-oriented environment committed to helping students develop their creative gifts for service in God’s kingdom. Study with Northwestern’s award-winning faculty in the outstanding facilities of DeWitt Theatre Arts Center.