SKYPAC’s ‘Vexing Verses’ helps kids learn through theatre

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center hosted dozens of Kentucky students on Thursday, using the stage to teach through storytelling.

Students got to watch “Vexing Verses,” part of SKYPAC’s AcTOURS program.

Professional actors used the show to teach about the life and works of famous American poet Edgar Allan Poe. The performance helped break down writing styles, rhythm and meaning, all through theater.

SKYPAC staff say it’s a fun way for kids to learn important subjects outside the classroom.

“We’ve included the Kentucky standards along with source materials from all of from three of Edgar Allan Poe’s works to be incorporated in the production. So this artistic interpretation as an event engages those students, but also gives them real life experience to how that literature is being used, can be used and is heard or felt through either the lighting, the inflection of the actors, but also the interpretation of their physical movements when they’re acting as well,” said Dillon Godolphin, the education and outreach director for SKYPAC.

Godolphin says the AcTOURS programs is open to travel to schools as well if they cannot make it to SKYPAC.

To learn more about the program, you can head here to learn more.