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From Lauryn Axelrod, Resident Dramaturg
Welcome backstage at the Weston Playhouse Theatre Company with our new online StageNotes. Enrich and expand your WPTC experience as you explore the history of the play, read interviews, watch videos or hear music clips, discover connections and contexts, and learn about the playwrights, composers, directors, actors and designers who make your WPTC live theatre experience so memorable. Enjoy the show! |
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OVERVIEW
He's one small mouse on one very big adventure of bravery, humor and true friendship…
Stuart Little is no ordinary mouse. Born to a family of humans, he lives in New York City with his parents, his older brother George, and Snowbell the cat. Though he’s shy and thoughtful, he's also a true lover of adventure.
Stuart's greatest adventure comes when his best friend, a beautiful little bird named Margalo, disappears from home. Determined to track her down, Stuart ventures away from home for the very first time in his life. He finds adventure aplenty as he meets new friends, sails on a boat, and outsmarts a couple of hungry cats. But will he find his friend? |
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Published in 1945, Stuart Little was E. B. White's first children's story. It is the tale of a young New Yorker named Stuart Little who had the "shy, pleasant manner of a mouse" and in Garth Williams’ illustrations does look like a mouse.
“...Stuart Little appeared to me in dream, all complete, with his hat, his cane, and his brisk manner. Since he was the only fictional figure ever to honor and disturb my sleep, I was deeply touched and felt that I was not free to change him into a grasshopper or a wallaby...." - E. B. White
OTHER VERSIONS
• The story was adapted into a film, also called Stuart Little, which combined live-action with computer animation, in 1999.
• The sequel to the first film, Stuart Little 2, was released in 2002.
• An animated television series resulted, also named Stuart Little, produced for HBO Family.
• "The World of Stuart Little," a 1966 episode of NBC's Children's Theater, won a Peabody Award and was nominated for an Emmy.
• A third and final film, Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild was released direct-to-video in 2006. It featured a different visual style, being entirely computer-animated. |
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: E.B. WHITE
E. B. White was born in 1899 in Mount Vernon, New York. He served in the army before going to Cornell University. There he wrote for the college newspaper, the Cornell Daily Sun. His full name was Elwyn Brooks White, but people at the newspaper began calling him "Andy," and the name stuck. After he graduated, he worked as a reporter. In 1927 he became a writer for The New Yorker magazine, where he became well known. He wrote a column for Harper's magazine from 1938 to 1943. |
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White's career had already brought him much fame, but he was about to try something new. His nieces and nephews always asked him to tell them stories, so he began writing his own tales to read to them. In 1945, he started publishing these stories as books, including Charlotte’s Web, Trumpet of the Swan, and Stuart Little. All three are now considered classics of children's literature. He is also the co-author of the well-known writing manual, The Elements of Style.
In 1957, White moved to North Brooklin, Maine, with his wife, Katharine. There he continued to write. In 1963, White received a Presidential Medal of Freedom and was awarded an honorary Pulitzer Prize for his work as a whole in 1978. He died in 1985.
>> Complete Biography
>> Letter from E.B. White (Source)
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This is the endearing classic about a mouse named Stuart who is born into an ordinary New York family. All the charm, wisdom and joy of the E.B. White original are captured in this adaptation by Joseph Robinette, who also dramatized the highly acclaimed stage version of Charlotte's Web. The many adventures -- both big and small -- of Stuart Little are brought vividly to life in this fun, imaginative story-theatre presentation. The acting ensemble plays many human and animal roles in a series of delightful scenes that make up the marvelous maneuverings of a mild-mannered mouse trying to survive in a "real people's world." |
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Joseph Robinette is the author of 51 published plays and musicals, including The Fabulous Fable Factory, written with composer Thomas Tierney, and Charlotte's Web, adapted from the novel by E.B. White, two of the most widely produced children's plays in the United States. He has also dramatized the authorized stage versions of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Paper Chase, and A Rose for Emily. The recipient of numerous playwriting awards, Robinette was presented the 1976 Charlotte Chorpenning Cup, given annually by the Children's Theatre Association of America to "an outstanding writer of children's plays who has achieved national recognition."
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In 2002, as professor of theatre at Rowan University, he received the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award for Demonstrated Excellence in the University Classroom. In 2004, he received the American Association for Theatre and Education's best play award for his adaptation of Sarah, Plain and Tall, and in 2006, he was awarded the Children's Theatre Foundation of America Medallion "...for his body of dramatic works for children and young people in the United States and beyond." He currently resides in New Jersey.
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