‘Steal Away: The Living History of Harriet Tubman’

The New Perspectives Theater Company’s World Voices Program is reviving this fascinating and poignant play by Rick Balian, aimed at ages 4 through 12. In about an hour, using puppets and live actors, it covers Tubman’s girlhood as a slave; her relationship with her father, who taught her to use the night sky as a map; the head injury inflicted by a cruel master, which left her prone to narcolepsy; and her rise as a leader of the Underground Railroad. After the production, children will learn two spirituals that contained coded messages for fleeing slaves.