The much awaited second volume to Slaight and Sharrar's Great Scenes and Monologues for Children expands the compelling dramatic material available for young actors ages 7 to 14. The selections - taken from both contemporary and classic plays, myths and legends, and fairy tales - offer a wide variety of styles and themes to challenge children and their teachers and directors. Among the playwrights represented are Timothy Mason, Y York, Steven Dietz, Paul Zindel, Louis Sachar, Suzan Zedar, Contance Congdon, Lynne Alvarez, Alan Ayckbourn, Sarah Daniels, Christina Reid, Naomi Wallace, and Wole Soyinka to name only a few. Of particular interest, the collection features scenes and monologues from plays developed by the internationally renowned Young Conservartory at American Conservatory Theater (where Slaight and Sharrar are in residence) and London's Royal National Theatre.
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..providing a broad range of material with a wide spectrum of uses, this practical compilation is a must buy. -- Booklist
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Craig Slaight is the director of the Young Conservatory at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.
Jack Sharrar is registrar and director of Graduate Studies for the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, where he also teaches acting, directing, and voice.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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disappointed,
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This review is from: Great Scenes and Monologues for Children Ages 7-14 (Young Actors Series) Vol. II (Paperback)
I have volume one of this book and have used a few of the scenes for classes I have taught and was looking forward to having more material to chose from. Unfortunately I could not find one scene in volume two to use. Most of the scenes were too lengthy to use for classroom use and were also too long to present to a child as young as 7 or 8 to memorize. A few of the scenes had characters that were adults and therefore were not in fact good choices for a young child to play. Most of my students are female and it seemed a bulk of the material is this book were parts for males. Overall this was not a worthwhile purchase for me.
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very good scenes book,
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This review is from: Great Scenes and Monologues for Children Ages 7-14 (Young Actors Series) Vol. II (Paperback)
This book has a lot of great scenes but mostly for boys. However, my 2 girls, 11 and 13, have fun adapting them. Not as good as volume I due to insufficient scenes for girl.
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