A collection of nineteen plays to be performed for young audiences or by child actors.
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"The most complete guide available on all aspects of children's theater."—Clarus: Words and Music for Young People
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Coleman A. Jennings, Ph.D, is a professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin. A pioneering scholar and mentor in both the study and advocacy of performing arts for children, he has taught courses in creative drama, theater for young audiences, and children's dramatic literature at UT-Austin since 1963. His many other anthologies include Theatre for Young Audiences: 20 Great Plays for Children, Eight Plays for Children: The New Generation Play Project; and Theatre for Youth: Twelve Plays with Mature Themes.
Aurand Harris is the most produced playwright for young audiences in the United States, with more than 30 published plays to his credit. Before his death in 1996, he was the first children's playwright to receive a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the first to win the Charolette Chorpenning Cup from the American Theatre Association. His widely revered plays include The Arkansaw Bear, Androcles and the Lion, Rags to Riches, The Tobey Show, Monkey Magic, Pinballs, and The Orphan Train. Harris also wrote stage adaptations for such well-known stories as Pocohantas and The Magician's Nephew.
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Aurand Harris is the most produced playwright for young audiences in the United States, with more than 30 published plays to his credit. Before his death in 1996, he was the first children's playwright to receive a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the first to win the Charolette Chorpenning Cup from the American Theatre Association. His widely revered plays include The Arkansaw Bear, Androcles and the Lion, Rags to Riches, The Tobey Show, Monkey Magic, Pinballs, and The Orphan Train. Harris also wrote stage adaptations for such well-known stories as Pocohantas and The Magician's Nephew.
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This review is from: Plays Children Love: Volume II: A Treasury of Contemporary and Classic Plays for Children (Paperback)
This collection provides a good mix of large and small group plays, including The Wizard of Oz, Treasure Island and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. It might not be great theater, but it gave the elementary school kids I was working with a chance to perform a familiar story without a million rehearsals. The lines are manageable and the kids weren't put off by having to learn long speeches.
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Disappointing. Only a small portion of the book is devoted to plays that children can perform themselves. The handful of plays in this section provide a good example of the multiculturism fad in kids' books these days. The plays are identified as coming from several different countries. But this supposedly diverse group of plays is uniformly unentertaining, with little or no educational content.
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I love all of the different types of plays. I am using the second section of plays for children. The narration is perfect, and the lines are often funny. My students love the play, "How the First Letter Was Written." It's a great source.
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The abbreviations commonly used in noting stage directions appear in many of the scripts in this collection. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
same old story every time, everybody reel, hominy barrel, tin woodman, oilcloth packet, little gray man, anyone presenting, long runner, golden cap, forgotten door, pageant ever, carousel music, adult performers, heard offstage, silver shoes, baby angels, special hair, town musicians, blue horse, angel choir, egg sac Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pear Blossom, Sukey Sue, Cave Lady, Lazey Lou, Jim Thorpe, Toad Hall, Rudey Rue, Old Toad, Emerald City, New York, Big Jesse Febold Ebenezer Chopalong, Anchorage Press, Billy Bones, First Daughter, Lin Yun, Ben Gunn, Uncle Homer, Jim Hawkins, James Whitcomb Riley, Little Pigling, Toy Theatre, Gilby Pitts, Long John Silver, Black Spot, Imogene Herdman New!
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The abbreviations commonly used in noting stage directions appear in many of the scripts in this collection. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
same old story every time, everybody reel, hominy barrel, tin woodman, oilcloth packet, little gray man, anyone presenting, long runner, golden cap, forgotten door, pageant ever, carousel music, adult performers, heard offstage, silver shoes, baby angels, special hair, town musicians, blue horse, angel choir, egg sac Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pear Blossom, Sukey Sue, Cave Lady, Lazey Lou, Jim Thorpe, Toad Hall, Rudey Rue, Old Toad, Emerald City, New York, Big Jesse Febold Ebenezer Chopalong, Anchorage Press, Billy Bones, First Daughter, Lin Yun, Ben Gunn, Uncle Homer, Jim Hawkins, James Whitcomb Riley, Little Pigling, Toy Theatre, Gilby Pitts, Long John Silver, Black Spot, Imogene Herdman New!
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- Treasure Island (Signet Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson on 8 pages
- Treasure Island Hb (Heinemann Spotlights) by Malcom Morgan on 6 pages
- Treasure Island by Louis Robert Stevenson on 4 pages
- Treasure Island by Robert L Stevenson on 4 pages
- Treasure Island (Penguin Readers, Level 2) by Louis Stevenson on 4 pages
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- On Stage: Theater Games and Activities for Kids by Lisa Bany-Winters in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- How to Write a Children's Book and Get It Published by Barbara Seuling in Back Matter
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