Product Code: DA5000
Three contemporary cutting-edge plays from a country notable for extending the boundaries of theater for young audiences.
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Product Code: TK3000
Theatre on a Tabletop teaches you how to do a number of things—put on a performance using a salt and pepper shaker and a banana, make a theater out of a cardboard box, disassemble a broken umbrella into dozens of parts for puppet building, play with shadows on the overhead projector, and put on a series of workshops that go from planning sessions to performance. It encompasses a philosophy of theatre and education and a look at the origins and history of this specialized art form and its connections to art and society. It shares the personal journeys of two extraordinary artisteachers and some of their award-winning professional puppet scripts for the company they founded and continue to lead: Chinese Theatre Works.
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Product Code: PD5000
Puppetry from other times and places offers so many opportunities to bring our young people cross-cultural awareness, links to the curriculum, and the fun and rewards of performing in new ways. This book brings you the resources to do just that. Each chapter gives you a verbal snapshot of the culture from which the puppet heroes and heroines arose, a description of the puppeteers, the puppets and the stage, a scenario from which a play can be developed, suggestions for other resources, and "Links to Learning"—ways in which making and performing with these puppet heroes will help you reach curricular goals.
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Product Code: BD6000
This book is about developing that art form and bringing together the voices of many children to achieve a collective dramatic work for the stage or the classroom. The authors share their extensive experience in helping bring these achievements about—initiating the writing, creating the collage, and bringing the children's words alive on stage.
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Product Code: AC9000
Approx. Run Time: 50 min.
Lights come up on a stage filled with a storybook, lettered in the flowing script of 16th-century Spain. Leaning against it is an elderly man, Alonso Quijano, in full but fading knightly regalia. As his imagination works upon the stage, one by one, characters step out of the book to bring to life one of the great romantic farces of the Western world.
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Product Code: E57000
Approx. Run Time: 60 min.
Three children, stranded in the attic of their great-aunt's Victorian mansion while searching for a lost treasure, discover that the attic window has mysterious powers of transformation. Of course, the children's wishes call up the characters and settings dear to children's hearts: a spooky atmosphere full of lurking shadows, a talking cat, pirate ships, and a puppet theater in which the marionettes come to life.
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Product Code: G87000
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.
The life of Galileo Galilei makes for not only a spellbinding drama that will keep your audience gripped by a deeply serious exploration of ethics, but also gives a very unique lesson for young people in history and science.
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Product Code: CF6000
Approx. Run Time: 75 min.
Step across the threshold of the Tabard Inn and enter 14th-century England, not as a passive spectator but as an active participant, the innkeeper's honored guests. This is hearty fare for your audiences who want action, conflict and the stuff of real life—plus the thrill of participating!
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Product Code: TJ6000
Approx. Run Time: 80 min.
Product Code: WC3000
Approx. Run Time: 60 min.
They're strong. They're wild. They're brave. They're wonderful! They're America's folk heroines, brought to life on the stage. We know all the men, but how many of us know the larger-than-life gals who share the world of tall tales with them?
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