Helping young people discover the creative outlet of theater
By Lenka Peterson and Dan O'Connor
Foreword by Paul Newman
Textbook: $19.95
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If putting on shows with children is a new experience for you, here is a ground-breaking and fun guide to help you through the process of putting young people onstage. It’s about working with kids ages eight to eighteen — how to lead them, teach them and direct their plays, pageants and skits, even if you have little or no prior knowledge of the stage. In a clear and informal style, this book gives you a systematic approach to staging shows with children and having a joyous time doing it. It begins with basic lessons on the art of acting. The text goes step-by-step, providing sample scenes, relaxation techniques, trust-building exercises, improvisations, games and much more, then proceeds through the rehearsal process to the finished staging of a show.
(208 pages, 7 x 9, paperback)
If putting on shows with children is a new experience for you, here is a ground-breaking and fun guide to help you through the process of putting young people onstage. It’s about working with kids ages eight to eighteen — how to lead them, teach them and direct their plays, pageants and skits, even if you have little or no prior knowledge of the stage. In a clear and informal style, this book gives you a systematic approach to staging shows with children and having a joyous time doing it. It begins with basic lessons on the art of acting. The text goes step-by-step, providing sample scenes, relaxation techniques, trust-building exercises, improvisations, games and much more, then proceeds through the rehearsal process to the finished staging of a show.
(208 pages, 7 x 9, paperback)
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This is a truly worthwhile book. It’s clear, useable, often funny, passionate and even sensible? It’s important for all of us to do whatever we can to make life better for kids. This book goes a long way to helping us do that. Paul Newman
When ‘kids take the stage’ we are all taken somewhere important — on a journey of personal, social and ethical discovery; and so we have reason to be grateful for this book, for its offer to guide us on that journey, an important one, indeed. Dr. Robert Coles, child psychiatrist and Harvard University professor
