Need A Script For A Play For Children
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Topic: Need A Script For A Play For Children
Posted By: peacfrog50
Subject: Need A Script For A Play For Children
Date Posted: 5/05/10 at 2:39pm
| Our theatre group is looking to start doing plays geared toward children. The majority of our audience is adult & senior citizens. So this is the first time we are doing this. Our dilema is what show to kick it off with?? we need a good script, funny, entertaining, not too long and a fairly small cast...any suggestions?? |
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Posted By: edh915
Date Posted: 5/05/10 at 10:18pm
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Check out www.freedrama.com You can read the scripts on line. I've seen three of their productions done at the middle school level, and they were all very enjoyable: Sleeping Handsome Holka Polka Beauty Is a Beast And zero (or very minimal) royalties. |
Posted By: Tallsor
Date Posted: 5/06/10 at 10:55am
If you're okay with a one-act, a group I belonged to did "Aesop's (Oh So Slightly) Updated Fables" (from Baker's Plays) - it has a lot of characters, but can be double cast. It was funny and I liked it - and I'm not a big fan of children's shows  .
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Posted By: jtonner
Date Posted: 5/07/10 at 9:47am
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Congratulations, you have entered into the world of "lots of scripts, not much quality". The majority of children's shows out there are just not very good, at least in my opinion. That being said, we have had good results with Charlotte's Web the cast is not too large and there are both a musical and straight version available. Babe - The Sheep Pig is a very good script, the cast requires some crowd scenes, and it is costume heavy. Becca is from Anchorage Press. It is a musical with a fairly small cast. It can be considered a little bit strange, but it is a good show.
John ------------- John |
Posted By: Lazy Bee
Date Posted: 5/09/10 at 4:25am
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Lots of options here: http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/YouthTheatre/Index.htm - http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/YouthTheatre/Index.htm (including a search engine which will help you narrow down the search by genre, age of children, numbers and length). All the scripts can be read in full on the internet, so you know what you are getting, and you can make a judgement as to whether a script will suit your performing group and your target audience. I would like to take a slightly nuanced view of jtonner's remark of "lots of scripts, not much quality". "Quality" can be defined as "fitness for purpose", and it very much depends on what you want a script to do. There are some very popular scripts for kids that I would not wish to stage because they don't do what I want to do in terms of drama - but they suit the purposes of other productions. (However, the same applies to scripts for adults!) ------------- Stuart Lazy Bee Scripts http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk - http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk read complete play scripts on-line |
Posted By: cestdiva
Date Posted: 5/10/10 at 10:40pm
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My brother was in this just after high school and it was darling! http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p289/Clowns'-Play/product_info.html ------------- Cecily Gish |