Download or read book Playwriting for Puppet Theatre written by Jean M. Mattson and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1997-07-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playwriting for Puppet Theatre provides a foundation for those puppeteers, teachers and librarians who want to develop suitable scripts for puppet theatre. Mattson explores the difference between traditional theatre and puppet theatre and notes the special characteristics of the various puppets. The important aspects of script writing are then addressed. She considers the many general questions which must be answered by the playwright: the type of puppet to be used, the audience, and availability of resources and facilities. Suggestions are then given for dramatizing original ideas and for adapting well-known stories. The chapter on plot development emphasizes the importance of perspective, transitional material and the need for action. One chapter proposes various ways to develop a character through dialogue, names, and behavior. Another chapter demonstrates how the use of rhyme can add interest and humor to a puppet play. Teachers will find suggestions on how to develop a play on a specific theme or about a specific character. Some attention is also given to the mechanics of writing a play. Includes a group of puppet plays which have been successfully performed by Seattle Puppetory Theatre. Among them are Rumplestiltskin, The Princess and the Pea, The Bad-Tempered Wife, The Golden Axe, The Swineherd, and The Fisherman and His Wife. Production notes follow each script. Several samples of manipulation charts are included which may be used as an aid in blocking the puppets and the puppeteers for the various hand puppet productions.
Download or read book Writing 45 Minute One Act Plays Skits Monologues Animation Scripts for Drama Workshops written by Anne Hart and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's a guide book on how to write 45-minute one-act plays, skits, and monologues for all ages. Step-by-step strategies and sample play, monologue, and animation script offer easy-to-understand solutions for drama workshop leaders, high-school and university drama directors, teachers, students, parents, coaches, playwrights, scriptwriters, novelists, storytellers, camp counselors, actors, lifelong learning instructors, biographers, facilitators, personal historians, and senior center activity directors. Guide young people in an intergenerational experience of interviewing and writing skits, plays, and monologues based on the significant events and experiences from lives of people. Learn to write skits, plays and monologues based on historical events and personalities. What you'll get out of this book and the exercises of writing one-act plays for teenage actors and audiences of all-ages audience, are improved skills in adapting all types of social issues, current events, or life experience to 45-minute one-act plays, skits, or monologues for teenage or older adult drama workshops. How do you write plays and skits from life stories, current events, social issues, or history? Are you looking for the appropriate 45-minute, one-act play for high-school students or other teenagers, for community center drama workshops, or even for home school projects or for events and celebrations? Are you seeking one-act plays for older adults drama workshops? Use personal or biographical experiences as examples when you write your skit or play. If you want a really original play, write, revise, and adapt your own plays, skits, and monologues. Here's how to do it.
Download or read book Edges of Truth written by Deb Brammer and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Weaver tries to save the life of 11-month-old Melissa Mathes, but the baby dies after being in Mary's care, and Mary is accused of first-degree murder. Steve Brennecke, a young lawyer and a friend of Mary's, takes the case. He is convinced of Mary's innocence and sets out to clear Mary's name and keep this young mother out of prison. Mary's case splits the medical community. One group of doctors, eager to stamp out child abuse, insists the baby had to be shaken and slammed during the time Mary was alone with her. Another group believes scientific evidence points away from Mary. The jury doesn't know what to think. Edges of Truth is an account of justice gone wrong, the fight to clear an innocent woman's name, and the community who supported her. --from publisher description.
Download or read book How to Turn Poems Lyrics Folklore into Salable Children s Books written by Anne Hart and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-08-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to adapt your poem to a storybook that tells a story in words, and pictures-or only amplify the images that you create with words? Would you rather turn your poem into a picture book that tells a story with pictures? Will words take second place to illustrations? Decide first whether you will write a story book or a picture book. Then use the images in your poem to clarify your writing. You won't be able to read a picture book into a tape recorder or turn it into an audio book or radio play. You will be able to narrate a word book for audio playing. Start with an inspirational poem, proverb, or song lyrics. Ask children what makes them laugh. You can make something out of nothing. You can make a story out of anything intangible, such as an idea with a plan still in your mind. Capture your children's dreams, proverbs, song lyrics, and the surprise elements that make them laugh. Record imagination, "what-if" talk, and personal history. A folktale or story is something that could come from any place in the past, from science, or from nothing that you can put your hands on. What children want in a book, poem, or folklore is a cave where they can go to be themselves. When suspending belief, children still want to be themselves as they navigate fantasy. The story book becomes a den or tree house where children can go inside, shut the door, and play. Introduce children to poetry by showing how you transform your poem into a children's book by expanding and emphasizing significant events in the life story of one child. Poems, memorable experiences, significant life events or turning points are all ways to make something out of nothing tangible. You begin re-working a concept, framework, or vision. Here's how to write, publish, and promote salable material from concept to framework to poem to children's book-step-by-step.
Download or read book One Person Puppetry Streamlined and Simplified written by Yvonne Amar Frey and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2005 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive guide to puppetry designed to enhance story times and other library events and provides techniques to creating inexpensive props along with thirty-eight folktale scripts.
Download or read book The Power of Scriptwriting written by Peter Gutierrez and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dynamic resource offers teachers a new way to energize the teaching of writing while also meeting Common Core State Standards. The author draws on his unique background in education and media to provide this all-in-one resource to help teachers use the versatility of scriptwriting to motivate students and support literacy skills across the disciplines. Each chapter covers a different medium, outlining the writing skills required and providing practical tips, sample projects, standards alignment, and strategies for differentiated instruction. Book Featues: the rationale, curricular connections, lessons, and projects to help teachers incorporate scriptwriting into their existing writing curriculum; authentic connections to students' in-school and out-of-school literacies; easy-to-use sections, such as Why Teach This? Skills Focus, Literacy Across the Disciplines, QuickStart lesson launchers, and The Writing Process; robust differentiated instruction including specific strategies for English language learners and below-level students; and appendices with Additional Resources, Revision Checklists, Writing Rubrics, and a glossary of Media and Script terms.
Download or read book Puppet Play Therapy written by Athena A. Drewes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puppet Play Therapy is a comprehensive guidebook that describes the basic skills, techniques, and applications for selecting and working with puppets in specific types of settings and populations. Written by preeminent voices in the field, chapters offer invaluable guidance on selecting, using, and assessing puppet-based therapeutic interventions. Both beginning and experienced clinicians will also appreciate the inclusion of practical, step-by-step approaches and reproducible handouts that will aid them in their puppet play therapy sessions.
Download or read book The Firebird Chronicles written by Daniel Ingram-Brown and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fantasy adventure, Fletcher and Scoop are Apprentice Adventurers from the ancient establishment of Blotting's Academy on Fullstop Island. This is the place where all story characters are trained. The trouble is, they can't remember how they got there. It's the first day of term, but the two apprentices soon realise something is wrong. Things are going missing, including their own memories, and Scoop has the unsettling feeling that something is creeping in the shadows. As the children search for answers, they become entangled with the life of the Storyteller, the islands creator and king. They journey to his wedding banquet and find themselves uncovering a hidden past. What is their connection to this mysterious man? And is there more to him than meets the eye? ,
Download or read book Ventriloquism Made Easy written by Kolby King and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1997-06-17 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to speak without lip movement, develop dialogue and special effects, use props, plan a show, and much more. Indispensable for the absolute beginner.
Download or read book Puppet Play written by Diana Schoenbrun and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents step-by-step instructions on crafting twenty puppets, including monsters, animals, and people.
Download or read book Instant Puppet Skits written by Mikal Keefer and published by Group Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use 20 Stories From People Who Met Jesus to enliven favorite Bible stories and to introduce children to puppeteering! Lead kids to discover more about Jesus from the people who knew him best--those he met...like one of the shepherds, Zacchaeus, a Roman soldier, and more! You will get: 2 compact discs with audio for each script. You and your puppeteer friends don't have to worry about digging up sound effects or reading the lines as you perform. It's already done for you! Scripture reference in Table of Contents, Directions for creating a stage, Simple Bible costumes for puppets, Reproducible patterns for props, Reproducible scripts with staging instructions, And a Puppet Primer with tips for powerful and imaginative productions. The twenty scripts you'll find in Instant Puppet Skits have something in common: each features a Bible character who met Jesus and shares a personal insight. John the Baptist tells his would-be, disgusted director that he is not the star attraction, that his purpose was to prepare people to follow Jesus, and while Lazarus tries to collect a refund on his burial, he explains eternal life for those who believe. And you'll find that the scripts have other things in common too: Scripts have no more than four puppets on stage at any one time, and you can re-use the same four "actors" with different costumes to limit the costs of the puppets! Four or less puppets per script makes it easy for you to recruit enough puppeteers! Yet the audience is involved. In "Fish and Loaves", the audience acts the part of the crowd, each of them stuffed with food. After each script you'll find group discussion points in the "For Deeper Learning" section.
Download or read book Hattie and the Fox written by Mem Fox and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hattie the Hen spots the danger--but no none seems to care!"--Pg 4 of cover.
Download or read book Puppet Power written by Nancy M. Laughlin and published by Good Year Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educational resource for teachers, parents and kids!
Download or read book Puppet Best Practices written by Chris Barbour and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you maintain or plan to build Puppet infrastructure, this practical guide will take you a critical step further with best practices for managing the task successfully. Authors Chris Barbour and Jo Rhett present best-in-class design patterns for deploying Puppet environments and discuss the impact of each. The conceptual designs and implementation patterns in this book will help you create solutions that are easy to extend, maintain, and support. Essential for companies upgrading their Puppet deployments, this book teaches you powerful new features and implementation models that weren’t available in the older versions. DevOps engineers will learn how best to deploy Puppet with long-term maintenance and future growth in mind. Explore Puppet’s design philosophy and data structures Get best practices for using Puppet’s declarative language Examine Puppet resources in depth—the building blocks of state management Learn to model and describe business and site-specific logic in Puppet See best-in-class models for multitiered data management with Hiera Explore available options and community experience for node classification Utilize r10k to simplify and accelerate Puppet change management Review the cost benefits of creating your own extensions to Puppet Get detailed advice for extending Puppet in a maintainable manner
Download or read book Puppetry A Reader in Theatre Practice written by Penny Francis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sophisticated and compelling introduction to puppet theatre, Penny Francis offers engaging contemporary perspectives on this universal art-form. She provides an account of puppetry's different facets, from its demands and techniques, through its uses and abuses, to its history and philosophy. Now recognized as a valuable and powerful medium used in the making of most forms of theatre and filmed work, those referring to Puppetry will discover something of the roots, dramaturgy, literature and techniques of this visual art form. The book gathers together material from an international selection of sources, bringing puppet theatre to life for the student, practitioner and amateur alike.
Download or read book A Bucketful of Ideas for Church Drama written by Fay Rowland and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special Offer! Order now to take advantage of the special price.Do you want drama without the, well, drama? Need something awesome for all-age worship, sketches for schools or just want to bring a well-known Bible story alive with the smack-between-the-eyes relevance it got from Jesus?Fresh scripts launch God's timeless word like a rocket. "Parables as Jesus would have told them - witty, punchy and thought-provoking." Christmas and Easter? Sorted. Some quiet and meditative, some a-pun-a-minute - there's a script for every occasion. Meet Elijah's ravens on holiday. Meet texting angels. Meet the Big Bad Cat. Then slow down and relive Good Friday through the eyes of one who was there - Jesus, remember me. Using puppets to express our doubts and confusions is a great way to address the unasked questions. A grandma confessed after one puppet show that she had never understood that Bible story, until now - Click!Drama isn't just for kids. We take a sideways look at our grown-up busyness with the gameshow 'Real Christian', and perhaps in the laughter we can find a truth. Limited resources? No problem. Based on many years' experience with drama and puppetry for schools, churches and community groups, these scripts are immensely practical to suit your room, rehearsals and recruits. Each script has suggestions for characters and props, and the hands-on hints for staging make drama a 'can-do' option, so you can concentrate on the message.To complete the package, the final chapters outline methods for working with puppets and give pointers for using drama outdoors. There are lots of ideas for constructing your own puppet theatre, with designs from small, roll-away up versions to folding, semi-permanent ones.This is the first in the 'A Bucketful of Ideas' series. It is based on the international blog of church resources, The Reflectionary, written by Fay Rowland - lecturer, writer and, as it so happens, puppeteer.Ever wondered what you need to be a *Real* Christian?Click the 'Buy' button, and find out ...Reviewers say: "A Bucketful of Ideas - ideas to educate, entertain and evangelise.""The whole book covers a good range of topics, themes, and styles; together a great variety.""The scripts are funny, punny, expository and engaging.""Creativity in this book in not just in the directions and dialogues it's in the accessible pragmatism as well." "Time-Travel TV is my favourite script ... I always enjoying routine time travel and 'wiggling'!""The introductions to each script are the keys to their convenience, it was good to know which props to expect, which items were optional and some scripts even gave clear permission to improvise and paraphrase.""Very thankful for the puppet theatres section at the back." "30 Pieces of Chocolate is a fine pun-run."Remember to click 'Buy'!
Download or read book Creative Puppetry for Jewish Kids written by Gale Solotar Warshawsky and published by Behrman House, Inc. This book was released on 1985 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete, easy-to-follow instructions for making box puppets and theaters, drinking straw puppets, tagboard puppets, paper puppets, sock puppets, and more, with diagrams and lists of supplies. Includes creative suggestions for teaching Jewish subjects-including Hebrew-with puppets and an extensive bibliography on puppets, plays, and materials.
