Theatre For Children: A Guide To Writing, Adapting, Directing, And Acting, Paperback - David Wood
About The About the Author:David Wood has been writing, adapting, directing, and acting in plays for children for more than twenty-five years. "Wood's great quality as a playwright is his confidence in his audience's ability to make giant imaginative leaps, coupled with a refusal to shortchange them artistically. "The challenge," he writes, "is to give a unique theatrical experience to an audience, many of whom will be first-time theatergoers, to involve them emotionally, to sustain their interest in a story, to inspire and excite them using theatricality, to make them laugh, to make them think, to move them, to entertain and educate them by triggering their imaginations. He reveals his special techniques for catching and holding a child's attention, provides a practical handbook illustrated with excerpts from his plays, and offers a behind-the-scenes look at the work that goes into them
He reveals his special techniques for catching and holding a child's attention, provides a practical handbook illustrated with excerpts from his plays, and offers a behind-the-scenes look at the work that goes into them. Wood here draws upon his experience as a magician, actor, director, producer, composer, and playwright, and analyzes the skills involved in entertaining and involving audiences of children everywhere. His best-known work has enjoyed international success and has entered the repertory of amateur companies and school dramatic societies. "The challenge," he writes, "is to give a unique theatrical experience to an audience, many of whom will be first-time theatergoers, to involve them emotionally, to sustain their interest in a story, to inspire and excite them using theatricality, to make them laugh, to make them think, to move them, to entertain and educate them by triggering their imaginations." This comprehensive guide written with Janet Grant is essential reading for professionals and amateurs alike and for anyone wishing to be involved in the theatre for children.About the Author:David Wood has been writing, adapting, directing, and acting in plays for children for more than twenty-five years. David Wood has been called by the London Times "the national children's dramatist." Presenting theatre for children as a separate art form, Mr. He also examines the business side of children's theatre, showing exactly how a good synopsis will help to sell an idea. "Wood's great quality as a playwright is his confidence in his audience's ability to make giant imaginative leaps, coupled with a refusal to shortchange them artistically."--Financial Times.
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