Playwriting for Children’s Theater
It’s Showtime!
A course by Piers Torday , Children's Author and Playwright
About the video: It’s Showtime!
Overview
“In this lesson, we’ll look at the history of family theatre and why it has never been more popular than today.”
In this video lesson Piers Torday addresses the topic: It’s Showtime!, which is part of the Domestika online course: Playwriting for Children’s Theater. Bring your ideas to life on stage by learning how to write plays for children and families, from the initial idea to opening night.
Partial transcription of the video
“It's Showtime! In this lesson, I want to explore and define what I mean by telling family stories for a live audience. This might mean different things to different cultures around the world. As wonderful and vital as they are, I'm not here to talk about oral traditions of storytelling, or presenting personal family stories for a private audience. I'm talking about the tradition of theatre I know and grew up with like "Peter Pan." "Second to the right, and straight on till morning!" The western tradition of presenting dramatic tales of hope and courage that can speak to our whole family acr...”
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Course summary for: Playwriting for Children’s Theater
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Children's Literature, Communication, Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Script
Piers Torday
A course by Piers Torday
Piers Torday is an author, playwright, and educator from Northumberland, England. As a children’s author, he is dedicated to harnessing the power of imagination through creative writing. The art of writing has always been present in Piers' life: He wrote his first cartoon at age seven, which was about a superhero called Super Sid, and won a competition in a local newspaper. His father, the late Paul Torday, is the author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, which was later adapted into a film.
For Piers, writing children’s novels is a way to engage young readers, inspire them to ask big questions, and shape the minds of tomorrow. His most notable work includes The Lost Magician, The Frozen Sea, The Last Wild Trilogy, and There May Be a Castle. Piers also received the Guardian Award for Children’s Fiction in 2014. In a review for the trilogy, The Times states that Piers is “the new master of books for children.”
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