Playwriting for Children’s Theater
Preparing a Live Performance
A course by Piers Torday , Children's Author and Playwright
About the video: Preparing a Live Performance
Overview
“What are the creative challenges of presenting live work and what are the rewards? Let's find out. ”
In this video lesson Piers Torday addresses the topic: Preparing a Live Performance, 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
“Preparing a Live Performance In this lesson, we'll look at the opportunities, challenges, and risks of choosing to share a story live in front of an audience. I love this quote from Dr. Seuss. "You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who'll decide where to go." While writing a play, you'll collaborate with many people, but in the beginning, you are on your own. In many ways, I can't recommend writing a play, to be completely honest. They're hard to write, harder to get on, and often expensive to produce. There is no guarantee that an audience will turn up and eve...”
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Course summary for: Playwriting for Children’s Theater
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Areas
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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