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All the World's a Stage, Vol. III

Welcome to six more globe-trotting one-acts with various plays for ages 8-18. Flex-gendered roles and cultural insights are incorporated into plays from Africa, Finland, India, Russia and the USA.

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Description

  • Collection / Anthology
  • Drama

  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings, Bare Stage/Simple Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Elementary School / Primary, Community Theatre, Jr High/Primary, Professional Theatre, Outdoor, Shoestring Budget, Reader's Theatre, Church / Religious Groups
Namaste, wa ho te sen. Welcome to six more globe-trotting one-acts with various plays for ages 8-18. Flex-gendered roles and cultural insights are incorporated into plays from Africa, Finland, India, Russia and the USA. Discovering inner qualities beyond appearances, modern day children time-warped back to pioneer days, children and parents at odds with each other, and what brings happiness in life are some of the timeless and universal lessons that folktales bring to bear on our own journey.

Titles Include:
The Healing Leaves, a folk tale from Russia
Johnny Appleseed in Cyberspace, a folk tale from the United States
Search for Perfection, a folk tale from Nigeria
Song of the Sea, a folk tale from Finland
The Hand of Friendship, a folk tale from India
The Prideful Princess, a folktale from the Ashanti People of Ghana

Each play is accompanied by cultural/historical production notes and a glossary or foreign words.

Premiere Production: All of the multicultural plays in each of the three volumes of All the World’s a Stage were first performed by MetaStages, a youth theatre outreach program at Penn State University. The plays were developed from folktales by MetaStages founder and director, Joann Rose Leonard.

Characters

  • Casting: 9M, 31F, 62M or F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Ensemble cast, Minority casting, Flexible casting, Room for Extras, Cross gender casting, Features Children, Color blind casting, Roles for Children
  • Casting Notes: Up to 102 characters in whole collection. Roles can be doubled for a cast of 21, including at least 4 males and 8 females.

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Namaste, wa ho te sen. Welcome to six more globe-trotting one-acts with various plays for ages 8-18. Flex-gendered roles and cultural insights are incorporated into plays from Africa, Finland, India, Russia and the USA. Discovering inner qualities beyond appearances, modern day children time-warped back to pioneer days, children and parents at odds with each other, and what brings happiness in life are some of the timeless and universal lessons that folktales bring to bear on our own journey.Titles Include:
The Healing Leaves, a folk tale from Russia
Johnny Applseed in Cyberspace, a folk tale from the United States
Search for Perfection, a folk tale from Nigeria
Song of the Sea, a folk tale from Finland
The Hand of Friendship, a folk tale from India
The Prideful Princess, a folktale from the Ashanti People of GhanaEach play is accompanied by cultural/historical production notes and a glossary or foreign words.

$24.95

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