File puptcrit/puptcrit.0608, message 146


From: "Brett Roberts" <bdr1020-AT-hotmail.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:52:15 -0500
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Question for children's show performers


Good ideas Robert. This is a ventriloquist routine, so I'm the logical 
choice for a "father" figure.

Brett



Brett Roberts
The Comedian for Kids
http://kidscomedian.com/

Brett's school and library shows
http://educationalmagician.com/

Brett's Comedian for Kids Blog
http://kidscomedian.blogspot.com/






>From: Robert Trevi <trevicollection-AT-yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
>To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
>Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Question for children's show performers
>Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:30:43 -0700 (PDT)
>
>The idea that God is watching, or that someone will
>one day know about our secret sins, is perhaps a
>blunt, but nevertheless effective policeman to keep
>society civil.  Though it may be that you cannot use
>God as the policeman in public shows not associated
>with a particular church (Sunday school puppet shows),
>you could have a character who serves as the
>conscience for your thief.
>
>And, as it is a puppet show, it could definitely be
>the puppeteer him or herself, either working a
>marionette or a hand puppet.  The puppeteer could
>appear with the puppet on stage, and any disapproval
>from the puppeteer could be handled in a comic way.
>Or... the puppeteer could be the one who makes a moral
>lapse, and the puppet could disapprove.  Maybe that
>would work if the puppeteer warns the puppet about
>taking something without permission once or twice...
>and then the puppet returns the compliment when the
>puppeteer is tempted to take something.
>
>Or... maybe the omniscient god could be replaced by a
>character, like a respected grandparent or friend (or
>a non-sectarian angel, balanced by a definitely
>non-denominational devil), who would be disappointed
>by the main character stealing and hurting another.
>Instead of focusing on spiritual punishment, or even
>an earthly spanking (or long prison
>stretch), the playwright could focus on how
>disappointed someone the main character respects would
>be if the main character stole.
>
>That, after all, is also a way to look at God's
>disapproval of one member of his creation stealing
>from another... that's it's letting God down that
>matters, not that God will release the Hounds of Hell.
>
>Though Hounds of Hell, and Greek Furies, are nothing
>to be laughed at.
>
>Of course, Oscar Wilde did a pretty good job of
>depicting the effect of sin on the soul of a person
>who appears to get away with all sorts of enormities
>in the classic "Portrait of Dorian Gray."    The
>portrait itself rots away to show Gray's inner moral
>rot, while he dances through life, swollen on pleasure
>and even murder, until the effects of his naughtiness
>are finally visited upon him.  One doesn't have to be
>a member of any one religion -- or any religion at all
>-- to understand what that story is trying to say.
>
>Robert
>
>--- Brett Roberts <bdr1020-AT-hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It's not really a spiritual
> > >issue as much as a respect issue --
> >
> > Thanks Linda!
> >
> > As a child, I always had it drilled into my head
> > that I shouldn't do bad
> > things because "God is watching me". That helps a
> > lot. I was trying to
> > figure out what a child's point of view would be. I
> > don't know why this was
> > giving me writers block, but it was.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brett
> >
> > Brett Roberts
> > The Comedian for Kids
> > http://kidscomedian.com/
> >
> > Brett's school and library shows
> > http://educationalmagician.com/
> >
> > Brett's Comedian for Kids Blog
> > http://kidscomedian.blogspot.com/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: LSnyder262-AT-aol.com
> > >Reply-To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
> > >To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
> > >Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Question for children's
> > show performers
> > >Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:49:54 EDT
> > >
> > >
> > >In a message dated 8/21/06 9:44:08 AM,
> > bdr1020-AT-hotmail.com writes:
> > >
> > >
> > > > I'm finding it difficult teaching this moral
> > without
> > > > bringing in spiritual beliefs. The problem I'm
> > having is that sometimes
> > > > people get away with stealing so there aren't
> > any consequences to this
> > > > behavior. There are long term consequences, but
> > kids K- 3rd grade might
> > >not
> > > > understand that.
> > > >
> > >If your target is K   - 3, I don't think you need
> > to overcomplicate the
> > >message. Stealing is wrong because -- from the
> > child's poing of view --
> > >they
> > >wouldn't like it if someone stole their things. Put
> > it in Golden Rule terms
> > >and
> > >don't even bring up how people sometimes get away
> > with it. After all,
> > >people get
> > >away with just about any crime or sin you can name.
> > It's not really a
> > >spiritual
> > >issue as much as a respect issue -- one of the many
> > constraints we impose
> > >on
> > >ourselves so we can live together as a society.
> > >
> > >Linda
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