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 > > >_______________________________________________ > > >List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org > > >Admin interface: > > > >http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org > > >Archives: http://www.driftline.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org > > Admin interface: > > >http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org > > Archives: http://www.driftline.org > > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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