Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 20:28:18 -0500
From: Alexandria_Marro-AT-Brown.edu (xander)
Subject: Re: puppet play scripts


>Hello!  My name is Jeannette LeBlanc.  I am special education teacher
>working with gifted students.  Part of my program includes an intensive
>section on puppetry.  The students make their own puppets, learn about
>staging, and producing, and of course, working together.  However, we are
>in desperate need of puppet plays.  If you have any scripts that you can
>share with us please send them as soon as possible!  The students age
>from 9-10 and 12-16 and need plays that are 3-5 min and 5-10 min long.
>Thank-you very much,
>Jeannette LeBlanc and students
>
>While i'd have to agree with who ever it was that suggested that you have
>your students write the plays themselves, as an undergrad who's spent a
>little too much time locked in librarys reasearching this stuff with no
>interested friends to gush to it all about...well i just couldn't help
>responding...

it's been a semester since i've done much research and right now my head's
all filled up with finals...but there's definately a bunch of material out
there.. i found piles of plays that were written by people involved with
boys and girls clubs durring the works progress adminstration...i think a
lot of them were pretty short too. i also found a book that i can't
remember now who wrote or published..but it's from i think the '30s that
provides plot summeries of like a 100 or some really big number of
plays...the idea was that you could writed away directly to the authors for
the scripts...send a dollar in an envlope etc... it would probablly be near
impossible to find many of the scripts but i was kind of into checking out
what kinds of themes and narrative structures turn up over and over in
puppet plays, and then writing plays that were loosly based upon the breif
synapses....anyway if yer into it i can go through some old research and
tell you more...i'm not sure if i can xerox any of the stuff though because
it's all kept in the john hay library here which is the library with the
million rules and i'm pretty sure that they don't let people xerox
stuff...you can't even take stuff out or go into the reading room with
anything other than a number two pencil and stuff. anyway good luck...i
wish all teachers submerged kids in intensive puppet activity at an
impressionable age.
>
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