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"Political Plays for Children" - screamingly funny!
They're from Berlin's Grips Theatre (early 1970s) and were translated
by Jack Zipes. http://www.telospress.com/main/index...roducts_id=148 (cover and table of contents) (Just so you know, the plays are political only in the sense that they talk about kids' right to be kids - nothing heavy-duty most of the time.) http://web.grinnell.edu/sandb/archiv...article01.html (description of "Mugnog," - easily the funniest and least controversial - which was performed in recent years at colleges in Iowa and Wisconsin. Songs include "Why Are Grownups Scared of Other Grownups?") "Bizzy, Dizzy, Daffy & Arthur" is about four kids who have no playground available to them and whose neighbors yell at them for making the slightest noise (from what I understand, it's no accident that this play was written in Germany, what with kinderfeindlichkeit and all) so they break into an abandoned building to play and get arrested by a pair of cops, Knick and Knock. Chaos ensues at the police station. What's interesting (SPOILER) is that as an adult reader, you might assume that the cops are playing "good cop / bad cop" at one point, but it turns out that the good cop really is just that! Songs include "Order Makes Up Half Your Life" - sung by the cops. "Man oh Man" is about how sexism and the lack of respect and cooperation within the family can deprive the family of union power against manipulative landlords and bullying bosses and how that can be overcome. Well-written (if dated), but one scene of angry spousal dialogue might be too much for young kids to watch on stage. Songs include "Stand Up, Fight For Your Rights." http://www.loganberrybooks.com/solved-g.html (scroll down to GRIPS and find a list of other plays available in English - though possibly out of print) http://www.grips-theater.de/ (in German) Bits and pieces from the Web: "Call it Barney meets NYPD Blue: Children's programming with upbeat songs and gritty reality is the trademark of Berlin's renowned Grips Theatre. Atlanta's 7 Stages brought the Grips sensibility of producing plays which address children's concerns--rather than the concerns adults have about children--to the U.S. with its recent production of the Grips-developed play Max and Milli by Volker Ludwig. "In the world premiere of this new American version, translated by Kati Koerner and. directed by Grips leading actor Thomas Ahrens, 7 Stages continues an exchange between the two theatres....." http://www.childrenstheatre.org/releases/2003_0505.html International Bridges "International Bridges is a new program that grew from the success of CTC's Neighborhood Bridges program. During the past six years, CTC teaching artists have been working in Minneapolis inner city schools two hours a week for the entire school year. The teaching artists use storytelling and creative drama to develop children's critical literacy. The program teaches young people how to think for themselves, and to express and articulate how they see and imagine themselves in the world. Over 1000 students have been involved in Neighborhood Bridges. This remarkable program was created by Dr. Jack Zipes. "Dr. Zipes has more than 20 years of experience working with children, educators, schools, actors and storytellers in using storytelling techniques to enhance core curriculum. He is an internationally recognized translator of folktales and fairytales. He is a champion of fairytales and children's literature and has written numerous books on those topics. Dr. Zipes is a professor and the Chair of the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch at the University of Minnesota." Lenona. |
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