Anyone Can Produce Plays With Kids: The Absolute Basics of Staging Your Own At-Home, In-School, Round-The-Neighborhood Plays (Young Actors Series)

Anyone Can Produce Plays with Kidsgives you absolute basics required to stage your own plays at home, in school, and in your community for parents and teachers who have little or no drama training.

Parts One through Seven teach the how-to basics of playmaking:

organizing a company
assembling costumes and props
handling technical aspects of production
selecting a script
running rehearsals
directing
Part Eight translates theory into action by presenting three plays in detail from top to bottom.

Making plays with kids is a simple family-centered activity, a potent learning tool for children, a proven method of helping children acquire vital social and communication skills -- and the absolute best way you'll ever find to feel like a kid again yourself!