Around the World in 21 Plays : Theatre for

Includes: The Flying Doctor (Moliere) * The Love of Three Oranges (Langston Hughes) * Escape to Freedom (Ossie Davis) * No Worries (David Holman) * Soul Gone Home (Langston Hughes) * and more!

Introduction: Reading Plays

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PART ONE: PLAYS FROM THE PAST FOR PERFORMANCE TODAY

England

3

(16)

Jack Juggler

The first play written expressly for children to perform

France: The Flying Doctor

19

(16)

Moliere

Sganarelle plays Doctor and everyone feels better!

Italy: The Love of Three Oranges

35

(14)

Carlo Gozzi

The scenario of a fairy-tale play to be improvised by a group of players

England: Punch and Judy: Their Tragical Comedy, Their Comical Tragedy

49

(18)

The traditional play for puppets and actors

Sweden: Lucky Peter's Journey

67

(38)

August Strindberg

A teenager searches for values and finds love

Poland: Childhood Plays

105

(24)

Stanislaw Witkiewicz

Three theatrical fantasies by an imaginative boy

France: Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters

129

(8)

Gertrude Stein

A melodrama that is not a melodrama

USA: Soul Gone Home

137

(10)

Langston Hughes

A short play about life and death in the Ghetto

PART TWO: PLAYS BY CONTEMPORARY PLAYWRIGHTS FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES

New York City: Maggie Magalita

147

(56)

Wendy Kesselman

Three generations of Hispanic women dwelling in a tiny appartment

Canada: The Ice Wolf

203

(32)

Joanna Halpert Kraus

A mythic tale of Inuit shamans, spirits, and superstitions

Sweden: Medea's Children

235

(44)

Per Lysander

Suzanne Osten

A classical legend as seen by children of divorce

Southern USA: Wiley and the Hairy Man

279

(40)

Suzan Zeder

Adventure set deep in the mysterious Tombigee Swamp

Maryland: Escape to Freedom

319

(54)

Ossie Davis

Young Frederick Douglass learns to read and yearns for freedom

Any Urban Slum: Rats

373

(16)

Israel Horovitz

A play for two rats and a baby

USA: The Pinballs

389

(42)

Aurand Harris

Life in a foster home, dramatized from the award-winning novel by Betsy Byars

Australia: No Worries

431

(56)

David Holman

In Australia, nine-year old Matty Bell and her family must move from the countryside to the big city

New York City: A Visit from St. Nicholas, or the Night before Christmas

487

(36)

Lowell Swortzell

On Christmas Eve, 1822, Clement Clark Moore's house is not quiet as a mouse---in fact, everyone is stirring!

Tennessee: Big Mary

523

(38)

Mark Medoff

As the song says, ``They hung the elephant in Eddington, Tennessee.'' A play for high school performers

USA: Afternoon of the Elves

561

(54)

Y York

Sara Kate faces illusion and reality at school, home and, especially in her backyard, a junkheap where the elves reside. Adapted from the novel by Janet Taylor Lisle

China and San Francisco: Dragonwings

615

(42)

Lawrence Yep

A father and son build an airplane in San Francisco's Chinatown at the turn of the century. Based on Yep's famous novel

England: How to Write a Play

657

(20)

Peter Terson

Everything you need to know

Afterword: A New Age in Theatre for Young Audiences

677

(12)

Play List: Other Plays of Interest

689

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