Theatre on a Tabletop: Puppetry for Small Spaces

Product Code: TK3000

Theatre on a Tabletop teaches you how to do a number of things—put on a performance using a salt and pepper shaker and a banana, make a theater out of a cardboard box, disassemble a broken umbrella into dozens of parts for puppet building, play with shadows on the overhead projector, and put on a series of workshops that go from planning sessions to performance. It encompasses a philosophy of theatre and education and a look at the origins and history of this specialized art form and its connections to art and society. It shares the personal journeys of two extraordinary artisteachers and some of their award-winning professional puppet scripts for the company they founded and continue to lead: Chinese Theatre Works.

Bringing the Word Alive - Children's Writings: Process to Performance

Product Code: BD6000

This book is about developing that art form and bringing together the voices of many children to achieve a collective dramatic work for the stage or the classroom. The authors share their extensive experience in helping bring these achievements about—initiating the writing, creating the collage, and bringing the children's words alive on stage.

The Enchanted Attic

Product Code: E57000

Approx. Run Time: 60 min.

Three children, stranded in the attic of their great-aunt's Victorian mansion while searching for a lost treasure, discover that the attic window has mysterious powers of transformation. Of course, the children's wishes call up the characters and settings dear to children's hearts: a spooky atmosphere full of lurking shadows, a talking cat, pirate ships, and a puppet theater in which the marionettes come to life.

Canterbury Tales

Product Code: CF6000

Approx. Run Time: 75 min.

Step across the threshold of the Tabard Inn and enter 14th-century England, not as a passive spectator but as an active participant, the innkeeper's honored guests. This is hearty fare for your audiences who want action, conflict and the stuff of real life—plus the thrill of participating!

Women of Wonder

Product Code: WC3000

Approx. Run Time: 60 min.

They're strong. They're wild. They're brave. They're wonderful! They're America's folk heroines, brought to life on the stage. We know all the men, but how many of us know the larger-than-life gals who share the world of tall tales with them?