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All the World's my Stage
Three class-room tested, side-splitting comedies take middle and high school students on a tour of history, culture, geography, and literature.  Perfect for stage and classroom.


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Welcome to the Teachers Lounge where you can find ways to increase both the energy and the learning in your classroom.  Many of our scripts have been written by teachers from the trenches who have used plays to enliven their own classrooms and theaters.  Some have notes for production and teaching issues. 


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These works are designed to plunge students into the world of literature, history, and culture through the dramatic experience of plays that can be performed in the classroom or on the school stage.

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American Breeze by Helen Mondloch.  A comic, class-room tested whirlwind tour through American literary history, accompanied by Study Guides for each chapter. This book provides both students and teachers with an excellent way to laugh and learn together. Classes can perform the six acts intermittently throughout the year, or in their entirety at year's end. They can present the play as a class or in small groups, even pick and choose from the acts-- whatever suits their needs. Read more about or purchase this book
A Mirror in Time By Doris Gwaltney  'A wonderful opportunity to introduce students to the magic of monologues and the romance in history and literature. "Two images reflecting two loves and the time in which they lived." ~from the Preface, "A Mirror in Time" This book is a wonderful series of monologues of romantic--and sometimes not-so-romantic--love between people from our historic past: Will Shakespeare, Edgar A. Poe, Tsali of the Cherokee. Johannes Brahms. Harriet Tubman. General and Mrs. Pickett and others.  Read more about 0r purchase  this book
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Full Length Plays

She’ll Find Her Way Home
a love story of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, in two acts by Valetta Anderson (African-American, Anerican History)

The Passing of Grandison
by Charles Chestmutt adapted by Jean Klein  (African-American, Anerican History)

ONE-ACT PLAYS

Oregon Fever
a compelling American teen drama in one act by David Rush (History; American Pioneers)

The Selfish Giant
a full-length fantasy based on Wilde's story by Gillette Elvgren

Everykid
A comic, modern adaptation of Everyman by Gillette Elvgren

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Enemy of the People By David and Jean Klein  Here is the Ibsen you haven't seen:  Ibsen at his comedic best. In a biting comedy that might have been written for our time, Ibsen pillories everyone from government officials, to small town bureaucrats, to the indolent and avaricious common man. A new look at an old classic, this volume includes excerpts from Ibsen's letters relating to the play and a critical analysis by the author. Read more about or purchase this book. 
I Am the Brother of Dragons by Gillette Elvgren
The plays in this anthology were written over a period of ten years primarily for youth at the middle and high school level.  They deal with social problems and can be catalogued as social action/problem/edu-tainment  drama.  They were commissioned by two professional companies, the NEW CITY THEATRE and SALTWORKS THEATRE COMPANY in Pittsburgh, PA.  They have been extensively toured by these and other companies throughout the country and in Canada. 
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An Evening with Joyce's Women:
the dramatizations of three stories from Dubliners: 'The Boarding House,' 'Eveline,' and 'The Dead.'  Ranging from viciously comic to hauntingly melancholy, these dramas draw students into the language and literature of James Joyce
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Macbeth for Kids
adapted from William Shakespeare for children ages 6-12. by Gillette Elvgren

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Retold for Young Audiences  by Gillette Elvgren

The Tempest
an adaptation of Shakespeare's romance by Gillette Elvgren

Shakespeare After School
a 45-minute comedy with scenes from Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and Romeo and Juliet for highschool by D. D. DeLaney

Shakespeare: Playing for Laughs
another 45 minute comedy with scenes from Midsummer Night's Dream. The Winter's Tale, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Merchant of Venice for high school by D. D. DeLaney


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Frankenstein

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Kathleen McBlair
The scripts and books on this page are designed to get students involved in creating their own learning experiences by participating in the drama of history, of literature, and or philosophy and culture.  The plays or spoken word plays here are designed to challenge students to think about the world around them, the world that has come before them, and the future world in which they will live and to which they will contribute;
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