Sunday, 12 January 2014

'Theatre For Children' Research

'Theatre For Children' is theatre that specialises in plays for young audiences. The story line is drawn from history, folk, literature for children, fairy tales, real life issues or a completely original idea.


Here are some videos of 'Theatre For Children:
http://youtu.be/Uwz6VJzwZzI
The Cat in The Hat- This show demonstrates the amount of physicality appropriate for children's theatre.
http://youtu.be/kmJSQ3zVM8k
A Year With Frog And Toad- This show demonstrated the use of Musical Theatre in a play for children.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWwYt3O-MAo
Charlotte's Web- This show demonstrated the use of hand puppets in 'Theatre for Children'.

Due to the fact that my group is considering doing a show based on various Fairy tales I have been studying some popular characters, in order to determine which might be useful for our project.

I have also been watching 'Once Upon A Time', which is a TV series which incorporates Fairytale Characters into the real world, revealing both their lives in their well-known Fairy tales and their new lives in the our world. It demonstrates a way in which we could bring Fairytale characters from different stories together, as well as a way of modernising their stories to highlight real-life issues. It's also an example of how dark fairytales for children can be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rga4rp4j5TY

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