Staging a play with children can be a fun and rewarding experience for everyone involved. Here are some general steps to help you successfully stage a play with kids: Remember to keep things fun and relaxed, and encourage the children to express their creativity and individuality throughout the process.
Choosing a Play Script For Kids – The Starting Point
What to think about when looking to produce a play for kids.
Roald Dahl Play Script Collection
Roald Dahl, who died in 1990, was one of the foremost children’s writers of the 20th century. Starting in the 1940s, when children’s stories were still typically safe and instructive Dahl developed a style that was unsentimental, dark and often grotesque – his characters and stories often owned more to nightmares than to dreams. Yet children love them… Continue reading Roald Dahl Play Script Collection
Latest Play Script
Here is the latest play script from our updated catalogue:
Top 10 plays for older kids
Choosing plays for older kids to perform is not always easy – too old for the simpler, shorter pieces to be satisfying but without the experience and range of adult performers this age group is tricky to choose for. We’ve rummaged through our script library and racked out brains to come up with a collection… Continue reading Top 10 plays for older kids
Play Scripts Catalogue
Our catalogue of children’s play scripts is broken into categories to make it easy for you to find what you want. You can browse through plays for large or small casts. There is a specific section for free scripts which can be downloaded immediately. If you are looking for Shakespeare or other classics they have… Continue reading Play Scripts Catalogue
Puppetry for Kids
We love puppets for kids for all sorts of reasons. Puppet-making and performances exist in all cultures and all ages. Puppets can be improvised from the simplest, cheapest materials and yet fire the imagination of both the puppeteer and and audience. Yet while puppetry for kids can be simple and easy, puppets can also yield… Continue reading Puppetry for Kids
The Snowman on Stage
There is a list of things without which Christmas would not be complete: a tree, turkey and carols. And since 1982 The Snowman by Raymond Briggs has been part of that list. The Snowman started life in 1978 as a picture book which was a runner up for the Kate Greenaway Medal and won the Lewis… Continue reading The Snowman on Stage
Make Your Kids Drama Production Fly
This is the time of year when many people are busy rehearsing plays and musicals in time for performances around Christmas time: school plays, youth drama groups and amateur companies are all at it. If you are in charge of a kids drama production this year then this is for you, as we have rounded… Continue reading Make Your Kids Drama Production Fly
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows seems to be the children’s classic of the moment with news reaching us that Blackadder star Tony Robinson will appear in the Royal Opera House’s production when it transfers to the West End’s Duchess Theatre in December (Tony Robinson to star in The Wind in the Willows). Meanwhile, in the digital… Continue reading The Wind in the Willows