1/3/2023 0 Comments Play scripts for kids![]() ![]() And he said his own family, which includes young children, has been reading scripts and stories to each other, in a way that “hearkens back to folks gathering around the piano.” As the conversations have turned to the renewed energy and urgency of the Black Lives Matter movement, he has grown increasingly optimistic, he said. He recently contributed a short play to a similar project, Play at Home, designed for families homebound by the pandemic shutdown. There’s always been somewhat of a limitation of how I get that work to people-if you’re not in our city at that time, on that weekend, you’ll miss it.” As he told me last week, “My work has been saying Black lives matter for a while now, but within the traditional structure of the theatre machine. ![]() ![]() Goodwin, whose plays include And in This Corner Cassius Clay, How We Got On, and Hype Man: A Break Beat Play, is excited not only about the plays’ content but about the means of distribution. The plays, which go up today on the website of Theatre for Young Audiences/USA, are designed for children ranging in age from 6 to 14-plus, and include Water Gun Song, about a parent having to explain to a child why a water gun isn’t simply a toy Nothing Rhymes With Juneteenth, in which a child and parent compose a rap for a school presentation Act Free, in which three kids wrestle with the definition of freedom #Matter, a two-hander in which high schoolers debate matters of life and race and Black Flag, in which two new college dorm-mates are getting along swimmingly until one decides to decorate their room with a little piece of “Southern pride.” ![]() Here’s something that might help: five short play scripts for children and families to act out themselves, penned by playwright/poet Idris Goodwin, under the title “Free Play: Open Source Scripts Toward an Antiracist Tomorrow.” If my own household is any indication, parents everywhere are struggling to explain anti-Black police violence-and the worldwide protest movement aimed at ending it-to their kids. ![]()
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