Synopsis
Don't Tell Me I Can't Fly - 10 Plays for Children and Families
Published by Dramatic Publishing
This Anthology contains original plays, adaptations from literature and "listening plays" including work based on research and interviews with living people
The 10 (mostly) full-length Plays in this great-value Collection are...
The Garden of Rikki Tikki Tavi ~ Y York from Rudyard Kipling - 5 M or F
A loose adaptation of Kipling's classic. Nobody dies in this free-flowing, comic brawl!
Runs about 65 minutes
The Last Paving Stone - M2,F4
Ito can hear the cement covered ground talking
And when she is threatened with the forever-silence of the ground, she risks the ire of her Pa to share the sound with normal-eared people
And learns that being different is not such a bad thing after all
Runs about 65 minutes
Mask of the Unicorn Warrior - M3,F2
Crown Prince Tycho leaves to cure his weakness, by killing a unicorn like his father before him
But Tycho is unable to kill the creature and turns for home
And then meets Mercurial, who claimed to be a survivor of shipwreck
Their fates intertwine in this tale of love and deception.
Runs about 70 minutes
The Portrait The Wind The Chair - M1,F2
During the windstorm of the century, Lucy and her sister find themselves marooned alone in Grandma's old house
Where they must deal with a chair with a mind of its own
And a dead Grandma who won't stay in her portrait
Runs about 75 minutes
The Forgiving Harvest -M5,F1.
Mika musters all of her 9-year-old resources to save Sticky-the-Cow, who she helped deliver while her own mother was on her deathbed.
Runs about 90 minutes
Nothing Is the Same ~ M3,F1
On the island of O'hau, on December 7th, 1941, four young boys' lives will be changed forever
School has stopped all together, they learn to spot enemy planes and have become wary of their Japanese neighbors
Will outside challenges force endings to friendships?
Runs about 70 minutes
River Rat and Cat By - 3 M/ F
River Rat hauled a drowning Cat from a sinking basket thinking he had some unique collectible
Since then all of the river creatures have been dismayed by the camaraderie of this unlikely duo
But when Rat becomes frazzled by Cat's demands, Dale Beaver sees a perfect moment to break up the friendship and take the tree property River Rat owns
A Keystone Kops kind of komedy for kids and their kin
Runs about 60 minutes
Eggs - From the novel by Jerry Spinelli - M2,F3
David enlists the help of the weirdly obtuse Primrose to ensure the return of his dead mother
Meanwhile Primrose has issues with her own psychic mother
Runs about 65 minutes
Getting Near to Baby -adapted from the Newbery Honor Book by Audrey Couloumbis - M2,F6
Reeling from the death of their baby sister, 12-year-old Willa Jo Dean and 7-year-old Little Sister Dean, are sent to stay with Aunt Patty so their mom can recover
Runs about 90 minutes
Don't Tell Me I Can't Fly - M2,F3
Inspired by the life and art of Della Wells, this tells of nine-year-old Tonia growing up in a working-class, African-American home in Milwaukee in 1964
Her artistic soul is at odds with her parents' fears and pragmatism
Her efforts to please and appease them are in conflict with her own needs and desires
Tonia finds her way, the only way possible, by allowing her parents to see her true self with all its flaws, beauty and possibilities
Runs about 65 minutes