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  • 1.  Intergenerational Show Ideas

    Posted 08-17-2023 14:04

    Hello, everyone!

    I am working with the local senior citizen center to put together some type of variety show. Perhaps monologues? A one act? Dancing? I am looking for a fun and clever way for high school student and senior citizens to interact in a theatrical setting. I posted a similar question back in 2015, but I am looking for new and fresh ideas. Thanks in advance for your creative ideas/suggestions!

    Cheers, Shana



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    Shana DeRose-Smith
    Perkins High School
    OH
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  • 2.  RE: Intergenerational Show Ideas

    Posted 08-18-2023 06:57
    Edited by julia miles 08-19-2023 09:55

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  • 3.  RE: Intergenerational Show Ideas

    Posted 08-18-2023 09:45
    I always loved having the students interview senior citizens about memories of the lives and dramatize the senior's stories. Sometimes the high school student play the senior citizen's parents and the senior citizen play themselves at a much younger age. Students learned songs and dances of the senior citizen's teen years and performed with period costume. --



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  • 4.  RE: Intergenerational Show Ideas

    Posted 08-20-2023 09:05

    Gosh, what a great idea. It's a shame that scripts with seniors and teens is so hard to find. You almost have to create something. What about something that has characters who grow across the years. It's not my favorite play, but Love Letters could be a possibility, with teens reading the younger characters and seniors doing the older characters. 

    Or pair up the teens and seniors and give them a dialogue prompt and a situation and have them create their own short duologue. 



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    Jean Klein
    Playwriting Teacher in MFA program, Wilkes University]
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  • 5.  RE: Intergenerational Show Ideas

    Posted 08-22-2023 12:47

    One play that comes to mind is called "8 Minutes Left" by e.b. lee (Stage Partners) - the characters in it are a range of ages (including seniors and teens) and it may work with what you are looking for.



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    Brendan Conheady
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