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Send me your best script suggestions that deliver opportunities for creative staging, movement, physicality, storytelling.

I'll put forth Mary Zimmerman's plays, Arabian Nights, and Anon(ymous).

Scripts I've read that seem to have this potential include The Old Man and the Old Moon, Monster (Don Zolidas), Shuddersome (Lindsay Price), Peter and Wendy, Wilde Tales (both by Jeremy Bloom).

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Cassy Maxton-Whitacre
Theatre Department Coordinator
Fishersville VA
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I was involved with a production of Sondheim's ASSASSINS that was staged in an inverted round - the audience sat in the middle of the black box on swivel stools and the cast played all around them in a "circle of violence" themed production.

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Josh Kauffman
Teacher
Winfield AL
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-30-2018 12:50
From: Cassy Maxton-Whitacre
Subject: Creative Staging

Send me your best script suggestions that deliver opportunities for creative staging, movement, physicality, storytelling.

I'll put forth Mary Zimmerman's plays, Arabian Nights, and Anon(ymous).

Scripts I've read that seem to have this potential include The Old Man and the Old Moon, Monster (Don Zolidas), Shuddersome (Lindsay Price), Peter and Wendy, Wilde Tales (both by Jeremy Bloom).

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Cassy Maxton-Whitacre
Theatre Department Coordinator
Fishersville VA
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How about Wiley and the Hairy Man?  Also, as I'm currently doing prep work for a production of Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame, I will offer that there's a lot of presentational (almost forensics-y) moments--group narration, self-narration, people as objects and the like.



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Ryan Moore
Theatre Teacher and Forensics Coach
Royal Oak MI
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-30-2018 12:50
From: Cassy Maxton-Whitacre
Subject: Creative Staging

Send me your best script suggestions that deliver opportunities for creative staging, movement, physicality, storytelling.

I'll put forth Mary Zimmerman's plays, Arabian Nights, and Anon(ymous).

Scripts I've read that seem to have this potential include The Old Man and the Old Moon, Monster (Don Zolidas), Shuddersome (Lindsay Price), Peter and Wendy, Wilde Tales (both by Jeremy Bloom).

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Cassy Maxton-Whitacre
Theatre Department Coordinator
Fishersville VA
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I was able to do some really interesting things with "And" by Alan Haenel. You might also look at "Too Much Light Makes The Baby Do Blind". That's such an interesting piece on its own that it begs for something like this.

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Shira Schwartz
Chandler Unified School District
Chandler AZ
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-30-2018 12:50
From: Cassy Maxton-Whitacre
Subject: Creative Staging

Send me your best script suggestions that deliver opportunities for creative staging, movement, physicality, storytelling.

I'll put forth Mary Zimmerman's plays, Arabian Nights, and Anon(ymous).

Scripts I've read that seem to have this potential include The Old Man and the Old Moon, Monster (Don Zolidas), Shuddersome (Lindsay Price), Peter and Wendy, Wilde Tales (both by Jeremy Bloom).

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Cassy Maxton-Whitacre
Theatre Department Coordinator
Fishersville VA
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Kate Hamill's "Sense and Sensibility" -- really great use of movement/creative staging in the Bedlam production. Also Austen: Matthew Francis's "Northanger Abbey" adaptation has lots of dancing as well as travelling on carriages, and the potential for gothic creepy shadow movement.

In a totally different style, and a totally different kind of movement, "The Wolves" by Sarah DeLappe.

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Cora Turlish
Metuchen NJ
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-30-2018 12:50
From: Cassy Maxton-Whitacre
Subject: Creative Staging

Send me your best script suggestions that deliver opportunities for creative staging, movement, physicality, storytelling.

I'll put forth Mary Zimmerman's plays, Arabian Nights, and Anon(ymous).

Scripts I've read that seem to have this potential include The Old Man and the Old Moon, Monster (Don Zolidas), Shuddersome (Lindsay Price), Peter and Wendy, Wilde Tales (both by Jeremy Bloom).

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Cassy Maxton-Whitacre
Theatre Department Coordinator
Fishersville VA
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Thought of a couple more:
Joan Aiken's "The Wolves of Willoughby Chase" adapted by Russ Tunney
"Monkey! (A Tale from China)" by Colin Teevan

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Cora Turlish
Metuchen NJ
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-03-2018 14:54
From: Cora Turlish
Subject: Creative Staging

Kate Hamill's "Sense and Sensibility" -- really great use of movement/creative staging in the Bedlam production. Also Austen: Matthew Francis's "Northanger Abbey" adaptation has lots of dancing as well as travelling on carriages, and the potential for gothic creepy shadow movement.

In a totally different style, and a totally different kind of movement, "The Wolves" by Sarah DeLappe.

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Cora Turlish
Metuchen NJ

Original Message:
Sent: 08-30-2018 12:50
From: Cassy Maxton-Whitacre
Subject: Creative Staging

Send me your best script suggestions that deliver opportunities for creative staging, movement, physicality, storytelling.

I'll put forth Mary Zimmerman's plays, Arabian Nights, and Anon(ymous).

Scripts I've read that seem to have this potential include The Old Man and the Old Moon, Monster (Don Zolidas), Shuddersome (Lindsay Price), Peter and Wendy, Wilde Tales (both by Jeremy Bloom).

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Cassy Maxton-Whitacre
Theatre Department Coordinator
Fishersville VA
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