THE STEPS:
1. The text2. The distribution of the roles
3. Introducing the play to the students
4. Rehearsals
5. Costumes and decors
6. The night of the event
Step 1- THE TEXT
Choose the plays or the texts to adapt into a play. Here s what I do:
- The play The Smelly Feet (Los pies apestosos), which I found in the book ¡Teatro! Hispanic Plays for Young People (see below), and translated into Spanish. This is a simple and funny animal fable that my students really love and did very well acting it.
- I also used the book Don Quijote in America- Plays in English and Spanish for Grades 1-6 (see below). From that book I have done the play Clothes Do Not Make The Man (El hábito no hace al monje) with my students.
- I made an adaptation of the book Ferdinand (Ferdinando) by Munro Leaf (see below). I wrote the play based on the text from the story.
- I also made an adaptation of Don Quijote, based on the book below:
Finding some compelling, funny, interesting, authentic or of historical value plays and stories
The complexity of the language and the length of the lines of the characters- preferably avoiding long monologues, since my goal is the story to be presented entirely in the target language and my students are Novice learners from 5th and 6th grade.
The number of characters: ideally around 12-14
Plays in English or in the target language (preferably written by native speakers for native speakers). If in English you could translate them and have your translation proofread by a native speaker.
Texts from children’s books
Fairy tales, fables or folk tales
Plays written by your students and performed in groups
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