Flory Patterson is almost sixteen and never been kissed. Not for lack of trying, as Flory devotes every moment to attracting the opposite sex in this teenage comedy set in 1928. Involved in the proceedings are Flory's best friend, her understanding mother, her matter-of-fact little sister and the sister's equally matter-of-fact friend, and, of course, the boys: disdainful Charlie, unattainable Douglas, eager Gilmprel, and finally the divine Philip. Its fast pace, clever dialogue, and unusual situations are hilarious and students will love acting in this true-to-life flapper comedy.

And Never Been Kissed

Aurand Harris

Samuel French, Inc.

Drama for Reading and Performance: Collection 1

Drama for Reading and Performance: Collection 1

Horton Foote

WENDY WASSERSTEIN

Celeste Raspanti

David Ives

Merrill Markoe

bertolt-brecht

Gary, Soto

Teen & Young Adult

Perfection Learning

Our hardcover and paperback digest editions of THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA are now graced with new jacket and cover art by 2-time Caldecott medalist David Wiesner.

The Magician's Nephew (One-Act)

Dramatic Pub.

The Magician's Nephew: A Dramatization

Lewis. C.S.

Dramatic Pub. Co.

Fashion (A Play in One-Act)

Baker's Plays

The plays of Aurand Harris have been produced and applauded in thousands of productions around the world for nearly a half century. Harris was a prodigious dramatist, writing a new published play each season. He was a tireless experimenter of forms, themes, subjects. This modest man of irrepressible imagination and energy carried a vast array of honors and accolades. He was the first recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Children's Theatre. He received an honorary doctorate from a mid-western university, and was introduced into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre. He was the first playwright to receive the Medallion of the Children's Theatre Foundation of America. THE THEATRE OF AURAND HARRIS tells of his triple career as playwright, a classroom teacher, as a member of the Hollywood artistic community during its golden age (Mae West was once an honored guest at his birthday party!) For the first time his major thoughts about writing and directing plays for young audiences have been collected for study. The fifteen plays range from 1945 to 1994, including both classics by Harris, and many never before anthologized, including THE PINBALLS, MONKEY MAGIC, and PETER RABBIT AND ME. Illustrations of Harris and notable productions are included.

The Theatre of Aurand Harris

Children's Books

Arts, Music & Photography

Anchorage Pr

Play script. Written under a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Cast of 4 women, 3 men, vaudeville entr'acts. One interior set. Costumes, 1915. (A shortened version of this play is also available from the publisher.)A TOBY SHOW brings back to the stage an American folk character -- Toby, the country bumpkin who through naivete, honesty, and homespun humor outwits the city slickers. This farce-melodrama recreates with traditional situations and stock characters -- as well as jokes and stage business -- a colorful segment of American drama: the traveling tent repertoire shows. Starring in the Cinderella story, Toby enacts a comic variation of the fairy godmother. With music and specialty numbers, the production excitingly evokes a Toby Show for children of all ages, allowing them the joy of experiencing an authentic example of American folk theatre. As the early posters advertised: A laugh a minute! A cyclone of fun! Toby, a stick of dyna-mirth!

A Toby Show

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

"A marvelous, daring play, full of charm and vitality, that makes a reassuring statement about death." (Critic's comment) One set. Modern and animal costumes. 6 actors: Little Girl, Dancing Bear, Mime, Star Bright, Ringmaster, Little Bear (Flexible men or women. Approximate running time: 50 minutes. Saddened and bewildered at her grandfather's approaching death, Tish runs to her "special tree." There, in a world of fantasy, provided by her wishing on a Star, she meets the World's Greatest Dancing Bear. He is old, like her grandfather, and is running away -- from death. In trying to help him, she begins to understand the meaning of both life and death, which helps her to cope with her own sadness. The play blends realism and fantasy, pathos and humor. Delightfully theatrical, with music, magic and dance, enthusiastically applauded by children's audiences -- and family audiences. The Arkansaw Bear is an important work by America's foremost playwright for young audiences, sparkling with entertainment and, at the same time, dramatizing, with poignancy, a universal truth.

The Arkansaw Bear

Play script by Aurand Harris. A wonderfully theatrical play about a boy who is different instead of marbles, he has poems in his pockets. Through him one glimpses every gifted child, and the special needs of every one in his special world. A cultural view of American traditions 1849-1916. Period Costumes. CAST: 17 roles plus extras (5F, 8M, 4+ either) which can be played by as few as 3F, 6M.A comedy, exciting, appealing, touching, and also biographically true of the Indiana boy, James Whitcomb Riley, the famous early American poet. Beginning on his 75th birthday, proclaimed a national day of celebration buy President Woodrow Wilson, the poet recalls his youth--the merry-go-roung at the country fair; the old swimming hole; the painful dunce cap at the cruel village school; the bonfires of Halloween; and unforgettable little Orphan Annie; the Underground Railroad and tehe horror of the Civil War and the medicine show where his poems first won public applause. Brimful of music (background) and spectacle, Ride a Blue Horse shows a gifted child coping with a universal problem that of being different.

Ride a Blue Horse

Play script. Dramatization of selected scenes from Mark Twain's classic, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. No set, few props. Ideal for touring. Period, simple costumes. Flexible cast. 1 woman, 4 men may perform all roles, by doubling.Huck Finn's story -- the escape from his drunken father, his befriending a runaway slave -- is an adventure tale of excitement and suspense, delightfully sprinkled with homespun humor. In six action-filled scenes, alive with colorful characters and sparkling dialogue in rural dialect, the play reveals Huck, a clever, lovable boy, who is baffled by the greed, hypocrisy, and absurdity of society. His conscience troubles him about what is wrong, what is right, during his long journey down the Mississippi, a journey in which he "grows up." Keeping faithfully to the book, Harris, with his celebrated mastery of playwriting, has written for young audiences a great American play about the great American novel.

Huck Finn's Story

Mark, Twain

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