This original tale uses motifs from traditional Russian stories and songs to explore a young girl's struggle to find her place in the world. Humans, animals, nightmares enrich the telling. A place for puppets, masks, and movement. Flexible staging. CD recording available which includes all the incidental music and song accompaniment. Musical Score (vocal, piano, instruments) also available. Flexible cast of 10 to 20, which may be played as few as 5 - 6 women, 3 - 2 men, and extra puppets. Maryushka spends three days of challenges that carry her from her village to the forest and Baba Yaga, the ancient sorceress and a great test of wits and will. Selected for the Kennedy Center's New Visions/New Voices, and hailed by The Boston Globe as theatre that "has everything a child could want . . . scary (but not too scary), funny (but not too cute). Here are awesome songs and real ideas for kids to wrap their minds around. We hope it will be produced often and everywhere." Approximate run time: 65 min

Baba Yaga and the Black Sunflower

Carol Korty

Anchorage Press

Do you want to put on a play, but have no script or ideas yet? Is there a story you love and want to share with others in play form? Do you have a script that needs some changes to make it fit your group of actors? Do you just enjoy writing and want to try your hand at a play? This practical handbook for the young playwright includes: choosing a story, preparing a first draft, weighing artistic and practical considerations, fine tuning, using rehearsals to refine play making, conventions of writing a play script.

Writing Your Own Plays: Creating, Adapting, Improvising

Literature & Fiction

Players Press

<p>A collection of wonderful, short, zany plays from which children can pick and choose to perform, for their own fun or for a presentation to an audience. Complete with five songs and a wealth of information about theatre terms, creating comic characters, and improvising, as well as production notes on scenery, props and costumes. This book gives children the tools and insight they need to play comic scenes with delightful zest. These plays are based on the 'noodlehead' tales which are embodied in numerous folktales, especially Eastern European Yiddish and medieval English. Carol Korty says: Try seeing the world from one narrow perspective, with one fixed idea. What have you got? Your noodlehead self...silly, wacky and ridiculous. The plays have been performed by adults and children, at numerous theatres, and loved by performers and audience.</p>

Silly Soup: Ten Zany Plays With Songs and Ideas for Making Them Your Own

Dramas & Plays

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Books by Carol Korty

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Baba Yaga and the Black Sunflower

Writing Your Own Plays: Creating, Adapting, Improvising

Silly Soup: Ten Zany Plays With Songs and Ideas for Making Them Your Own