Five Plays And Five Pantomimes

Author : Sidney Baldwin
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ISBN 13 : 9781330850251
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Five Plays and Five Pantomimes (Classic Reprint) written by Sidney Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Five Plays and Five Pantomimes The Plays. These little plays are primarily designed to supply the need for children's dramas that may be worked out with out the necessity for long training, elaborate costuming or expensive accessories. The undoubted benefit that a child derives from such plays is too often offset by the nervous wear and tear of long rehearsals and the strain and fret of over much preparation. It is the aim of this book to develop the small actor's ingenuity and imagination rather than to perfect his capacity for memorizing by repetition. The most radical point of difference between this and other books of children's plays is the substitution of dances where songs have ordinarily been used - simple dances for groups, individual pantomime dances for the separate characters. The superiority of the dance over the song is rapidly becoming recognized by modern child-educators everywhere, since the dance provides a proper outlet for a child's natural energy, increases self-confidence, poise and ease of movement, and encourages self-expression, none of which benefits can be claimed for songs. These little plays will appeal to the children because in plot and characters they belong to that border country between fact and fancy in which little folk love to wander. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.