Childsplay: A Collection of Scenes and Monologues for Children (Limelight) Review

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(More customer reviews)I was hoping for a collection of fun, intelligent, and imaginative scenes and monologues for my kids to perform.Instead, I find a bunch of hackneyed dross about children as victims--victims of bullying, victims of bad parents, victims of society,etc.Scene after scene is about children who've lost parents, or children in poverty, or children abused.And the scenes are so over the top as to make the characters almost comical.The only thing designed to challenge children are the contrived plot lines through which the character reveals how she/he has lost her/his parents/grandparent/sibling and is now living on the streets/running away/one meal away from starvation.What child wouldn't like to tackle the monologue entitled "The Day My Father Died."Most of the scenes and monologues are also written at a low reading level.Yuck. The only reason I didn't give this pitiable book one fewer star is because there are two or three adequate scenes and monologues. I found a much better book of plays--Plays Children Love, Volume II.Edited by Coleman Jennings.

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A selection from over fifty sources including published and unpublished plays, blockbuster movie hits, independent films, foreign films, teleplays, poetry, and diaries.

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