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CHARMAINE SPENCER (1946 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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A professional puppeteer, Charmaine Spencer has been teaching, peforming and writing for young audiences for thirty years. She lives in a suburb of Chicago and serves as Playwright in Residence for The Children's Theatre Institute of Indianapolis and Script Consultant for the Puppeteers of America. She is author of The Story to Stage Workbook for beginning playwrights.
Plays by Charmaine Spencer
Christmas Carol, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Children's Theatre Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA | 1996 | ||||
Company: | Children's Theatre Institute | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61954 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | multiple doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The Dicken's story. One hour adaptation. Two actors, some audience participation. Designed to travel | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fireflies | ||
| 1st Produced: | 6th & Penn Theatre, San Diego, California, USA | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61950 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This seventy minute play is recommended for ages nine and up. It requires simple props and costuming, performed on a unit set and may be designed to travel. | |||||
Synopsis: | Artist Friedl Dicker Brandies uses her art lessons to help the children imprisoned at Terezin Camp in Czechoslovakia. At the same time, she struggles to protect them from the ultimate horror, transport to the death camps. When the International Red Cross presses for an inspection of the camp, the community is forced to contribute to the Nazi propaganda machine. In defiance Leo, 16 devises a plan to communicate the truth to the inspectors during the performance but his plot fails and he receives transport orders along with the others. After the war, Leo and Friedl's husband Pavel uncover the children's art work and Leo realizes that, no matter how huge the lie, truth can still triumph through the enduring strength of human love and creativity. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Higgledy Piggledy Mother Goose | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre of Western Springs, Western Springs, Illinois, USA | 1991 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61951 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Children's comedy Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Employs well integrated audience participation. Peformed on a unit set, designed to travel. | |||||
Synopsis: | The Crooked Old Man has hijacked the Mother Goose book. Georgie Porgie, Mary Contrary and the other characters have to get back in before they turn into (gasp!) real people. The audience helps the characters remember their rhymes and a lively game of Simon Says, led by Simple Simon himself, teaches the Crooked Old Man a lesson about sharing and getting along with others | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Pea and the Princess, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Children's Theatre of Western Springs, Western Springs, Illinois, USA | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Children's Theatre Institute | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61952 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Children's comedy Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Involves well integrated audience participation. Highly suggested that the Pea be peformed by a puppet. Two level unit set. Also available in Traveling version and as a puppet production employing two puppeteers. | |||||
Synopsis: | Pedegar Pea of Pod Three takes over from Hans Christian Andersen. In his telling of the story, the strange princess climbs in through a tower window, a pet dog is turns into a pretty girl and Pedegar and a bowl full of little green friends make sure that the Queen is confounded and Prince Hector get's the sleepy girl of his dreams. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Time Machine | ||
| 1st Produced: | Children's Theatre Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Children's Theatre Institute | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55677 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Adaptation Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | 45 minutes long, designed to travel. Male actor portrays Time Traveler. Female actor portrays his housemaid, operates bunraku style puppets of Eloi and transforms by costume into the Morlock. | |||||
Synopsis: | The far future and the world is divided into the gentle Eloi and the hulking and brutal Morlocks. The time-traveller from 1895 arrives and feels it is his duty to help the Eloi | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tom Sawyer | ||
| 1st Produced: | Children's Theatre Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA | 1997 | ||||
Company: | Children's Theatre Institute | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61955 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Adaptation Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The Mark Twain Novel. One hour adaptation. Two actors, some audience participation. Designed to travel | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Treasure Island | ||
| 1st Produced: | Children's Theatre Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA | 1993 | ||||
Company: | Children's Theatre Institute | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61953 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Adaptation Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | multiple doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Long John Silver, Jim Hawkins, buried treasure. One hour adaptation. Two actors, (honestly) some audience participation. Designed to travel | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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