Red Letter Day Plays
Book Description
The plays the thing, said Hamlet, way back in the days when the elaborate scenery, lighting effects and costuming of to-day were unknown. At the time those words were written the greatest of Shakespeare sdramas were given their first performance on a bare stage. To-day we have gone to the opposite extreme, and even the simplest childs play often has costumes and scenery which represent many hours ...
MoreThe plays the thing, said Hamlet, way back in the days when the elaborate scenery, lighting effects and costuming of to-day were unknown. At the time those words were written the greatest of Shakespeare sdramas were given their first performance on a bare stage. To-day we have gone to the opposite extreme, and even the simplest childs play often has costumes and scenery which represent many hours of work. In fact, too many plays for boys and girls are like the famous charades of the Peterkin family, when the actors spent so much time in selling tickets, collecting the costumes and the bandboxes which knight be needed, buflding a stage, hanging a curtain, erecting scenery and borrowing chairs, that not until the audience was seated did they find time to decide upon the words they were to act. In some communities mothers have come to dread the closing of school, or the Christmas and May festivals, because each one means preparing elaborate costumes and helping to make complicated stage sets.
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