One-Person Puppetry - Streamlined and Simplified

By Yvonne Amar Frey

Most guides to puppetry assume multiple puppeteers, a large stage, elaborate props, custom-designed puppets, and more. With library staffing and budgets stretched thin, and other curricular commitments for teachers, few have the time or resources to develop full-blown puppet performances. Expert puppeteer Yvonne Amar Frey provides a much needed puppet alternative to enrich story times, booktalks, and other library events for children of all ages. Over the course of nearly twenty years, she has perfected nontraditional shortcuts that make solo amateur puppetry painless, cost-effective and fun! Frey also plans for entertaining patter between these short plays-songs, parodies, jokes, riddles, and ideas for puppets that can serve as the emcee. In addition to savvy shortcuts and techniques for the one puppeteer performance, the author provides original scripts for thirty-eight simplified tales, including humorous "fractured" fairy tales, folktales from around the globe, and adaptations of Aesop's Fables. Children's librarians, teachers, preschool directors, and even parents and homeschoolers can entertain their audiences using this simple, proven system.

Paperback: 151 pages
Publisher: American Library Association (November 30, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0838908896
ISBN-13: 978-0838908891
Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.6 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces