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The Cat Who Couldn't Take A Nap, Rebecca Saunders Apr 2011

The Cat Who Couldn't Take A Nap, Rebecca Saunders

Rebecca Saunders

If a child you know likes to dance, this is the play for her or him.


6 Playwrights In Search Of A Stage, Rebecca Saunders Apr 2011

6 Playwrights In Search Of A Stage, Rebecca Saunders

Rebecca Saunders

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Swan Day, Rebecca Saunders Mar 2011

Swan Day, Rebecca Saunders

Rebecca Saunders

March 5, 2011 -- SWAN Day Celebration featuring Rebecca Saunders. A Boston SWAN Day Celebration with Staged Readings of the Work of Twenty Boston Area Women Featuring the work of Rosanna Alfaro, Shelby Allen, Ludmilla Anselm, Lynne S. Brandon, Jyl Lynn Felman, Kate Carney, Patty Catalano, Hortense Gerardo, Cassie Seinuk, Deidre Girard, Catherine O'Neill, Regina Eliot Ramsey, Martha Patterson, Michele Markarian, Diane Ripstein, Marlena Merrin, Rebecca Saunders, Lee Roscoe, Robbie D'Allesandro, Debra Wiess. With appearances by some of Boston’s finest actors.


The Cat Who Couldn't Take A Nap, Rebecca Saunders Dec 2010

The Cat Who Couldn't Take A Nap, Rebecca Saunders

Rebecca Saunders

One day, Cleo Belber finds that she has turned into a cat. But she isn't afraid . . . in fact, it's fun!


The Daffodil, Rebecca Saunders Dec 2010

The Daffodil, Rebecca Saunders

Rebecca Saunders

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Newspaper Theater: Storytelling With Puppets And Music, Rebecca Saunders Dec 2010

Newspaper Theater: Storytelling With Puppets And Music, Rebecca Saunders

Rebecca Saunders

Inspired by Japanese Bunraku puppetry, this project demonstrates how the arts can help teachers and puppeteers reach the different intelligences of students (based on Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences theory). In groups of 4-5, participants will tell a story from a culture unfamiliar to them, manipulate a puppet, and play music that they have specifically orchestrated for the story.


Donation, Rebecca Saunders Dec 2010

Donation, Rebecca Saunders

Rebecca Saunders

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Sock It To Me! Creating Drama With Puppets, Rebecca Saunders Dec 2010

Sock It To Me! Creating Drama With Puppets, Rebecca Saunders

Rebecca Saunders

This workshop combines techniques from puppet making and from playwriting to create a character for you to use in the classroom. One of the standard techniques for stimulating creativity that I’ve come across in writers’ workshops is when the facilitator presents some evocative image. The image could be a realistic photograph of elderly women chatting at a reunion or a surrealist painting of a girl leading her pet bear on a leash. Then quickly we begin to write, almost before we have time to think, repress, filter out. We are caught by surprise, and the unexpected within us has a …


6 Playwrights In Search Of A Stage, Rebecca Saunders Dec 2010

6 Playwrights In Search Of A Stage, Rebecca Saunders

Rebecca Saunders

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The Daffodil: A Spring Play, Rebecca Saunders Dec 2010

The Daffodil: A Spring Play, Rebecca Saunders

Rebecca Saunders

No abstract provided.


The Rabbit Who Loved Peas, Rebecca Saunders Dec 2010

The Rabbit Who Loved Peas, Rebecca Saunders

Rebecca Saunders

No abstract provided.