Plays with classroom-tested activity guides
Introduce young people to a rich heritage of classic literature
Stagestruck Plays are child-friendly adaptions of the classics that provide a fun and different approach to learning! Kids dive into acting with relish as the plays retell beloved stories like Beowulf, The Odyssey and Don Quixote — that also happen to be linchpins of world literature.
Easy-to-remember rhyme and rhythm provide access to both meaning and memorization. And as their bodies become involved, stories go deep and stay strong. From an academic perspective, what better way is there to gain exposure to books on the must-read canon for high school and college students?
Classrooms, camps, after-school programs — any place young people gather can become a performance space. Easy to memorize, great fun to act, the Stagestruck experience stays with kids forever.
A child’s fascination with new and delicious language, her craving for out-of-the-box creativity, his instinct to live comfortably in a land somewhere between myth and reality … kids are born to wander, explore and taste any parts of life that remain a mystery. Capable of deep thinking and complex questions, they are bored with curricula that hold them down when they want to fly.