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    The Tailor's Gift & 4 other plays
    The Tailor's Gift & 4 other plays
    The Tailor's Gift & 4 other plays
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    The Tailor's Gift & 4 other plays

    By KT Gatti

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    This book contains the following plays for children - The Tailor's Gift, The man who sold the shade of a tree, Soldier King, Fish Laughed, Nothing Sweeter than lies.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPustaka Digital Media
    Release dateMar 16, 2016
    ISBN6580200201098
    The Tailor's Gift & 4 other plays

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      The Tailor's Gift & 4 other plays - KT Gatti

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      The Tailor’s Gift And 4 Other Plays

      Author :

      K.T. Gatti

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      Digital/Electronic Copyright © by Pustaka Digital Media Pvt. Ltd.

      All other copyright © by Author.

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Table of Contents

      Play - 1. The Tailor’s Gift

      Scene One: Tailor’s Home

      Scene Two: Tailor’s Home

      Scene Three: The Tailor’s Home

      Scene Four: The Tailor’s Home

      Scene Five: The Tailor’s Home

      Glossary

      Play - 2. The Man Who Sold The Shade Of A Tree

      Scene: One: A House, A Tree In Front Of The House

      Scene: Two: The House, The Tree

      Scene: Three: The House, The Tree

      Glossary

      Play - 3.  Soldier King

      Scene One: Palace, Bedroom

      Scene Two: Palace, Queen’s Parlour

      Scene Three: Palace, Bedroom

      Scene Four: Forest

      Scene Five: Palace, Queen’s Parlour

      Scene Six:  Palace, Bedroom

      Scene Seven: A Large Room

      Scene: Eight: Palace

      Play - 4. Fish Laughed!

      Scene One: Window Of The Palace And The Street

      Scene Two: Palace

      Scene Three: Minster’s House

      Scene Four: Road

      Scene Five: A Huge Tree

      Scene Six: Farmer’s House

      Scene Seven: Palace

      Scene Eight: Palace Grounds

      Play - 5. Nothing Sweeter Than Lies

      Scene One: Street, House

      Scene Two: Palace

      Scene Three: Palace

      Scene Four:  Palace

      Scene Five: House Built By The Girl

      Scene Six: Palace

      ABOUT THESE PLAYS

      These plays are based on folk-tales and fairy-tales from different parts of the world.  Written especially for schoolchildren, these plays can be performed by children in their classrooms. They can read out the dialogues by taking up the roles in the play. Children can distribute and redistribute roles among them. Such performances will be complementary to learning the language from textbooks.  Similarly, a performance can be staged for the benefit of the whole school.  This exercise is of great benefit where English is taught as a second language. 

      By watching and reading plays in English one can familiarize oneself with spoken English. The best method of learning spoken English is by listening to conversation and making use of the opportunity to speak.  Sentences are spoken in a play in lifelike situations and in logical sequence.  By repetitive hearing, they become a part of the listener’s language.

      A language teacher must bear in mind the fact that forcing the learner to speak always grammatically correct and complete sentences is what makes him tongue-tied.  Nobody learnt to speak his mother tongue this way. Every child starts speaking the mother tongue with meaningless words, and fragments. In the beginning, his speech is replete with of mistakes of all kind. The child learns the language the way he learns walking.

      A play can also be read like a story. The reader naturally internalizes a lot of expressions from the dialogues in a play.  Reading a play can be a group activity providing social interaction.  Staging a play is a lesson in language as well as a piece of entertainment at the same time. Correct pronunciation, accent and intonation can be taught through plays.

      After a few ‘play-lessons’ children can be encouraged to construct dialogues or short plays of five or ten minutes. This activity trains them to ‘think and speak’ which is the most important aspect of learning a language.

      Children may be encouraged to write dialogues or short plays of a length of five to ten minutes. Through this activity, they learn to think and speak in the natural way.  Children may also be encouraged to write short plays and dialogues individually.  Children, who try to do this, will learn the pleasure of finding expressions for their thoughts. Their power of imagination flares up. Through this linguistic exercise, they will be able to speak well and write well in school or out of school.

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      1. THE TAILOR’S GIFT

      Character:

      The tailor,

      The tailor’s wife,

      Two boys aged about 10

      SCENE ONE: TAILOR’S HOME

      The stage is divided into two parts. The larger one is the tailor’s workroom with a sewing machine, scissors, cloth pieces, clothes, half-stitched dresses etc. There is a window in the wall between the two rooms. Signs of impoverishment.

      Tailor’s wife: I don’t think these shirts and trousers will be ready for tomorrow’s market.

      Tailor: If not ready by tomorrow, we can take them to Mr. Bingo’s shop the day after tomorrow.

      Wife: But Mr. Bingo pays less.

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