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Children don't like lovey-dovey stuff. Beware of princes and princesses gazing doe-eyed at each other singing and gooey love songs. On the whole, children can't stand love scenes, especially sung ones. In a pantomime, there is nothing better guaranteed to start the chat and the queue for the loo than the onset of such romance. Or worse. Once, as prince charming and Cinderella kissed, I heard a precocious nine year old shout,' go on, give her one!' Children are not interested in the process of falling in love. They are quite happy for two people to love each other, but they are more interested in the problems that beset them. Love thwarted gives the audience and opportunity to root for the lovers and foil the killjoys. In other words, we return to the theme of justice.

Children love animals and toys. Aesop knew what he was doing when he chose animals to be the characters in his moral fables. Just look at how many of the favourite characters in children's literature are animals. Most of them are anthropomorphic in that they appear to have human emotions and often live in communities reminiscent of our own. But children's writers know that their audiences will respond to animals more positively than to their own kind. Why is this? Is it because children feel they have a certain power over them? Is it because they have a vulnerability that children sense and which encourages them to feel protective? Is it simply that animals are attractive? It is certainly true that if I am looking for a character to immediately and emotionally involve the children in the audience, I will probably choose a mute animal to whom life is giving a raw deal. In the same way, children enjoy toy characters. Toys are familiar to them, friends with whom they share their own games and make-believe stories.

Toys and inanimate objects. Toys and inanimate objects coming to life has always been a favourite device of children's playwrights. When children play with their toys they often breathe imaginative life into them, sharing Games & adventures with them. Their toys become their friends. Maybe this explains the success of characters like Enid Blyton's Noddy, a wooden doll living in a world of toys who are all 'alive'.

A story about toys is therefore good subject matter for a children's play. Just like anthropomorphic animals, inanimate objects & toys can think, talk and behave like human beings. The Disney cartoon, beauty and the beast features an animated teapot & candelabra, plus a dancing dinner service. There have been books written & illustrated about live vegetables & fruit. In my adaption of HRH the prince of Wales' The old man of lochnagar, I used three crazy haggis. Such characters are fun and can throw up all sorts of interesting ideas for plays.

It's maybe unscientific to suppose that animals can think, act and speak like human beings, but children's writers know that their audience loves animals and loves reading stories about them. Beatrix potter's Peter Rabbit, Kenneth Grahame's the wind in the willows, A.A milne's Winnie the Pooh, Dodie Smith's 101 Dalmatians, and Richard Adams' Watership Down are all classics involving a community of animals. They may behave as animals to a large extent but their great appeal to the reader is that they feel and speak like human beings. The appeal of animals for younger children is overwhelming. Rupert bear, Paddington Bear, spot, pingu, Orlando and Disney characters like Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, dumbo and the lion king all exploit the lovability of animals - but the characters are really human adults and children given animal form. Amongst the earliest examples of this device must be the fables of Aesop. These tales, like the tortoise and the hare, offer moral advice and common sense, made more palatable by the fact that animals rather than human beings are the protagonists. Plays about animals can work very well for children. Fables tend to be rather short & to the point and may need considerable developing, but it is well worth considering them when creating a new play, as I did with save the human.

Children love stories. A good storyline is essential for any children's play. I Ideally , avoid the use of too many subplots. Even a play with in an overtly educational aim, such as a play about the conservation of the environment, must have a strong, coherent, logical, interesting basic plot. The focus must be well defined. There is no time for superfluous detail. The script needs to be so tight it is virtually impossible to cut anything without losing the meaning. ((((Link to educate purpose section of children's theatre)))

a useful exercise is to compare an adult novel with a successful children's novel. The children's novelist will waste little time. He or she will won't spend the opening pages describing the scenery and telling you the sun has come out. Unlike the adults novelist, the children's novelist will not feel the need to embark upon long detailed psychological profiles of the characters. There is clear punchy dialogue and narrative, and the concentration will be on action rather than reflection.

In Peter pan, the first children's theatre classic, the story starts with the children of a typical middle-class Edwardian family going to bed. Admittedly fantasy creeps in early on when we discover that the children's nanny is an Northumberland dog. This apparently mundane, familiar routine is interrupted by the arrival of Peter, who flies in through the window. We have all thought how exciting it would be to fly. Here is someone who can actually do it - and, of course, Peter subsequently teaches the children to fly and carries them off to an exciting sequence of adventures in the Neverland.

Fantasy does not mean airy-fairy. The reality in a fantasy story can be as gritty as the reality in a biographical study or the story of a child living on the streets in Victorian London. The story can be rooted in reality or fantasy or a combination of both.

Most recently Alan ahlberg's stories have worked well on stage. He often starts with a normal situation and then changes the rules. In ten in a bed, a girl complains to her non-believing parents that her bed is regularly invaded by fairy-tale characters. we witness the events and therefore have to believe them, even though we know they couldn't really happen. In the giant baby, a fairly normal family is suddenly lumbered by the arrival on their doorstep of a huge baby, temporarily abandoned by a giant. The idea is immediately appealing, but great skill is applied in continuing on developing the idea.

Although I have seen a number of excellent plays for children firmly rooted in reality, I cannot resist for long the use of fantasy, particularly for younger children. Occasionally, the whole play can be a fantasy, yet still rooted in a real world. My play the ideal gnome expedition, starts off with two rather bored garden gnomes, Mr Wheeler (who pushes a wheelbarrow) and Mr Fisher (who wields a fishing rod), who are forced to spend their days in the big ones' (human beings) backyard. Answering a cry for help from the dustbin, they rescue an abandoned clockwork toy duck. They mend him and, longing for adventure, take him on an expedition over the wall into the concrete jungle of the city beyond. The problems they encounter feature situations and places familiar to children of today, yet the story is basically fantasy derived.

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