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Scenes That Happen: Snapshot Dramatizations about Life in High School
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Product Description Here is a hit for any classroom! This helpful text contains thirty-four real-life scenes for boys, girls and mixed casts. Each with two to four actors, they are ideal for classroom or stage performances. They are also excellent for use as contest scripts because student actors portray themselves in the bearable and impossible situations of teenage existence. The thoughtful and touching themes include dating, popularity, growing up, graduation, suspension from school and moving-experiences to laugh about and cry about. The scene lengths vary from four to seven minutes each. All scenes are royalty-free with book purchase. Includes 13 scenes for 2 girls; 11 scenes for 2 boys; and 10 scenes for 1 boy and 1 girl. Amazon.com Review Thirty-four real-life scenes for guys and girls and mixed casts of two to four actors. Scene lengths vary from four to seven minutes each. Suitable for classroom or stage performance. Excellent contest scripts because student actors portray themselves in the believably unbelievable situations of teenage life. Themes include dating, popularity, growing up, graduation, suspension from school, and moving - experiences to laugh and cry about. From School Library Journal Grade 7-12-- Krell-Oishi's attempt to capture the voice of adolescence comes close at times, but ultimately misses the mark. Her subjects--dating, teen pregnancy, sibling rivalry, friendship, college plans, grades--are certainly the stuff of daily teen discussions. However, the slice-of-life scenes read more like case studies from a guidance counselor's files. Occasional attempts at slang and street language can't disguise the preachy tone of these homogenious model teens as they unerringly find the right path in a few carefully constructed sentences. If YAs are going to the trouble of memorizing someone else's words, something that stretches their minds and vocabularies is more worth the trouble. Perhaps a drama teacher stuck for ideas might find these scenes useful as a launching point, but the vivid character studies in Mel Glenn's poems in Class Dismissed (Clarion, 1982) are much more evocative. In most schools, Scenes That Happen probably won't. --Sally T. Margolis, Park Ridge Public Library, IL Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review "These scenes provide opportunities for young people to play roles that intersect with their own experience. Across the board, they celebrate the kind of friendship that makes adolescence bearable and memorable." --John Glore, literary manager of Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, CA About the Author Mary Krell-Oishi has been teaching since 1976 and began her theatre teaching career at Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton, California, in 1984. She completed her Masters in Theatre Education at California State University, Fullerton. Her primary career joy has been and remains teaching high school theatre and interacting with young, fresh talent. Mrs. Krell-Oishi takes great pride in the fact she was named as Playwright of the Year by the California State Thespians at their conference in 1995. She plans to continue working with high school drama students and to focus her writing for them. Mary lives with her husband Harris, son Richard, and cat B.C. in Yorba Linda, California.
