Playguide james and the giant peach
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Publicado: 30 de julio de 2010
Playguide
This Playguide is prepared for teachers, students, parents and subscribers attending San Diego Junior Theatre productions. It is our desire to make the artistic experience of attending live theatre as enriching as possible for all of San Diego’s families. For further information on our productions, please visit our website at www.juniortheatre.com/shows.
Plot Synopsis
For JamesHenry Trotter, life with the exceedingly nasty Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker is pure misery. James dreams of a better life, but he’s totally unprepared for the wild adventures ahead of him when he drops the magic crystals he receives from a strange old man. Before long, James is off on a weird, wonderful journey inside a giant peach with an odd assortment of traveling companions!
About the AuthorRoald Dahl was born in South Wales in 1916. His parents were Norwegian, but they lived in the United Kingdom so that the Dahl children could attend English schools, which they considered to be the best in the world. Roald, one of five children, hungered for adventure. As a young man he took a job with Shell Oil in Africa. When World War II broke out he joined the Royal Air Force as a fighterpilot. He sustained terrible injuries as a result, and even almost died in a plane crash in 1942. It was after this near tragedy that his writing career began. He wrote articles for prominent magazines, including The New Yorker. He didn’t begin writing stories for children until he had children of his own. He said that he couldn’t find any children’s stories that were appealing enough to hischildren. James and the Giant Peach was written in 1961. He wrote his many best-selling books for children from a small hut at the base of his garden in Buckinghamshire, England, where he lived with his wife Felicity and their children. Roald Dahl died in 1990, but his memory is alive and well at the Roald Dahl Children’s Gallery in Buckinghamshire and through the stories, movies and plays of his work.About the Playwright
David Wood lives in Wimbledon, England and has been named the “national children’s playwright” of England. He has written many plays for children, and has adapted four Roald Dahl books into plays that have been performed by professional theatre companies all over the world. Junior Theatre produced his adaptation of The Witches, and The BFG has been performed at the SeattleChildren’s Theatre and Dallas Children’s Theatre. Other adaptations of Dahl’s work include The Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Twits. Mr. Wood has written a book on playwriting called Theatre for Children, Also an actor and director, Mr. Wood has appeared on television programs in England, and had his own theatre company, called Whirligig Theatre. He was in San Diego in August of 2001 for a nationaltheatre education conference, hosted by Junior Theatre. Mr. Wood presented several workshops sessions for theatre teachers, and attended our production of Guys and Dolls (which he loved!). In the fall of 2002, Junior Theatre’s executive director, and the director of this production, Will Neblett and education director Torrie Dunlap visited David Wood in Wimbledon, England. Below is a photo taken ofWill and David Wood in front of the historic Wimbledon Theatre, where a production of James and the Giant Peach was about to appear.
About the Production
If you have read the book James and the Giant Peach, you can imagine what a challenge it would be to present a stage version. How does one depict a peach the size of a house hurling through the air being carried by 500 seagulls? How can astage version show the same giant peach bobbing along in the shark infested Atlantic Ocean, it’s main characters perched precariously on top? While we don’t want to give away our secrets, and thus decrease your enjoyment of theatre magic, we will tell you about a couple of artistic collaborators who are working to make it happen. A slew of puppets are being created especially for this production by...
This Playguide is prepared for teachers, students, parents and subscribers attending San Diego Junior Theatre productions. It is our desire to make the artistic experience of attending live theatre as enriching as possible for all of San Diego’s families. For further information on our productions, please visit our website at www.juniortheatre.com/shows.
Plot Synopsis
For JamesHenry Trotter, life with the exceedingly nasty Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker is pure misery. James dreams of a better life, but he’s totally unprepared for the wild adventures ahead of him when he drops the magic crystals he receives from a strange old man. Before long, James is off on a weird, wonderful journey inside a giant peach with an odd assortment of traveling companions!
About the AuthorRoald Dahl was born in South Wales in 1916. His parents were Norwegian, but they lived in the United Kingdom so that the Dahl children could attend English schools, which they considered to be the best in the world. Roald, one of five children, hungered for adventure. As a young man he took a job with Shell Oil in Africa. When World War II broke out he joined the Royal Air Force as a fighterpilot. He sustained terrible injuries as a result, and even almost died in a plane crash in 1942. It was after this near tragedy that his writing career began. He wrote articles for prominent magazines, including The New Yorker. He didn’t begin writing stories for children until he had children of his own. He said that he couldn’t find any children’s stories that were appealing enough to hischildren. James and the Giant Peach was written in 1961. He wrote his many best-selling books for children from a small hut at the base of his garden in Buckinghamshire, England, where he lived with his wife Felicity and their children. Roald Dahl died in 1990, but his memory is alive and well at the Roald Dahl Children’s Gallery in Buckinghamshire and through the stories, movies and plays of his work.About the Playwright
David Wood lives in Wimbledon, England and has been named the “national children’s playwright” of England. He has written many plays for children, and has adapted four Roald Dahl books into plays that have been performed by professional theatre companies all over the world. Junior Theatre produced his adaptation of The Witches, and The BFG has been performed at the SeattleChildren’s Theatre and Dallas Children’s Theatre. Other adaptations of Dahl’s work include The Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Twits. Mr. Wood has written a book on playwriting called Theatre for Children, Also an actor and director, Mr. Wood has appeared on television programs in England, and had his own theatre company, called Whirligig Theatre. He was in San Diego in August of 2001 for a nationaltheatre education conference, hosted by Junior Theatre. Mr. Wood presented several workshops sessions for theatre teachers, and attended our production of Guys and Dolls (which he loved!). In the fall of 2002, Junior Theatre’s executive director, and the director of this production, Will Neblett and education director Torrie Dunlap visited David Wood in Wimbledon, England. Below is a photo taken ofWill and David Wood in front of the historic Wimbledon Theatre, where a production of James and the Giant Peach was about to appear.
About the Production
If you have read the book James and the Giant Peach, you can imagine what a challenge it would be to present a stage version. How does one depict a peach the size of a house hurling through the air being carried by 500 seagulls? How can astage version show the same giant peach bobbing along in the shark infested Atlantic Ocean, it’s main characters perched precariously on top? While we don’t want to give away our secrets, and thus decrease your enjoyment of theatre magic, we will tell you about a couple of artistic collaborators who are working to make it happen. A slew of puppets are being created especially for this production by...
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