I’ve had several entreaties, wondering when the next of my quirky Play in a Day children’s theater projects will happen.
They tend to happen during school holidays, and there was no such animal in March, so I’ve decided that in April we’ll have two Plays in a Days.
The first will be this Friday (Good Friday), April 6.
The second will be the Tuesday of Spring vacation, April 17.
Same Play-time, same Play-Place as ever: 2 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. at Neverending Books, 810 State St., New Haven.
The fee per child is $5 for the three-hour session. All kids welcome—we’ve had as young as 3 and as old as 12. Parents are welcome to stay, but most don’t.
The children arrive, I explain the plot of a famous old dramatic work, and in the course of three hours we devise and rehearse the thing. I never decide which play we’re doing until I see who turns up.
When the parents come to pick up their kids, they see the show.
Videos of past productions are on this site’s Play in a Day page, here. Above is a one-minute snippet from the rehearsal period for our most recent production, Karel Capek’s The Insect Play.
Just in case you were wondering how rigid and disciplined these things are.