Plays

A few weeks ago, we were lucky enough to have a group of students from Geneva International School in Switzerland come and visit us. They helped us make up our own plays. We learnt some new games for performing arts and then we broke up into three groups to make our plays.

We had to work together to decide what our play would be about and we had to come up with the story and the characters.

Group 1's play was about a princess who was locked in a tower. Then her friends came to rescue her from the monster who had locked her up.

The mean guard locking up the princess.

Coming up with a rescue plan.

Group 2 also had a princess in their play. Sabra played the role of the beautiful princess who got lost at the market and was eventually found by the prince.

Going to the market on a horse.

Group 3's play was also very interesting and fun to watch. Their story was about a man who came and killed a family's horse. So the family bought a tiger and when the man came back the tiger ate his leg. The family saved him and he promised never to kill a horse again.

Group 3 practising their play.

Salim did a great job as the horse who tells the family that the other horse has been killed. Watch the video and hear his great horse noises.

Justis, in the role of the horse killer, comes back again the next night while the family is sleeping and is surprised to find a tiger! The tiger quickly starts eating his leg. The family saves him and then he promises never to hurt a horse again!

We had a lot of fun making up, rehearsing and performing our plays. At the end of the year we will be doing a whole school play. We are looking forward to it. We have already started practising dances and songs.

Questions:
1. If you could write your own play, what would it be about?
2. Have you ever been in a play? If yes, which character were you?
3. How many plays did we perform?
4. What was the moral of Group 3's play?
5. Do you know any stories with princesses in them? What happens in the story?