What is children’s Theater
A term employed to denote the performance of plays by professional actors for a children’s audience. These plays are usually constructed along conventional lines using writers, directors, designers and occasionally puppetry, music and dance. The plays may include some form of seated vocal participation. The term usually distinguishes work for children under 12 years of age as opposed to the term ‘young people’s theatre’, which includes work aimed at teenagers.
In the first half of the twentieth century, children’s theatre in Britain amounted to occasional productions with spectacular visual effects mounted for short seasons, often at Christmas time in large commercial theatres, exemplified by Peter Pan (1904) by J. M. Barrie or Where the Rainbow Ends (1911) by Clifford Mills and John Ramsey. The content of such plays was often myth or fantasy, and frequently drew on well-known literature for its source. As regional repertory theatres developed they regularly produced the few classics from the repertoire, such as Maeterlinck’s The Bluebird or adaptations of popular books such as Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, in addition to the traditional Christmas pantomime.
Source used: https://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/genres/childrens-theatre-iid-2471
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