Fun With Drama Volume 4

Fun With Drama Volume 4 features eight plays six of which turn the spotlight on THE MYSTERY OF HISTORY! 

Tick, tock goes the clock as we back up in time to try to play out what really happened! There remains a mystery behind all the facts where imagination must play some role!

Discover the MYSTERY OF HISTORY looking back in time at local communities and at the world scene.

Time Marches On! Fur Trade Connections tells the saga of James Knight a historical person who became Chief Factor at York Factory around 1700. Meet James Knight as he gets news of his big promotion! Thanadelthur, a native Dene woman seeks refuge at York Factory and stirs James Knight’s imagination about the riches of her native land! It’s a mystery how the native Dene and Cree communicated with each other and with James Knight! Connect supply and demand for furs in a scene in London, England! The tragic ending can only be imagined!

The Kid and the ‘Boy-King’ harks back to Ancient Egypt in King Tut’s era. A ten year old “meets” the ‘Boy-King’ and gives him a present! Learn about how people lived. Are you studying Ancient Egypt? Then add some dialogue to this play either planned or improvised!

Remembering Thomas Dole: A Canadian soldier and a native Algonquin, Thomas Dole signed up for the army to look after his adventurous younger brother. Facts and imagination pull together to bring this moving play to life!

A Canadian War Bride’s Story is a love story ‘par excellence’ linking Scotland and Canada during World War II. Jean and Carman meet at a dance and fall in love! Carman survived the landing on Normandy Beach in World War II and the rest — well, it’s part of the mystery of history!

Local history is featured in Ghosts of Cumberland Past. Meeting real people of this small community just east of Ottawa leaves plenty of scope for drama! Read this play and start looking for a story in your local community. Write a play and invite locals to enjoy and debate the past together!

Murder at the Navan Station is another play about local history. The war made this small community quite suspicious of strangers. They were afraid of spies! It highlights people of the community and a stranger who turns murderer. Lots of questions come to mind. Debate the possible thoughts and motives of the stranger!

Two marine life plays for primary children complete Fun with Drama Volume 4.

Dolphy’s Ocean Adventures is full of a young dolphin’s adventures — a brush with death and then with a serious skin rash caused by water pollution. Dolphy sends a message to children of the world: “Stop water pollution”!

Riding the Ocean Waves is a play about several sea creatures having health problems and similarly asking humans to stop water pollution. This is an adaptation for a puppet show.

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