StoryStage Books

A series of interActive playbooks

StoryStage Books An interactive, personal and educational web-based and cdRom Play Series. The story forms of fairytales, theatre classics, and contemporary short literary works are taken and adapted to play scenarios where the user participates in the production experience.

StoryStage Books can be applied as an introduction to or study of a broad spectrum of Literary Works through computer theatre.

Using interActive, mutiMedia innovations to make path choices with different results, StoryStage Books communicate any story through the use of traditional theatrical techniques and tools:


• Discovery of the narrative through stage directions

• Interaction with fictional characters

• Design capabilities through various options:

• Affect the atmosphere through lighting and sound choices

• Select costumes and properties

• Build a character by adapting the traits of each role

• Choose the venue

• Use the cursor as a spotlight to highlight an area of the stage

• Adapt vocabulary reading levels to suit age and comprehensibility

• Role play by taking a scene and playing it through any character's point of view,

OR

• Sit back and watch the action play itself out to the finale through text,
illustrations and video animation

• Appendices can include:

- Play production notes

- Exercises and directions for a presentation of the play

- Glossary of terms with detailed definitions

StoryStage Books Title List

Original Work:

prose:

the Land of Éfree

Digressions

Back to Flandoon

plays:

be aware & Safety First!

Kids against Drunk Drivers - a moral musical tale

the Why of the What - a science play

earthBodies - an evironmental interactivity

The Adventures of Professor Quaker - (the Circus Shrinker)

the Moronic Plague - a cautionary contagion

Concerning Mr. Marquis - a biography of nationhood

Make Belief Gardens -an omnibus of children's plays for every age

- The Six Sillies, Big Claus and Little Claus, Leaves, Madschun,

The Foolish Maiden, the Magic Sack of Truth, The Stone in the Road

Adaptations :

the Lorax … from the environmental epic poem by Dr. Seuss

a Helping Hand … based on a short story by Bertolt Brecht

Zero Hour … from the Ray Bradbury story

The Arroyo Café - poems, scenes and monologues by cummings, Mamet, Pinter and others

Tales From Shakespeare … from the stories by Charles & Mary Lamb

My Financial Career … from the Steven Leacock story

A Strange Story, The Ransom of Red Chief, etc. … from the O. Henry stories

The Steel Cat, the Chaser, etc. … from stories by John Collier

selections from archy and mehitabel … from the episodes by Don Marquis

Johnny Pye and the Foolkiller … from the story by Steven Vincent Bénet

Professor Quaker the Rainbow Maker … with Sheldon Oberman from his story

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