Agost<\/em>, both at TNC). <\/p>\nI was, like many people I\u2019m sure, prejudiced, thinking that kiddies\u2019 theatre could by no means compare to adult theatre. I was SO wrong I don\u2019t know where to begin to apologise to all those companies that work SO hard not just at entertaining children but at making them sophisticated theatre spectators: Roseland, Ego Petits, Comediants, la Joventut de la Far\u00e0ndula, La Trepa, M\u00e9s Tum\u00e0quet… Hey, the only thing I can say is, check if there\u2019s any kid in your family or circle of friends willing to give theatre a try and go. (They\u2019re not always up to it, no matter how enticing you may sound… by the way, it\u2019s just a bit more expensive than cinema and can even be cheaper. It\u2019s worth it!). <\/p>\n
The kids take in their stride every experimental play they see -and, believe me, they are experimental to a degree you would never guess- as the most normal thing. Indeed, not all adults can be so open-minded, though I know that you can\u2019t turn a child into a theatre spectator if s\/he doesn\u2019t have the inclination. The only thing that worries me is that it\u2019s usually us, the adults, clapping wildly at the end while few kiddies show the same exact degree of enthusiasm. Of course, being so young they can\u2019t know that what they\u2019re being offered is truly special and it\u2019s hard to explain this to them unless they\u2019re subjected to a temporary diet of very bad theatre (um, where?). <\/p>\n
Paradoxically, with all this exciting theatre the kids might grow up to be jaded, soon-bored spectators and abandon the theatre eventually, if you know what I mean. I also worry about how the gap is filled between the ages of, say, 10, when kids probably simply reject kiddies theatre as too childish and, 18 (16?), when they\u2019re ready for adult theatre. Or maybe earlier? No idea, really… That\u2019s how little I, as a Literature teacher, know about the wildly underrated theatre for children and about kids as theatre spectators. Time to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When preparing a new subject what is usually a free-time activity for fun suddenly becomes work. I\u2019m now reading non-stop for a subject on Contemporary British Drama (1980s-2000s), which I haven\u2019t taught in a long time and truly look forward to teaching this second semester, and, so, now attending any play means work, yes, even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}