More than that: I remember that when the possibility of my going to school in England was mentioned it felt as exciting as any voyage beyond the rainbow. I remember that “The Wizard of Oz”-the film, not the book, which I didn’t read as a child-was my very first literary influence. My bad memory-what my mother would call a “forgettery”-is probably just as well. I have forgotten almost everything about his adventures, except for an encounter with a talking pianola, whose personality is an improbable hybrid of Judy Garland, Elvis Presley, and the “playback singers” of Hindi movies, many of which made “The Wizard of Oz” look like kitchen-sink realism. The rainbow is broad, as wide as the sidewalk, and is constructed like a grand staircase. It was about a ten-year-old Bombay boy who one day happens upon a rainbow’s beginning, a place as elusive as any pot-of-gold end zone, and as rich in promises. Maybe he didn’t really find the story, in which case he had succumbed to the lure of fantasy, and this was the last of the many fairy tales he told me or else he did find it, and hugged it to himself as a talisman and a reminder of simpler times, thinking of it as his treasure, not mine-his pot of nostalgic parental gold. Shortly before my father’s death, in 1987, he claimed to have found a copy moldering in an old file, but, despite my pleadings, he never produced it, and nobody else ever laid eyes on the thing. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, why not put on your very own school production, using our play script as a starting point.I wrote my first story in Bombay at the age of ten its title was “Over the Rainbow.” It amounted to a dozen or so pages, dutifully typed up by my father’s secretary on flimsy paper, and eventually it was lost somewhere on my family’s mazy journeyings between India, England, and Pakistan. If you have read our book Park Lane School Presents.
They can be elaborately staged events, or just a simple assembly. It is a good way to end a term and get parents more actively involved. They can be performed at any time of the year and not just at Christmas. Is an actor, who is comfortable learning lines and being on the stageĮnjoys making props, costumes, or helping with technical skills backstage, in sound or lightingĪ positive experience in a school play boosts confidence and helps a child to feel valued.
There is a role for everyone, whether the child: The school play enables a group, or class of children, to interact together and to work in a team. School plays are an incredible platform to introduce children to drama, to music, to theatre skills. Frank Baum, for you to adapt for your class or school performance. A short play script for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, based on the original book by L.
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