{"id":1319685,"date":"2020-04-28T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T05:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/trtc-to-livestream-playwriting-workshop-for-kids\/"},"modified":"2020-04-28T23:32:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T05:32:00","slug":"trtc-to-livestream-playwriting-workshop-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/trtc-to-livestream-playwriting-workshop-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"TRTC to livestream playwriting workshop for kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/PuppetPlays-gpi-042920-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/PuppetPlays-gpi-042920-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/PuppetPlays-gpi-042920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/PuppetPlays-gpi-042920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/PuppetPlays-gpi-042920-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/PuppetPlays-gpi-042920-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Puppet Plays was created by Kristin Carlson to teach grade-school kids about writing plays.<\/strong><br \/><em>Provided<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">While school-aged children are staying home full time due to COVID-19, parents are likely looking for anything to occupy their kid\u2019s time that may also provide some educational benefit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Thunder River Theatre Company and its new venture \u2014 Thunderstream, is ready, willing and able to help fill that void. As such, they will livestream \u201cCamp Thunderstream: Puppet Plays\u201d on Wednesday at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">TRTC Puppet Plays is a playwriting series that will include four, short online episodes that introduce basic playwriting concepts for kids in grades 2\u20134. Each episode has an accompanying downloadable \u201cplaysheet\u201d to get kids to write their own puppet play. Kids can then submit their work to TRTC and, depending on submissions, TRTC may create a small showing after the completion of the series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Puppet Plays is the brainchild of Kristin Carlson \u2014 a playwright and Associate Artist at TRTC \u2014 whose original idea was to create an assembly for grade-school kids about writing plays that would include improv artists from the theater company. But following the governor\u2019s stay-at-home order, TRTC Artistic Director Corey Simpson approached Carlson about using the theater company\u2019s Thunderstream to instead teach kids at home.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row gspi-donation gspi-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/PI-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/PI-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI gave it some thought and we had another conversation and I said, \u2018Corey! Puppets!\u2019 Carlson said. \u201cSo I just started writing, and what was going to be an assembly that we would hold at the school became a four-part \u2018Writing Plays with Puppets\u2019 series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The show will begin with TRTC Consensual Improv! members Sonya Meyer and Gerald DeLisser doing a bit of improv with two of the puppets, and then Carlson and her husband Jeff Carlson, who will animate a puppet named \u201cIggy,\u201d will take over for the teaching portion of the show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI\u2019ll be trying to teach Iggy how to do these things, and he has imagined these two characters who are going to come in and act out all the things we\u2019re messing around with,\u201d Carlson said. \u201cSo part of it is scripted, and part of it is for the improv artists to go a little wild with ideas and give kids the idea that writing is fun, playwriting is really fun, and you can do it at home and all it takes is your imagination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s a little like public television meets some wild people in your living room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cPuppet Plays\u201d will be livecast, but following the livecast it will be available to stream anytime on the TRTC website, so it will be available for parents to work into their home school days schedule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Simpson said that TRTC is planning to launch more programming for kids on Thunderstream in the near future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe\u2019re aware that during this time, a lot of people are sheltering in place,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re just really aware that parents are looking for fun and interesting things to do with their kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><a href=\"mailto:jbear@postindependent.com\">jbear@postindependent.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/local\/trtc-to-livestream-playwriting-workshop-for-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puppet Plays was created by Kristin Carlson to teach grade-school kids about writing plays.Provided While school-aged children are staying home full time due to COVID-19, parents are likely looking for anything to occupy their kid\u2019s time that may also provide some educational benefit. 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