Welcome to Earth and other plays (with forward by Benjamin Zephaniah)
Welcome to Earth and other plays (with forward by Benjamin Zephaniah)
‘Welcome to Earth' contains 30 short remote plays written and performed by children in Palestine. The book is organised around the UN rights of the child and there are plays related to the right to survival, the right to protection, the right to participation, and the right to development.
As well as the full script, there is a QR code for each play showing the performances by the children themselves, and accompanying notes from each teacher about how and why the play was made.
‘The plays in this book are written by people who care, and they are to be performed by young people who dare. They dare to put their bodies on the line and speak out, and they dare to express themselves and give it a go. They dare to reclaim theatre, and take it back to its roots' from the introduction by Benjamin Zephaniah.