Putting On a Show
Theater for Young People
- Publisher
- Second Story Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2004
- Category
- General, Canadian
- Recommended Age
- 9 to 14
- Recommended Grade
- 4 to 9
- Recommended Reading age
- 9 to 12
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781896764894
- Publish Date
- Oct 2004
- List Price
- $14.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781926739564
- Publish Date
- Jan 2004
- List Price
- $14.99
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Description
An award-winning children's playwright tells all for kids. Using several of her plays, which have toured in Canada and the United States, as the centrepiece, Kathleen McDonnell talks about the history of theater and drama, with a who's who of players, inc
About the author
Kathleen McDonnell grew up in Chicago, but has lived in Canada for all of her adult life and graduated with a BA from the University of Toronto. She is the author of nine books of non-fiction and YA fiction. She's also written more than a dozen plays, many of which have had award-winning productions in Canada and the United States. As befits a passionate swimmer, McDonnell lives on Toronto Island; a unique, vibrant, mostly car-free community a ten-minute ferry ride from downtown Toronto where she and her life partner Alec raised their two daughters, Martha and Ivy.