Use a folkstale readers theater repository as a springboard for your own creative inspiration.
Laura Gibbs has created a repository for readers theater from folktales around the world. Readers theater is a little different from a play performed in a theater. Instead of acting out the script, the readers aim to read the script aloud effectively so that listeners visualize what’s happening. Laura’s scripts are free for you to copy, adapt, remix, rewrite, and transform based on your own inspiration; her only request is that you credit the source — Laura Gibbs at Scripts.LauraGibbs.net — so that others can find her website, too.
Use Laura’s repository as a starting point for your own creative inspiration. Here are some ideas:
- Create an illustration for one of the stories.
- Gather some friends together to read and record one of the stories together.
- Change one of the stories in some way.
- Write a poem based on one of the stories.
- Change the lyrics of a folksong to tell one of the stories.
- Record the story by yourself and use a digital voice changer like voicechanger.io to make different voices. (Warning: This option is time consuming.)
- Write a synopsis of a readers theater story you would enjoy reading.
- Write your own readers theater story.
This Daily Create was inspired by Laura Gibb’s Folktale Readers Theater repository and the MYFest22 Readers Theater events.
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