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Adaptor 1 Burdett, Lois
Date of First Production
1996
Title Macbeth For Kids
Director
Lois Burdett
Place of First Production
Hamlet Public School, Stratford, ON
Production Company
Hamlet Public School
Series Festival Title
Shakespeare Can Be Fun!
Cast/Performers
Duncan:
Malcolm:
Donalbain:
Macbeth:
Lady Macbeth:
Banquo:
Fleance:
Macduff:
Lady Macduff:
Young Macduff:
Ross:
Lennox:
Angus:
Old Siward:
Young Siward:
Three Witches:
A Sergeant:
A Porter:
Seyton:
Murderers:
A Gentlewoman:
A Doctor:
Three Apparition Spirits:
Eight Apparition Kings:
Performance History
1996, Utah Shakespearean Festival
Awards
The Writer's Award from The Federation of Women Teachers Associations of Ontario
Publishing and Multimedia
*Burdett, Lois. Macbeth For Kids (Shakespeare Can Be Fun!). Windsor: Black Moss Press, 1996.
 
*Burdett, Lois. Macbeth For Kids (Shakespeare Can Be Fun!). Windsor: Black Moss Press, 1996.
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Secondary Materials
*Johnson, Bert. Speech to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 25 Aug. 2003.
[Link1].
  http://www.ontla.on.ca/hansard/house_debates/36_parl/session1/L057.htm#P21_3438
Adaptor 1 Bibliography
*Anderson, Wendy. "Lois Burdett Awarded the Fred L. Bartlett Memorial Award for 1999." Avon Maitland District School Board. 25 Aug. 2003.
http://www.avonmaitland.on.ca/Pages/MEDIA_REL/1999/99_0619.html.
*Cecil, Lynn A. "Profile: Lois Burdett." Canadian Childrens Literature 85 (Spring 1997): 41-44.
*O'Connell, Lisa. "The village pupil: making the connection between school and community." Today's Parent 15.11 (Dec. 1998-Jan. 1999): 37-42.
*Sheppard, Philippa. "Bardolatry for beginners: Grade 2s spouting Shakespeare? Lois Burdett makes it happen at Hamlet Public School (Stratford)." Quill and Quire 62.6 (June 1996): 53-4.
*Zak, Karen. "Smitten by Shakespeare: second graders ask for 'more'." Teach magazine (May/June 1997): 22-4.
*"ASF and the Alabama Humanities Foundation Offers Teacher Seminar with Lois Burdett on July 10,1999." Alabama Shakespeare Festival. 25 Aug. 2003.
http://www.asf.net/Archive/teachersem.html.
*"Shakespeare Can Be Fun! series by Lois Burdett." Firefly Books. 25 Aug. 2003.
http://www.fireflybooks.com/Kids/Shakespeare.html.
  http://www.avonmaitland.on.ca/Pages/MEDIA_REL/1999/99_0619.html
http://www.asf.net/Archive/teachersem.html
http://www.fireflybooks.com/Kids/Shakespeare.html
Synopsis
"Macbeth for Kids, follows Twelfth Night for Kids and A Child's Portrait of Shakespeare, all written in rhyming couplets and suitable for staging as class plays as well as reading aloud" (Burdett back cover).
Keywords
Children's Theatre
Notes
"I think Shakespeare wrote the Scottish play to tell the people that bad doesn't pay and what goes around comes around Matt 7 yrs. old" (qtd. in Burdett back cover).
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Adaptation of
Macbeth
Entry Last Updated 25Aug03 4:08PM

 

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