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The Play: Hating Alison Ashley
114 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1988
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Richard Tulloch
68 books1 followerRichard Tulloch is one of Australia's most popular writers of books, plays, film, and television for young audiences. His television series', which include 150 episodes of the phenomenal BANANAS IN PYJAMAS, have reached an audience of hundreds of millions around the world. In 1998 he won his third Australian Writers' Guild AWGIE award for his play BODY AND SOUL, and was also nominated in America for the prestigious Hollywood 'Annie' award for his screenplay for the animated feature film FERN GULLY II: THE MAGICAL RESCUE.
Of his 40 children's books, DANNY IN THE TOYBOX, BEING BAD FOR THE BABYSITTER, COCKY COLIN and the BARRY THE BURGLAR series were nominated by children for KOALA awards as their all-time favourite books. His most recent titles, WEIRD STUFF, FREAKY STUFF, and AWESOME STUFF, have been very popular.
Of his 40 children's books, DANNY IN THE TOYBOX, BEING BAD FOR THE BABYSITTER, COCKY COLIN and the BARRY THE BURGLAR series were nominated by children for KOALA awards as their all-time favourite books. His most recent titles, WEIRD STUFF, FREAKY STUFF, and AWESOME STUFF, have been very popular.
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August 3, 2021
I have read the actual novel, and we read this play out loud in class. Coincidently I got Alison Ashely and my friend got Erica Yurken. This is a great and funny play. I also love the novel quite a lot!!
November 4, 2021
alright.
August 30, 2020
This term, I’m teaching both of my year 7 classes a drama unit called Act It Out. With my favourite class (don’t tell the other guys!) we spent last week doing a rehearsed reading of this fun and funny play.
Erica Yurken, or Erk, or Yuk, is a year 6 student at Baringa East Primary and she’s spent the whole year learning the lines of the lead in the school camp’s traditional final night play. But two things happen to get in the way of her dreams of stardom. First, the new girl, Alison Ashley, is just too perfect for her own good. And second, Miss Belmont announces that the school will not be performing the play Erica has spent the whole year preparing for. Joined by a cast of quirky characters, Erica has to overcome quite a few hurdles before the big night.
This would be a fun play to actually perform, but our focus is on learning about the structural elements of a written script. Good plays are hard to find for the year 7 and 8 age group, but this is a great example of how a playwright presents his or her work on the page to make the actors’ job easy, and it’s been lots of fun to teach it.
Erica Yurken, or Erk, or Yuk, is a year 6 student at Baringa East Primary and she’s spent the whole year learning the lines of the lead in the school camp’s traditional final night play. But two things happen to get in the way of her dreams of stardom. First, the new girl, Alison Ashley, is just too perfect for her own good. And second, Miss Belmont announces that the school will not be performing the play Erica has spent the whole year preparing for. Joined by a cast of quirky characters, Erica has to overcome quite a few hurdles before the big night.
This would be a fun play to actually perform, but our focus is on learning about the structural elements of a written script. Good plays are hard to find for the year 7 and 8 age group, but this is a great example of how a playwright presents his or her work on the page to make the actors’ job easy, and it’s been lots of fun to teach it.
May 18, 2022
eugh-
the story isn't actually bad.
Cept when you are in the middle of doing this play at school and have to re do all of the scenes 200000000 times- it begins to drag.
the story isn't actually bad.
Cept when you are in the middle of doing this play at school and have to re do all of the scenes 200000000 times- it begins to drag.
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