Hello. I’m Stafford Ray, musician and writer with many years experience as a drama teacher, and I am offering, free of charge, two things:
- A collection of original musical plays with scripts, recorded songs plus their backing tracks to accompany your performances, and
- A Model Lesson Plan that was developed to keep my sanity and to add a powerful macro-literacy tool to the entertainment value.
- The lesson plan makes sure that:
- All students are gainfully busy all of the time.
- Every student gets an opportunity to play a main part.
- All learning styles are employed.
- All students gain the maximum benefit.
- Whether you use my plays, or plays written by other playwrights, I strongly recommend you try our Model Lesson Plan. For how and why it works, read the Rationale, but try the Lesson Plan and see how easy and fun drama can be.
- Download the script, song files, backing track files and the Lesson Plan, and you will have all the tools you need to produce a musical play with no need for special musical knowledge, and just watch those reading ages jump.
The plays and everything that goes with them are free to teachers and schools, but we would be delighted if you follow the links to take a look at my novels, short stories and my memoire. Of course they are not free, so if you buy one, a pittance comes back to us to finance the maintenance of the website.
We hope you and your students get as much fun and learning out of these plays as we did.