"Sleeping Beauty" is told in a pop up book format as a Personal Story, as if my great grandmother was the Nonni for the princess Victoria, named after Queen Victoria. At the end when she is awakened after 100 years, she goes outside the palace and finds herself in a modern city. She says she wants to go back, but Freddy Prince, her modern prince charming, tells her "You can't go back, this is the 21st Century, you can't go back".
After the show, I urge the children to talk to their grandparents, and older people in their family, and ask them to tell about when they were young, and then to write their own personal book.
This play is wonderful introduction to WRITING a personal story and making a family book.
