Children's theatre is theatre adapted to be performed to very young people, making sure it's easy to understand, but also engaging and appropriate. It needs to be vibrant, but simple and well staged. The themes can't be hard hitting, but instead uplifting and fun for the children, sometimes with a moral or an aspect of learning.
Children's theatre can often come across as simple and basic, but good children's theatre is able to engage both the children and their parents with comedic value and deeper meanings.
What skills does an excellent children’s theatre performer need to possess?
They need to be able to live in the moment. It is vital that they forget about how they might look or how silly people may think they are, because if they are constantly thinking about that then they won't be able to give a good performance. If they find it difficult to live in the moment, then they should practice infront of people who they can laugh about it with and start to feel more free with what they're doing. Don't overthink , just feel because if you start to overthink you can easily become negative about what your doing. It is important to have a non critical awareness of your self, which means that you need to be aware of what your doing, but not to a degree where you become self conscious. The actor needs to commit to discovery, if they do that then they will find the best ways to perform. Alway giving 100% energy means that the performance will be the most engaging and exciting it can be. Even if your performing in the lowest tension sate, you need to put 100% into doing that. The actor should allow the sound and body to become one, which allows the performance to be more expressive, energetic and engaging for the younger audience. When performing to a young audience, the performer should never speak to fast. If they do this they will quickly loose the attention of the children. In order to fix this the actor needs to work on their consonants and speaking in the front of their mouth. Modulating and changeing the voice and experimenting with vocal placement, will help to improve your stage voice and widen the range of your vocal ability. Being able to modulate the voice is important in children's theatre because using different voices keeps the children interested and excited. Just because your performing to children, don't make the performance really basic and bad, as long as you make it really clear, older audiences should be able to enjoy it to.
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