John Reed Middleton 
Stand up 
Scenes about Moral Courage

Stand Up is a play for students in Years 8, 9 or 10 (Level 4). It is designed for a normal-sized English class and for students with varying interests in acting. Since there are 41 roles – none of which are really minor – students who enjoy acting can perform in several scenes and play to their heart’s content, whereas students who aren’t particularly keen on acting only have one role to master in one single scene.
Every scene deals in a very special way with the question of moral courage and the many challenges young people face in our modern world when it comes time to stand up for what is right.
There are monologues, dialogues and scenes with as many as eight or nine performers.
The themes are geared to extreme situations which confront students nowadays – such as peer pressure, cyber bullying and gender-related bullying, exploitation, unprovoked violence, self-destruction and rejection – and offer young actresses and actors the opportunity to discover a wide range of relevant dramatic topics and expression while performing.

Despre autor

John Middleton was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (USA).
He was a teacher for 43 years at a German school in Hamburg where he taught English, Drama and Art.
He has also spent over 35 years subtitling films and translating screenplays (www.middleton-group-translations.com).
During the past 30 years he has performed his own five one-act plays (‘David, the Death of a Clown’, ‘Carnival at Castle Rock’, ‘Killing Daddy’, ‘Little Goethe’ and ‘Das Kleid’) at small theaters in and around Hamburg.

THE PLAYLET SERIES is his latest writing project, topical collections of scenes in English for English learners from Year 1 to Year 12 (Level 1 to Level 6) who want to perform (english-playlets.com).