Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Introduction
• The Plays
• Original Stories
  • The Arkansaw Bear
  • Super Cowgirl and Mighty Miracle
  • Tomato Plant Girl
• Compelling Adaptations
  • Afternoon of the Elves
  • Broken Hearts
  • Courage!
• Historical Drama
  • Mother Hicks
  • Johnny Tremain
• Diverse Themes
  • la ofrenda
  • The Transition of Doodle Pequeño
• Friendship
  • In the Garden of the Selfish Giant
• Future Societies
  • With Two Wings
• Appendices
  • Twelve More Plays with Mature Themes for Consideration / Deliberation
  • Another Twelve Plays with Mature Themes for Reading / Study
  • Quotation from the Foreword by Jed H. Davis to the first edition of Theatre For Youth: Twelve Plays With Mature Themes, 1986

About the Author

Coleman A. Jennings (1933–2020) was a professor in the area of drama and theatre for youth and communities at the University of Texas at Austin. Gretta Berghammer is a professor of youth theatre/drama education at the University of Northern Iowa.