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There's so much more to drama class than just teaching students how to act! Working on individual and group projects devoted to drama components helps students learn everything that the world of drama encompasses. From costumes, scenery, and props to memorization, character development, and creative writing, there is a vast array of skills to develop and explore. This book is an excellent resource for any drama teacher who wants to provide alternative ways to develop unique drama-related skills. Sixteen projects each contain an objective, an overview, a project timeline, idea variations, tips and tricks, fun facts, and more. Most tasks can be modified to be individual or group projects and can take from one to five class periods, depending on how much time you want to devote to a particular topic or component. A few chapters even include fun worksheets for the students to complete independently or in a group.
This practical handbook takes us on a step-by-step journey from pre-production through the rehearsal process, followed by focused advice on each genre from comedy to tragedy, Shakespeare to new plays and musicals. Special chapters offer strategies for dealing with difficult actors, working with producers and taking on the job of an Artistic Director.
An indispensable guide to a director's craft, packed full of advice and peppered with priceless anecdotes about the highs and the lows of a lifetime's work in the theatre.
A great gift idea for screenwriters: An unprecedented collection of exclusive interviews with Hollywood screenwriters, who reveal the secrets behind their successes and failures, offer uplifting stories about how faith in their talent has empowered their careers, and share colorful, entertaining anecdotes about our favorite stars and films.
Discover the secrets of Hollywood storytelling in this fascinating collection, in which fifty screenwriters share the inside scoop about how they surmounted incredible odds to break into the business...how they transformed their ideas into box office blockbusters...how their words helped launch the careers of major stars...how they earned accolades and Academy Awards(TM)...and how their careers affected their lives.
Entertaining, informative, and sometimes startling, Tales from the Script features exclusive interviews with film's top wordsmiths--Shane Black (Lethal Weapon), John Carpenter (Halloween), Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption), Nora Ephron (When Harry Met Sally...), William Goldman (The Princess Bride), Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver), John August (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), David Hayter (Watchmen), Bruce Joel Rubin (Ghost), and dozens of others.
Tales from the Script is a must for movie buffs who savor behind-the-scenes stories--and a master class for all those who dream of writing the Great American Screenplay, taught by those who made that dream come true.
You're loved the tv shows, the movies, and the podcasts, now get ready to dive deeper into the galaxy with cast and crew members Kurt Russell, James Spader, Richard Dean Anderson, and so much more! Featuring a complete guide to all 214 episodes and two movies, Chevrons Locked brings you the behind the scenes commentary to all your favorite seasons and adaptions. This is the book every fan has been waiting for!
Soar through the skies of London and Never Land with Peter Pan and his friends! Read in Walt Disney's own words his feelings and ideas about Never Land. Discover why it took nearly twenty years to make the animated feature even though Walt wanted it released in 1940. Learn how to make an official Tinker Bell cocktail that delighted Disney Legend Marc Davis.
For everyone who never wants to grow up even as they grow older, this book shares seventy years of stories of Disney's version of the Peter Pan story, from Walt Disney's first encounter as a child in 1909 with a memorable theatrical stage production to the upcoming live-action movie.
This book, thanks to years of intensive original research and interviews with people involved, documents information that has never before been in print. Every page features something new that will be unfamiliar to even the most dedicated fan.
Who was brought into the Disney Studio to create a bell vocabulary for Tinker Bell? Why is Captain Hook's deadly hook on the wrong hand? On what other projects did Bobby Driscoll supply the voice of Peter Pan in the 1950s? What is the complete list of Tinker Bell peanut butter commercials and who animated them?
Not only is the classic Disney animated feature covered in extensive detail but there are chapters about Peter Pan merchandise, the Peter Pan presence in the Disney theme parks including Disneyland's first flying Tinker Bells and attractions, Peter Pan in ice skating shows, Disney comics and more.
Chapters are devoted to other projects that were inspired by the original film including Return to Never Land, Pixie Hollow & Tinker Bell Films and Jake and the Never Land Pirates, among others. Chapters also showcase James M. Barrie's original work and the 1921 Paramount silent film version of Barrie's play that Walt Disney purchased for ideas.
Each chapter is self-contained so there is no necessity to read this book from beginning to end, but readers can skip to those chapters that hold the most interest for them.
With a little faith, trust and pixie dust, this book will transport you to a magical land where dreams are born and countless adventures await the young-in-heart.
Soar through the skies of London and Never Land with Peter Pan and his friends! Read in Walt Disney's own words his feelings and ideas about Never Land. Discover why it took nearly twenty years to make the animated feature even though Walt wanted it released in 1940. Learn how to make an official Tinker Bell cocktail that delighted Disney Legend Marc Davis.
For everyone who never wants to grow up even as they grow older, this book shares seventy years of stories of Disney's version of the Peter Pan story, from Walt Disney's first encounter as a child in 1909 with a memorable theatrical stage production to the upcoming live-action movie.
This book, thanks to years of intensive original research and interviews with people involved, documents information that has never before been in print. Every page features something new that will be unfamiliar to even the most dedicated fan.
Who was brought into the Disney Studio to create a bell vocabulary for Tinker Bell? Why is Captain Hook's deadly hook on the wrong hand? On what other projects did Bobby Driscoll supply the voice of Peter Pan in the 1950s? What is the complete list of Tinker Bell peanut butter commercials and who animated them?
Not only is the classic Disney animated feature covered in extensive detail but there are chapters about Peter Pan merchandise, the Peter Pan presence in the Disney theme parks including Disneyland's first flying Tinker Bells and attractions, Peter Pan in ice skating shows, Disney comics and more.
Chapters are devoted to other projects that were inspired by the original film including Return to Never Land, Pixie Hollow & Tinker Bell Films and Jake and the Never Land Pirates, among others. Chapters also showcase James M. Barrie's original work and the 1921 Paramount silent film version of Barrie's play that Walt Disney purchased for ideas.
Each chapter is self-contained so there is no necessity to read this book from beginning to end, but readers can skip to those chapters that hold the most interest for them.
With a little faith, trust and pixie dust, this book will transport you to a magical land where dreams are born and countless adventures await the young-in-heart.
This guide, How to Teach Drama to Kids will take someone unsure of the main principles of teaching theatre arts to various ages, through the basic categories and components principally considered to be the heart of the study of Drama. Whether you are a music or English teacher hired to teach a semester of Drama, or an actor commissioned to do a series of children's workshops, this guide will take you through a stage-by-stage process including exercises for the under 10 age group, the pre-teens, and the high-school ages. The author adds her own tips for making particularly challenging games or exercises work, and presents her own hints for keeping your resources and equipment to an inexpensive and manageable budget.
With chapters from the basics of Movement, Voice, Improvisation, Role-Playing and Scene Work to the more intricate additions of Story-Telling, Puppetry Stage-Fighting and Chorus-Line Dancing Steps, this guide is broken down so that you may choose to eliminate certain chapters from your planning or to add the author's hints for extending an exercise to make it last longer and to be more enriching to the students.
About the Expert
With her first on-stage appearance at age 4, her first leading role at age 11 and her professional stage roles culminating primarily in character parts in comedies, and for troupes catering to parties and murder mystery dinner theatres, Julie Johnson decided in 1997 that she would be well-suited to TEACH Drama to others. After graduating with a four-year specialist degree in teaching the Performing Arts, she moved to England to further work in both schools and theater. While mostly teaching high school Theater Arts since then (in three different countries) she has also been a leader of workshops for pre-teens and adults, a guest-speaker at college level, an adjudicator for theatre festivals and a coach and judge for speech and debate competitions. Here, in this guide, she offers many of her tips, games and exercises for teaching three different age groups under 18 years.
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In the twenty years since this book was first published, our nation's communities - from urban centers to rural and small communities dotting our landscape - have had their foundations rocked to the core. Yet, despite the economic, social, and cultural challenges they have experienced, communities all across our country are showing their resilience by
reinventing themselves. This is especially true for many of rural and small communities whose persistence and self-determination show the same creativity, the same grit, the same shared values that brought them into existence.
One of the ways these communities are doing this is by engaging in community making through the arts. The arts invite us to tell our story and listen to the story of others. As we work together and celebrate our community creativity, the arts bring people of all ages, genders, races,
religions, and economic backgrounds together for the common good of reconnecting with each other and celebrating who we are as individuals and communities. Community arts provide a new gathering place, a cultural and spiritual touchstone that is a source of community revitalization and neighborhood revival. I believe our rural and small communities are creating the map our nation is searching for that will help us navigate the challenges awaiting all of us as we work together rebuilding the front porch of America.
We live in times of crisis. How has the theatre responded? Has the theatre lived up to its essential purpose: to hold up the mirror to our turbulent times?
This book looks at the courageous responses from dozens of playwrights over the past hundred years, writing about urgent issues - from World War II to communism, apartheid, the AIDs epidemic, gay hate crime, urban race riots, conflict in the Middle East, Africa, and Afghanistan, systemic racism, immigrant identity, the refugee crisis, authoritarianism, failing educational systems, environmental peril, and, most recently, the pandemic. These dedicated writers (from four continents) and the theatres who support them have taken huge risks to heighten our awareness to the urgent issues of our times. This book will acknowledge the exciting new dramatic forms they have created, their heroic efforts, and the changes that they have provoked and continue to do so.
CRISIS contains discussion of the following plays:
Disgraced; Grounded; Mother Courage and Her Children; Guantanamo: 'Honor Bound to Defend Freedom.'; The Niceties; Black Watch; An Ordinary Muslim; A Number; Blue Heart; Cloud Nine; Escaped Alone; Far Away; American Moor;Ain't No Mo; Fairview; Death of England and Death of England: Delroy; Blood Knot and Other Plays; Three Port Elizabeth Plays; Master Harold... and the boys; Eclipsed; Beat the Devil: A Covid Monologue; Stuff Happens; Slave Play; 1984 by George Orwell; An Octoroon; The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later; Mosquitos; The Children; Angels in America; Death of a Salesman; Hamilton: The Revolution; In the Heights; Pipeline; The Jungle; The Guys; The Apple Family: A Pandemic Trilogy; Ruined; Pass Over; Father Comes Home from the Wars, Parts 1, 2, & 3; The America Play and Other Works; Topdog/Underdog; White Noise; Rockets and Blue Lights; The Lehman Trilogy; Notes from the Field; Twilight Los Angeles: 1992 and others.
What is theatre? What is performance? What connects them and how are they different? How have they been shaped by events, people, companies, practices and ideas in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? And where are they heading next? The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance offers some answers to these big questions. This third edition has been updated to now include over 160 entries, with all entries brought up to date and new topics added, including Caryl Churchill, Black Lives Matter and Hamilton, among others.
This book provides an accessible, informative and engaging introduction to important people and companies, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Three easy-to-use alphabetized sections include entries on topics and people ranging from performance artists Marina Abramovic and Pope.L to directors Vsevolod Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, the haka, Taking the Knee and disability, theatre and performance. Each entry includes important historical and contextual information, extensive cross-referencing, detailed analysis and an annotated bibliography.
The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance is a perfect reference guide for the keen student and the passionate theatre-goer alike.
