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Arts I Students Handbook : An Introductory Course
by Penny Engelsman, Alan Englesman, Rebecca Wendling
British Columbia Children's Hospital, Vancouver. A collection of over 50 tested structured group techniques for use in helping people with communication difficulties. Includes exercises for children and adults. For occupational therapists. Halftone line drawings. Previous edition: c1992. Softcover.
 Education
and Dramatic Art
by David Hornbrook On
the Subject of Drama
The
Creative Classroom : A Guide for Using Creative Drama in the Classroom
Pre-K - 6
The Creative Classroom provides teachers in grades PreK-6 with a number of creative drama strategies for use in the classroom, on a daily basis and across the curriculum. Designed for the teacher who may not have had any prior knowledge or experience with creative drama, the book presents activities that are uncomplicated and versatile with a step-by step procedural guide to help the teacher implement the activities successfully. The activities are ideal for the whole language classroom and their multi sensory approach makes them applicable to students of all learning styles. The techniques in the book can be used to reinforce and review subject matter as well as to promote language, comprehension, and thinking skills. Organized sequentially, from simple to the more complex, the instructional strategies allow teachers and students to risk in increments as they try something for the first time. Creative
Drama for the Classroom Teacher
Focusing on materials and methods for teaching drama, rather than on theory or history, this text offers a collection of practical, progressive techniques for using informal drama in elementary classrooms. KEY TOPICS: It covers role drama that introduces key features of the British approach to drama teaching; literature for narrative pantomime; pantomime activities and stories; verbal activities and improvisation; planning drama lessons; and more. For creative drama instructors.
Dorothy Heathcote has become somewhat of a legendary figure in modern Drama education - this book summarises and guides teachers through the strategies and the mindset that will allow this approach to be fully realised. Dorothy
Heathcote : Drama As a Learning Medium
Imagining to Learn : Inquiry, Ethics, and Integration Through Drama
A new book looking at Drama as an educational tool. In Imagining to Learn, Jeffrey Wilhelm and Brian Edmiston demonstrate how drama taps into the imagination to create powerful learning contexts. Imagining to Learn moves drama into the mainstream of elementary and middle school teaching, learning, and curriculum. It is filled with examples of how teachers and students together can create contexts that tap into students' energies, abilities, and questions-- --contexts where students can discover a reason to read, a need to think, and a community that cares about their ideas.
 Acting
from the Ultimate Consciousness
Acting Interactive Theatre: A Handbook
Get the jump on everyone as soon as this book is released. Acting Interactive Theatre provides step-by-step guidelines for creating your own show -including suggestions on everything from casting to maintenance rehearsals. The book also features a detailed outline of the rehearsal process, with 150 fully annotated workshop exercises to develop creativity, ensemble improv skills, interactive characterization, performance elements, and more. The
Art of Play : The New Genre of Interactive Theatre
Subtitled The New Genre of Interactive Theatre, this useful, informative book serves as an introduction and guidebook to the recently popularized style of theatre in which audience members take part in a semiscripted "occasion" (Tony 'n Tina's Wedding, Grandma Sylvia's Funeral, etc.) in which actors ad-lib many of their lines and audience members are drawn into the action. Mounted in churches, catering halls, and medieval fairs, these interactive theater events demand a range of new techniques and strategies for the author, director, and especially the actors. Izzo's carefully laid-out book offers plenty of nuts-and-bolts advice while telling the history of these techniques, many of which date back to commedia dell'arte and beyond.
Lights! Camera! Action! Build a stage set, shoot a movie, learn to act - this drama class-in-a-book offers children a wide-ranging introduction to the basics of theater and film, and a new vehicle for expressing their creativity. Step-by-step instructions help kids visualize the dramatic process from start to finish: writing a script, making props, dress rehearsals, and the final performance. Includes an illustrated glossary and a special certificate in the back of the book for those who've completed the class. What's the history of drama? How does one "act"? Readers find the answers to these questions and many more in this new reference with a kid-friendly approach. With a lively text and full color illustrations, "Drama School" helps kids direct creative energy into fun activities, such as writing a script, creating costumes, constructing puppets, making a movie, organizing a rehearsal, and learning to act. by Christopher McCullough (Editor) In the founding of the first drama department in a British university almost 50 years ago, questions arose regarding the nature of the discipline. THEATRE PRAXIS addresses the debate beyond those initial questions, seeking to define practice in terms of practical work that recognizes its potential for change. Creative
Drama Resource Book: For Kindergarten Through Grade 3
The teaching of performing arts has often mystified teachers and daycare providers. This book is ideal to help them overcome their hesitations and begin teaching the performing arts in their K-3 classrooms. KEY TOPICS: Written by a teacher with over 25 years of experience, this book is chock-full of activities that will help readers incorporate theater arts and creative drama in their classrooms - from puppetry to play attendance. Includes over 20 sample lesson plans! K-3 teachers, daycare providers, and after-school program facilitators. Drama
(Resource Books for Teachers)
A practical book by a passionate teacher. An amazing array of resources, including a good selection of games and special focus on Drama in an ESL program. Drama
and Traditional Story for the Early Years
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Drama
As a Meaning Maker
Republished in 1999 this classic text has 30 new games and over 200 updated descriptions. For the first time it contains "The Lone Actor", an essay on solo theatre games. Theater Games for Rehearsal : A Director's Handbook Theater Game File (Index Cards and Handbook) Theater
Games for the Classroom : A Teacher's Handbookby Viola Spolin
This text is a remarkable teaching tool. In the hands of a good teacher these games can be modified and extended to introduce and explore a wide range of Drama principles. Handbook
of Educational Drama and Theatre
"Provides a detailed overview of the ways in which theater techniques are used to enrich the lives of many sections of the population. . . . The book's core is excellent interviews with practitioners. . . . Students seeking information about nontraditional drama careers will find this an essential handbook; and students, teachers, and professionals in traditional theater may well find wider horizons for their own work here. Each chapter's bibliography includes films, tapes, and the names and addresses of appropriate organizations. Appendixes list specialists in the US and UK, and there is a directory of selected college programs in both countries. Highly recommended for libraries at all levels."
Kids Take the Stage is written for teachers, parents, camp counselors, drama students, grandparents, church leaders -- anyone who wants to start a dramatics group or simply do shows with children and teens. No theatre training or experience is required, but even professional theatre people will find the book very helpful as they learn how to convey their own expertise in easy terms that young people will readily understand. Theatre Games for Young Performers
More games for students. Written especially for those who coach adolescent actors, this delightfully fresh workbook tells you the how, when, what and why of theatre games for young performers. Anyone working with young actors in schools or recreational centers will find this book exceptionally helpful. The basics of pantomime, improvisations, voice control, monologs and dialogs are all presented in game formats with exercises and worksheets for easy organization.  Teaching
Shakespeare into the Twenty-First Century
by Ronald E. Salomone (Editor), James E. Davis (Editor)
Ready-To-Use
Activities for Teaching Hamlet (Shakespeare Teacher's Activities Library)
Ready-To-Use
Activities for Teaching Julius Caesar (Shakespeare Teacher's Activity Library)
Ready-To-Use
Activities for Teaching MacBeth (Shakespeare Teacher's Activities Library)
Structuring
Drama Work : A Handbook of Available Forms in Theatre and Drama
A wonderfully practically and intensely theoretically sound text. Carefully articulated edition. Jonothan Neelands is regarded by many as one of the best Drama educators in the world - this book explores that ever important aspect of teaching Drama - the structure of learning opportunities. This carefully categorises and nominates the structures implicit in Drama activities. As a teaching tool this book assists the teacher in carefully determining appropriate activities and the devising of original Drama activities to teach specific elements of Drama.
6 working actors describe their methods and philosophies of the theater. All have worked with playwright David Mamet at the Goodman Theater in Chicago.
Collected Writings on Education and Drama by Dorothy Heathcote, Liz Johnson, Cecily O'Neill (Editor) Some great articles by some of the best Drama teachers in the business. The
Death of Character: Perspectives on Theater After Modernism
The
Enjoyment of the Theatre by
Kenneth M. Cameron and Patti P. Gillespie
This book is very substantial covering hundreds of topics in 1200 pages. It considers many aspects and periods of drama and theatre production - all the major periods are represented and some exciting questions are asked. A valuable addition to any drama-philes book collection.
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Directing in the School : A Drama Director's Survival Guide
by David Grote, Arthur L. Zapel (Editor) Directing plays in schools requires knowledge and talents far different than directing for community or professional theatre. In ten comprehensive chapters the author explains the "real world" of producing effective theatricals in the school environment. He details the pitfalls and the problems while providing ideas for consistently successful shows. He covers budgeting, scheduling, faculty politics, motivating and disciplining students and many other school-life realities beyond a director or teacher's job description. Anyone faced with producing a play needs this book as a "Bible" for guidance and fulfillment of objectives. A drama director's survival guide.
Taking
Time to Act : A Guide to Cross-Curricular Drama
Taking Time to Act proves just how effective drama can be in creating active and enjoyable environments for teaching and learning. The authors make the critical link between theory and practice, supporting wide-ranging examples of drama in action with clear explanations of philosophy and principles. Their ideas are straightforward, practical, and most of all manageable, always emphasizing that you can do it. Taking Time to Act provides invaluable assistance to any teacher with an interest in and enthusiasm for educational drama both in and out of the classroom. About the Author
Acting
in Classroom Drama : A Critical Analysis
Collected
Writings on Education and Drama
Creative
Drama in the Classroom and Beyond
Drama
in the Classroom : Creative Activities for Teachers, Parents & Friends
Drama is not just play acting, it includes creative activities, conceptual learning, and whole body involvement. Drama helps all children gain confidence and a better sense of self. Adult and child alike are involved in both teaching and learning through the process of intuitive discovery. The activities included in Drama In The Classroom can be used as an adjunct or even an integral part of a regular curriculum. Parents at home, working and playing with their children, or adults seeking more creativity in their lives, will also enjoy and benefit from the exercises. Through dramatic activities, young people can find their true and unique selves; appreciate the talents and needs of others; feel the satisfaction of working successfully with a group; develop skills which will be useful for other endeavors; help add meaning to factual material; and provide a safe working atmosphere that is as free as possible from anxiety and competition. Drama In The Classroom features 76 original lessons including a variety of activities for grades K-8; a question and answer section; specific goals, readiness activities, step-by-step procedures, and evaluations for each lesson. Drama In The Classroom is as appropriate and effective for home schooling collaborations as it is for public school classes. Directing
for the Stage :
The forty-two exercises detailed in this comprehensive guide provide both the instructor and the student a "user-friendly" workshop structure. It may be used for both beginning and advanced courses of Directing for Theatre. The basic concepts of directing are learned progressively. The approach is totally experiential.
by Toby Heathcotte Ideal for beginning teachers, supervisors, and teachers assigned outside their expertise. This guide is chock-full of ideas, techniques, and resources from ordering play scripts to hosting a speech tournament, from running an auditorium to getting results from the front office. It also includes day-to-day activities. Written by a veteran high school teacher, this book is used as a supplement in college training programs. Reviews: "What a magnificent piece of advice book, a must for beginning speech and drama teachers. I am so pleased with this sharing of 30 years of successful experience. Stuff has a very wise, common sense attitude towards teaching, walking the line between the demands of students and administrators. An
Annotated Dictionary of Technical, Historical,
A very prestigious text for any serious student or practitioner of the theatre.
Theatre Exercises You Haven't Tried Yet is full of new games, ad libs, bluffs, improvs, and twists on standard drama exercises. Also included is a section on the use of copyright-free scripts as learning tools.
Drama Games : Techniques for Self-Development by Tian Dayton Playbuilding:
a Guide for Group Creation of Plays With Young People
Drama
and Performance : An Anthology
Students learn best by doing" is the essence of this lively textbook of creative activities. Ten chapters suitable for a full year's course in speech communication. Involvement is essential, but these learning experiences are such great fun that students will want to participate. Sample activities include rap, pantomime, charades, a game show, Readers Theatre, TV news, a mock trial, talk show improvisation, and dozens more, including a "grab bag" of extra activities. Assignment instructions and the sign-up sheet may be reproduced. Cartoon illustrations throughout.
 Actors
on Acting : The Theories, Techniques, and Practices of the World's Great
Actors, Told in Their Own Words
Toby Cole(Editor), et al Redesigned with a contemporary new cover, this is a comprehensive consideration of all aspects of the actor's art and craft, as told by the theater's greatest practitioners, from ancient Greece to the 20th century.
Directors
on Directing : A Source Book to the Modern Theater
Playwrights
on Playwriting : The Meaning and Making of Modern Drama from Ibsen to Ionesco
A well-regarded text that clearly guides the novice, r developing professional through the rigours of directing. Some very clear and lucid discussion on acting as well as the the directorial process. A definite good buy for anyone looking to extend their understanding of the creation of theatre.
The first step forward in working with today's youth is to create a dialogue, and that is exactly what this exciting new book does. It helps you provide opportunities for young people to open up and explore their feelings through theatre, offering a safe place for them to air their views with dignity, respect, and freedom. The purpose of this manual is to provide a clear look at the process and specifics involved in the Hope Is Vital interactive theatre techniques. The organization is sequential, providing a blueprint for creating a workable plan. Beginning with warm-up exercises and bridging activities, the process moves forward to improvisational scenework, where students actually replace characters in the stories. It is at this point that young people engage in their own mini-theatre and look at choices, strategies, and communication. MOVEMENT 
Creative Drama and Music Methods : Introductory Activities for Children by Margaret Merrion, Janet E. Rubina An interesting book focussing on methods of teaching creative movement and music. Well described and useful activities.
Acting
and Stage Movements : A Complete Handbook for Amateurs and Professionals
The
Articulate Body : The Physical Training of the Actor
Laban
for Actors and Dancers : Putting Laban's Movement Theory into Practice
: A Step-By-Step Guide
"The actor will do, in public, what is considered impossible." When the renowned Polish director Jerzy Grotowski began his 1967 American workshop with these words, his students were stunned. But within four weeks they themselves had experienced the "impossible." In An Acrobat of the Heart, teacher-director-playwright Stephen Wangh reveals how Jerzy Grotowski's physical exercises can open a pathway to the actor's inner creativity. Drawing on Grotowski's insights and on the work of Stanislavski, Uta Hagen, and others, Wangh bridges the gap between rigorous physical training and practical scene and character technique. Wangh's students give candid descriptions of their struggles and breakthroughs, demonstrating how to transform these remarkable lessons into a personal journey of artistic growth. Courageous and compelling, An Acrobat of the Heart is an invaluable resource for actors, directors, and teachers alike. |
Action
Speaks Louder : A Handbook of Structured Group Techniques
