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Love, Death and the Prom

Literature & Fiction

Jory, Jon

Dramas & Plays

Dramatic Pub. Co.

Provides 205 tips for refining such acting skills as technique, textual study, transitions, role building, play-writing, and strategy.

Tips : Ideas for Actors

Humor & Entertainment

Smith & Kraus Pub Inc

Until very recently, directing wisdom was passed on in the form of "tips". Continuing this tradition, you will find them ranging from the way set a scene to directing the actor on the way to laugh. The tips are clear, concise, evocative, and constructed to give you a better day in rehearsal and performance. A buffet of ways to improve immediately that you'll refer to over and over again!

Tips: Ideas for Directors (Art of Theater Series)

Until very recently, directing wisdom was passed on in the form of "tips," Continuing this tradition, you will find these tips ranging from developing back-story to confusing flirting with sexual tension. The tips are clear, concise, evocative, and constructed to give you a better day in rehearsal and performance.

Tips II: More Ideas for Actors

Smith and Kraus

The Actor Craft is the delivery system for mind and heart. It deals with the tricks of the trade that have been passed from actor to actor for hundreds of years. The book breaks the subject into fifty categories with scripted exercises coaching tips for the teacher, and advice to the actor in training. It can lay out both beginning and advanced class work in the subject- all in an easily absorbed manner. Teachers of acting on every level will find this work useful because it can refresh and extend their ideas and classroom methods.

Teaching the Actor Craft

Intended for younger actors, Jon Jory has created a comprehensive book that addresses everything you need to know when auditioning for stage, film, television and even for training programs. Jory offers practical advice on how to fulfill those hopes and defuse their fears with his very clear Tips format that is concise and readable-including 75 new audition pieces with his own directorial insights.

Tips on Auditioning: Ideas for Actors

This collection of plays by Jon Jory, American theatre legend and founder of the Humana Festival of New Plays, focuses on work to be performed by high schools and colleges. Three plays (Halibut High, Highlife, and Superhero Town) may either be performed as full-length plays or separated into one-acts for competition purposes, each act its own separate short play. HALIBUT HIGH: Lives intersect, personalities clash, and the hopes and dreams of students are given voice in this look at what lies beyond the stereotypes of the kids at Halibut High. HIGHLIFE: Students bond over pajama parties, fast food, and sports as they prepare to take the big leap up to college. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST: A new adaptation of the Oscar Wilde classic comedy that expands opportunities for actresses. THE SECRETS OF WILDEST NEVERLAND: A hilariously irreverent look at the world of Peter Pan and the parts of Neverland nobody ever talks about. SHERLOCK HOLMES, SLEUTH, MEETS FATHER BROWN, DETECTIVE: Intuition meets deduction as Sherlock Holmes and the priestly amateur detective Father Brown team up to investigate the suspicious death of a prison guard. SUPERHERO TOWN: Take off their capes, and the mundane suburban lives of superheroes can be such a drag.

The School Collection: Six Plays for High Schools and Colleges

Steele Spring Stage Rights

Full-Length Script | Everyone has a story, most especially teenagers. Look beyond the stereotypes as lives intersect, personalities clash, and the hopes and dreams of students are given voice in Halibut High-a kaleidoscopic, slice-of-life look down the hallway and behind the gym of an All-American high school. (23F, 12M, 1F/M)Each act of Halibut High can stand separately and be played as a one-act.

Halibut High

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Secrets of Wildest Neverland

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