A Shakespearean Actor Prepares

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Adrian; York, Michael Brine

Performing Arts

Smith and Kraus

Complete plays from the 24th annual festival of new American plays.

Humana Festival 2000: The Complete Plays

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

This classroom tested resource presents the narrative mime approach. As students become personally involved with literature, they also learn to work together to develop confidence, and explore universality of their feelings. Carefully designed for all teachers, regardless of dramatic arts experience, this comprehensive guide contains: 
8 reproducible fables adapted for the classroom, plus 27 more fables with instructions 
Strategies for implementing principles of good acting: believing, control, and voice and movementCritical-thinking activities

Dramatizing Aesops Fables: Creative Scripts for the Elementary Classroom

Thistle, Louise

Ideal for teacher training and college education courses. This unique approach to theatre arts draws upon the richness and diversity of five cultures--West African, Mayan, Native American, Japanese, and British--to involve every student in dramatic performance. Uses the narrative mime approach with multicultural myths and tales in groups of up to 35 students. 
Features: &gt;five full-length, reproducible scripts &gt;warm-up acting exercises &gt;illustrated dance step instructions &gt;the mechanics of producing and directing a play &gt;information on creating your own costumes, sets and musical instruments &gt;methods for both formal and informal performances &gt;directions for writing your own script &gt;playful, dramatic illustrations that set the scene for each culture &gt;follow-up research questions on culture &gt;history and theatrical traditions &gt;and annotated bibliography

Dramatizing Myths and Tales Creating Plays for Large Groups: Grade 3 - High School

Louise Thistle

Humor & Entertainment

Because Alvarez's voice as a writer does not easily reflect (perhaps, in fact, it refracts) her identity as a woman and a Hispanic, and yet her name clearly identifies her as both, as a playwright she is often seen as neither Hispanic nor non-Hispanic, neither female nor non-female, and as such, she slips through the categories into unidentifiable ambiguity. This collection, therefore, is a valuable publication for its celebrates such ambiguity and problematizes the easy categorization of works of art. - Mary Resing, New England Theatre Journal, December 1999

Lynne Alvarez: Collected Plays, Vol. 1

Alvarez, Lynne

Felipe Santander is arguably the most important contemporary playwright to emerge from Mexico. The three plays chosen and translated for this collection are profoundly theatrical, immensely moving, and without par in portraying people and situations that are both quixotically Mexican and universally recognizable.

Felipe Santander: Three Plays (Great Translations Series)

Felipe Santander

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

Jory, Jon

Acts Of Courage

Carol Rocamora

Topics include: Stealing, being an orphan, alien attacks, sibling rivalry, looking different, lying, jealousy, foreign cultures, obeying rules vs. rebellion, being lost, boys vs. girls, snitching, peer pressure.

Ten-Minute Drama Plays for Kids 7-10/10+ Format Volume 5

Kristen Dabrowski

Teen & Young Adult

Topics include: Secrets, dares, revenge, physical handicaps, infidelity, survival, rich vs. poor, witnessing a crime, lying/disobeying, peer pressure, getting a reputation, growing apart from old friends, cruel jokes, puberty.

Ten-Minute Drama Plays for Middle School/10+ Format Volume 7

Dabrowski, Kristen

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