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This book will put fresh and fun, easy and age-appropriate skits at your fingertips! These 55 skits, most with casts of two to six players, are sure to fuel your young and middle school aged students' excitement about performing. The simple sketches present drama in a fun, non-threatening way and require very little planning or memorization. Written by a middle school teacher, these skits have been successfully used in classrooms and address many student needs such as building self-esteem, memorization, reading, speech, and elocution. The simplicity and versatility of these skits make it easy for you to use in any number of ways. Quickly grab an appropriate skit for your drama class, insert a few minutes of drama into your regular classroom just for fun, or launch interesting discussions about topical issues like gossip or respect. The introduction includes tips on how to cast and stage a skit, as well as how to adapt them for different age levels and even special needs students.

Body movement, gesture, voice, and interaction are all essential parts of this large selection of games and exercises. Within its twelve chapters are games for getting acquainted, over fifty games on how to warm up the actor's tools, and over sixty games and exercises for improvisation and public speaking. Also included are over forty monologues, poems for dramatic presentation, and more than ten plays and scenes. This total drama book tells about how to assess theatrical performances and covers all drama terms and the essentials of a career in theatre. Each unit can stand alone-enough resource material for several semesters of study-a must-resource book for every drama library.

When students arrive for a theatre class, they appreciate a game or exercise that will loosen them up and activate their right brain - the artistic side. A good warm-up allows class members to tune in to their creative natures and readies them for the adventures ahead. The games and exercises in this book are designed to be used as warm-ups at the beginning of a theatre class period. They are organized into sections focusing on one of 12 specific skills - cooperation, focus, improvisation, listening, stage movement, voice, and several more. The games were initially created for middle school students but can easily be adapted for use with younger children, older teens, and even adults. Each game involves most, if not all, of the students in a class, has simple easy-to-implement directions, offers a practical benefit, and, most important, is fun for your students.

Many middle school performers are uncomfortable taking the stage by themselves. Who can blame them? Acting solo can be very intimidating! That's why these ten-minute plays are perfect for younger actors... and they're royalty-free! Ranging from duos to groups of up to seven, the 18 plays in each book offer short, age-appropriate material and themes that reflect the interests and issues of teens today. With a variety of materials to choose from, some will make you laugh, others will make you cry, and some will do both! Don't worry about inappropriate language - these books were written with teachers and students in mind! These plays all stand-alone, and many parts are gender flexible, so whether you're just doing a staged reading without props or costumes or staging a complete production, you can make any of these plays work for you! Topics include: how to be popular, jealousy, shoplifting, pranks, and more.

Nineteen chapters detailing all the fundamentals of backstage work -- all the tools and the language which apply to any theatre operation. The book is loaded with photographs, illustrations and diagrams of the text material. The what, when and why of stagecraft. Selected for the Baker and Taylor Approval Program. A 76-page saddle-stitched book with all general answers and completed crossword puzzles. Includes an editable CD-rom with quizzes, tests, exam and student workbook information.

Featured are the best scenes from leading plays by the most famous contemporary playwrights. An exceptional collection that challenges actors of all ages and experience levels. The scenes offer a wide spectrum of performance styles for vocal and physical interpretation. Playwrights include: Beckett, Pinter, Mamet, Durang, Foote, Wasserstein, Vogel, McLure, Innaurato, Meyers, Shue, Medoff and Steve Martin, as well as "new voice" contemporary playwrights Bruce Graham, John Wooten, Ludmilla Bollow, Rich Orloff and Jack Heifner. Scenes are divided into several age groups. Each is preceded by performance hints and exercises. Also included are monologs for audition use. Designed to help beginning and experienced actors to expand their individual styles and techniques. An excellent sourcebook for teachers, students and professionals.

This rich collection of 68 scenes from 54 famous authors reflects more than 30 years of experience Joellen Bland has had skillfully adapting scenes from the classics. From Dickens to Bram Stoker, from Louisa May Alcott and Jane Austen to Henry David Thoreau and Robert Louis Stevenson, these scenes may be read for pleasure, used to enrich literature classes, acted out in performances or practiced for auditions and acting exercises. The broad selection includes 16 monologues, 20 duet scenes, 16 scenes for three and 18 scenes for four or more. The scenes are short five to ten minutes and is prefaced with a short description of the events preceding and surrounding the scene itself. Literature teachers especially will love bringing to life the characters and a scene from some of the world's most famous literature.

Written by the leading authority on portable stage sets, James Hull Miller. This book contains Miller's fifty years of experience in design, construction, and application of portable stage sets. Dozens of actual sets and instructions for how to build them are included. This stagecraft text also examines various types of theatres and other playing spaces encountered in traveling productions. There are chapters on folding and clamped sets, stagecraft in schools and recital halls, and small theatre designs. An indispensable resource for stage crews and theatre students. Now in its second, revised edition.

So well-liked was the first collection of these contemporary monologues that we offer this sequel by popular demand. The monologues are wildly funny, tragically sad and yet courageous. The ultimate journey for this collection is to create the possibility of living lovingly as equals in our modern world. The monologues are organised in chapter themes with brief sketches to set the scene. The collection features well-known playwrights - Arthur Miller, Wendy Wasserstein, August Wilson - and many superb, emerging new writers. There are several original monologues written especially for classroom discussion and exploration. Sample titles include: "The Last Yankee" by Arthur Miller, "Boy Meets Girl" by Wendy Wasserstein, "The Underpants" adapted by Steve Martin, "Romantic Fools2 by Rich Orloff, "Voices from September 11" by Lavonne Mueller, "Funnylogues for Women" by Mort Kaufman, Roger Karshner and Zelda Abel, "W.A.C. Iraq" by Mel Nieves and many more.

Whether you are a professional, volunteer or student prop master for a play production, this book reviews what a demanding theatre tech position this is. There is a lot more to propping a show than many theatre people realise. The twelve chapters of this book provide clear definitions of the job in action. They tell how to build a props department, how to create props and how to work with the technical crew, designers, supervisors and performers. Until now there has been no comprehensive manual or guidebook like this to lead a prop master through the entire process. No prop master should work without this guide as a ready reference to solve many unexpected problems. The book is divided into twelve chapters: What Are Props?; The Prop Master; Interacting with Other People; A Successful Work Environment; The Prop Shop; Collections and Files; The First Steps of the Building Process; Start "Propping"; Rehearsals and Performances; Safety; Timeless Tips and Techniques; Basic Theatre Terminology. Amy Mussman has over ten years of experience working as prop master for professional theatre companies.

A curriculum guide using improv games to teach basic drama skills. If used with ''Improv Ideas'' by the same authors, there are enough games and ideas to provide for over a year''s work. Select from over 134 games. It''s adaptable to all age groups -- from beginners to experts. The lessons are structured sequentially with emphasis on group building. It is deigned to teach holistically. Students are unaware they are being taught many new skills with every lesson. This curriculum is the culmination of many years of evolution and testing.

A thought-provoking new collection of monologues by best-selling author Peg Kehret! Each monologue creates a moment of recognition that makes both the performer and the audience smile -- and think! Most are structured to provide insights of discovery to reveal who we are and why. Every young actor performing one of these monologues will recount a memorable event that opened the way to maturity. But there''s more than just provocative thoughts in this collection -- many of the monologues can be performed for laughter alone. All monologues are easily adaptable for boys or girls. Sample titles include: ''I Need a Cell Phone'', ''Toto Tells the Truth about Oz'', ''The Day I Was a Dog'', ''Remembering Little Rock'', ''The Four-Part Plan for a New Me'', ''Taking the SAT'' and ''How to Be Proactive in Maths''.

An anthology of selected plays for young audiences,Second edition, revised. Many consider Max Bush to be the fountainhead of the renaissance in playwriting for young audiences. His sensitivity to current themes and the modern idiom infuses a contemporary appeal into all of his works. His poetic and muscular style of writing pushes aside "the sugary breakfast cereal" approach to children's theatre. His many uses of modern drama techniques serve to grab and hold the attention of young audiences. The ten full-length plays in this book are adaptations of classics, heroic fantasy adventures and drama dealing with social and psychological issues for youngsters. Plays include: Ghost of the River House; Hansel and Gretel, the Little Brother and the Little Sister; The Emerald Circle; Puss in Boots; 13 Bells of Boglewood; The Crystal; The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers; Rockway Cafe; Rapunzel; Voyage of the Dragonfly.