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Teacher's guide to Everything about Theatre.

Concise, intelligent, and very funny! These professional-level satirical dialogs are an actor's delight. The characters are exaggerated, talking cartoons. Each short skit gets big laughs because the dialog bites, stabs, and tickles with wit and insight. Sacred cows are skinned alive. Simple staging and costumes. Excellent for drama competitions. Choose from fifty comedy duets. They arranged for two men, two women, one man, and one woman or optional men or women-more of the best from a top comedy writer.

These short scripts include teen topics and the honest feelings of teenagers--their joys and problems. The topics include the environment, dieting, babysitting, self-image, drunk driving, teenage sex, and more--all treated with humor, warmth, and realism. Many roles may be played by either male or female performers and may be staged without unique sets, props, or costumes. This material is ideal for speech and drama classrooms, variety shows, and forensic competitions.(240 pages, 5¿ x 8¿, paperback)

Tom Isbell wants you to know that this is definitely not a 'how-to' book on acting. In fact, he abhors how-to books for the arts. Still, this book is meant to improve your acting skills by developing your awareness as an actor-awareness both of yourself and those around you. By understanding what is worth pursuing, what is worth remembering, and what is worth letting go of, you can acquire knowledge about acting which will increase your skill level. This book is a series of 100 plain-speaking, highly readable lessons that convey the big and little truths of acting. Divided into 5 sections-Approach, Fundamentals, Classes and Rehearsals, Performance, and Final Lessons-Isbell presents this as a true acting book that focuses on allowing the natural artist to evolve, grow and mature, finding his or her own voice. If you're new to acting, these 100 lessons should provide a foundation on which you can build your acting life. If you've been acting for a while, these lessons should confirm what you already know deep within you but perhaps haven't yet voiced.

This latest volume in a series of short play anthologies compiled by Deb and Norman Bert provides roles for almost any mix of students in an acting class. The plays in this drama book range in mood from serious and heavy to satiric comedy and farce. The heart of the book includes 15 scripts for two actors and five scripts for three actors. All the plays are eight to 15 minutes long and offer balanced roles with no walk-on parts. The playwrights are icons of the American avant-garde, writers who have contributed much to regional theatre over recent years. An excellent resource for classrooms and festival competition use, five monologues plus an extensive chapter about rehearsing add value to this book. A bibliography and guidelines on securing the rights to these scripts are also included.

Everyone in theatre associates Stanislavsky's name with character preparation, but few realize that he never wrote down the final formulation of his 'system.' In a final effort to pass on his ideas in the last years of his life, Stanislavsky gathered a small group of students and put them through an intensive training course. He thereby created a living tradition which has been handed down, generation by generation, from master to student. Igor and Irina Levin are among the inheritors of that tradition. This theatre book summarizes these last concepts in an orderly fashion for teachers and serious theatre students. In six comprehensive chapters the authors reveal Stanislavsky's method to help actors transform themselves into believable and fascinating stage characters: The Development of the Stanislavsky System, Stage Action, Elements of Acting Technique, Structuring the Play, Work on a Monologue, and The Actor's Training. Each chapter is embellished with details and examples. Recommended for high school and college. Recommended for high school and college.

Now students are able to easily study a variety of Shakespeare's works and come to a more complete understanding of the world's most famous playwright. Only scenes with small casts are included in this drama book. Each scene is preceded by character descriptions and a plot synopsis so that actors will understand the setting and motivation of the characters. All scenes are between fifteen and twenty-five minutes in length. Ideal for classroom performance or for auditions and acting workshops. Features scenes from Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet.

Can a theatre class textbook be both inspirational and informative? Yes! This holistic book on directing and acting does it all. Students will keep it as a lifelong career reference on how to make things work. Written subjectively, it's based on nearly a half-century of teaching and directing. A theatre text that compels involvement in all layers of creating memorable theatre. Thirty-five chapters in seven sections with assignments and convenient section summaries make a complete semester course. This drama text is far more than "how-to"; it's a narrative about artistic discovery. Experientially it reveals how to jolt lagging imaginations into an ensemble of lively and involved performers. Adaptable for use by student directors and actors from secondary to graduate level. Recommended by leading theatre educators as the text they've been waiting for.

This companion piece, three-hole punched for carrying in a binder, includes 67 pages, including illustrations, for structured note-taking. In addition, a 24 page insert in the center of the book includes 23 crossword puzzles to correspond with the vocabulary introduced in each chapter. The textbook this workbook is for is intended to be the primary source of information for a semester-long Stagecraft course, introducing students to the production facilities, operations, methods, and techniques used in a school theater, and relating those practices to professional, amateur, and other educational theatres. Now in its third edition, William Lord developed this book through his years of experience teaching Stagecraft at a midwest high school. Twenty chapters detailing all of the fundamentals provide everything any aspiring stage technician needs to know to get started in backstage work. Major topics include: stages and rigging, production staff, properties, sound, lumber and tools, scenery construction, lighting instruments, control of light and color, and electricity and devices. Every section includes photographs, illustrations, and diagrams to aid the learning process. In addition, each chapter ends with a bibliography as well as a list of vocabulary introduced in that chapter with the page number where it was first defined. Finally, fifteen different production forms "¬‚¬" from a box office report to a sound effects cue sheet "¬‚¬" make this highly comprehensive text even more valuable!

Any classroom teacher or group leader who wants to incorporate drama into an educational program will find this book concise and comprehensive. It tells the how, when, what, and why of theatre games for young performers. Not a textbook for performers, this book serves as a resource for drama teachers and coaches. All the basics of pantomime, improvisations, voice control, monologues, and dialogues are presented in game formats with exercises and worksheets for easy organization. Whether new to teaching drama or a seasoned professional, this book is for you!

This theatre text is not a typical shake-and-bake manual of quickie tips on how to have a good audition. No other book puts auditioning in the context of acting training. The nuts and bolts are all here, but this book will do much more. It will systematically develop audition and acting skills throughout the actor's study and career. This book is, first and foremost, an acting text. It shows auditioning as another acting performance, not a technical exercise or a desperate attempt to highlight every actor's skill or talent. It is a step-by-step guide for training young actors to audition well by developing acting skills. Includes more than sixty relevant acting exercises or "explorations," fourteen sample audition pieces from contemporary playwrights, and a wealth of other resource material-an all-encompassing audition text.

Written especially for those who coach tween and teenage actors, this delightfully fresh workbook tells you the how, when, what, and why of theatre games for young performers. Starter scenes allow first-time performers to ease onto the stage in baby steps. Spontaneity is encouraged along with etiquette and basic acting principles. The concepts of pantomime, improvisation, character development, voice, and body control are all presented in game formats with exercises. Nine chapters include: Before You Begin, Preparing, Starter Scenes, Exercises, Games, Improvisation, Pantomime, Non-Acting Theatre Games and Activities, and Developing Your Program, plus an Activities Index. Anyone working with young actors will find this theatre book exceptionally helpful, and you'll love that it's written by Suzi Zimmerman, author of the best-selling Introduction to Theatre Arts.

A rare collection of comedy sketches suitable for stage, television or film. Think: ants, fish and other unlikely creatures satirizing everything we consider normal and acceptable. Other spoofs in the collection parody many of the sacred icons of our everyday life. These super-funny sketches are short, incisive and certain to challenge any audience. Actors have the chance to perform as wildly different character-types in off-the-wall situations. A supernova of fun for classroom actors or for a repertory group of performers.

The success of Fifty Professional Scenes for Student Actors prompted us to offer a new theatre book of winning audition material - this time including monologs! The emphasis of these monologs and scenes is on believable characters, not caricatures. Designed for professional actors seeking roles in TV shows, commercials, and stage productions, it may also be used by student performers who wish to work at a professional level. Actors have been using these same scenes to win roles at New York, L.A., and Chicago TV and film studios. Students in acting classes have been using them to advance their acting experience. This book is divided into two categories of scenes: Comedy and Drama. Most scenes are generic, easily adaptable for use by male or female actors.