Drama Works is your one-stop sourcebook for texts, theory, and activities. This colourful and visually engaging student resource offers current, accessible, and performance-ready approaches to the study of high school dramatic arts and encourages students to connect theoretical knowledge, play, and text excerpts with the tools needed to devise, adapt, and stage their own original works. Each chapter follows a three-part structure—Minds On, Action, and Consolidation—that mirrors the natural continuum of student skill development and allows for use in multiple grade levels. Extended screenplay excerpts have been carefully selected to help illustrate genre concepts and offer a range of classic and contemporary choices. - publisher's website
Getting Started: Creating an Ensemble
Chapter 1: An Actor's Tools
Chapter 2: Improvisation: It's All Imagination
Chapter 3: Creating Character
Chapter 4: Ritual, Myth, and the Emergence of Greek Theatre
Chapter 5: Commedia dell'Arte
Chapter 6: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
Chapter 7: Modern Drama Gets Real
Chapter 8: Theatre for Change
Chapter 9: Contemporary Canadian Voices
Chapter 10: Playwriting
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"This classic edition of Mike Fleming's The Art of Drama Teaching provides a multitude of practical ideas for teachers of drama and for those who are interested in using drama to teach other subjects. It takes the form of detailed discussion of twenty-five drama techniques including but not limited to: beginnings and endings monologue and narration off-stage action and reported action mime irony time shifts minor characters Each technique, topic or convention is illustrated by a carefully chosen extract from a play and accompanied by a commentary and practical examples of lesson tasks." publisher
Divided into two sections, the first part explores your own practice within a theoretical and historical context. The second offers a collection of comprehensive, practical schemes to inspire and support you and your students. Suitable for a range of ages and abilities.
'A wonderful book to help set up a drama group for those with learning difficulties, to help them express themselves through drama. It is a step by step guide to running a group from the basics of finding the setting right through to the final performance.
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