Drama Menu

Drama Menu
Author: Glyn Trefor-Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781848422858

Packed full of drama games, ideas and suggestions, Drama Menu is a unique new resource for drama teachers.

100 Plays to Save the World

100 Plays to Save the World
Author: Elizabeth Freestone
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2023-11-07
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1636702147

This book is a guide to One Hundred Plays addressing the most urgent and important issue of our time: the climate crisis 100 Plays to Save the World is a book to provoke as well as inspire—to start conversations, inform debate, challenge our thinking, and be a launchpad for future productions. Above all, it is a call to arms—to step up, think big, and unleash theatre’s power to imagine a better future into being. Each play is explored with an essay illuminating key themes in climate issues: Resources, Energy, Migration, Responsibility, Fightback, and Hope. 100 Plays to Save the World is an empowering resource for theatre directors, producers, teachers, youth leaders, and writers looking for plays that speak to our present moment.

The Audience Book of Theater Quotations: 3rd Edition

The Audience Book of Theater Quotations: 3rd Edition
Author: Louis Phillips
Publisher: World Audience Inc
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2017-03-10
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1544029667

Now in its 3nd edition, we've expanded this book's size by a third with more great quotes! The Audience Book of Theater Quotations is a lifelong labor of love by Professor Phillips. If you have anything to do with the theater, buy this book. "I've been fortunate to spend many an afternoon with author Louis Phillips, sharing his insightful appreciation of movies, plays and poetry. Luck has come your way! Here you have it: Theatre treasures from A to Z. You pick the time (lots or little) and let Louis be your tour guide into this wondrous chronicle. "The Audience Book of Theatre Quotations" commemorates recitals both malicious and hilarious. You won't be able to resist prolonged applause and a standing ovation!" --Richard D. Pepperman; Film editor, teacher, and author of The Eye is Quicker Film Editing: Making a Good Film Better; Setting Up Your Scenes: The Inner Workings of Great Films; Film School: How to Watch DVDs and Learn Everything About Filmmaking "There are so many great quotes, it is a fascinating read." --William E. Cooper, Reader Views "... this book will inspire the inner theatre lover in us all." --Vianna Renaud, TCM Reviews “You read through The Audience Book of Theatre Quotes and it's like taking a trip through theatre-time superimposed on your own personal life-in-the-theatre time. Quotes from the likes of Dorothy Parker, Laurence Olivier, David Mamet, Hume Cronyn, Robert Benchley, Ben Hecht, Basil Rathbone and hundreds of others, always intriguing, mostly funny, sometimes filled with almost scriptural vision/insight. A book to be read slowly, maybe a page a day, either when you first get up or before you go to bed, letting the wisdom/humor either seep through your whole day, or ease you through your dreams.” –-Hugh Fox, professor, author of numerous books, poet, critic, playwright

Paradise

Paradise
Author: Kae Tempest
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2021-08-05
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1529045274

‘Tempest has a gift for shattering and transcending convention.’ New York Times Philoctetes lives in a cave on a desolate island: the wartime hero is now a wounded outcast. Stranded for ten years, he sees a chance of escape when a young soldier appears with tales of Philoctetes’ past glories. But with hope comes suspicion – and, as an old enemy emerges, he is faced with an even greater temptation: revenge. Kae Tempest is now widely acknowledged as a revolutionary force in contemporary British poetry, music and drama; they continue to expand the range of their work with a new version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes in a bold new translation. Like Brand New Ancients before it, Paradise shows Tempest’s gift for lending the old tales an immediate contemporary relevance – and will find this timeless story a wide new audience.

Drama High

Drama High
Author: Michael Sokolove
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2014-10-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1594632804

The inspiration for the NBC TV series "Rise," starring Josh Radnor, Auli'i Cravalho, and Rosie Perez — the incredible and true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the lives of thousands of students and inspired a town. By the author of The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino. Why would the multimillionaire producer of Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and Miss Saigon take his limo from Manhattan to the struggling former steel town of Levittown, Pennsylvania, to see a high school production of Les Misérables? To see the show performed by the astoundingly successful theater company at Harry S Truman High School, run by its legendary director, Lou Volpe. Broadway turns to Truman High when trying out controversial shows such as Rent and Spring Awakening before they move on to high school theater programs across the nation. Volpe’s students from this blue-collar town go on to become Emmy-winning producers, entertainment executives, newscasters, and community-theater founders. Michael Sokolove, a Levittown native and former student of Volpe’s, chronicles the drama director’s last school years and follows a group of student actors as they work through riveting dramas both on and off the stage. This is a story of an economically depressed but proud town finding hope in a gifted teacher and the magic of theater.

China Doll

China Doll
Author: Joe Cosentino
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2016-05-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 150920752X

Jana Lane is back on Broadway in 1984—starring in a murder mystery. Life imitates art when members of the company are murdered. As Jana investigates, it’s clear she may be the next victim. Complicating matters is Jana’s uncontrollable infatuation with her leading man, gorgeous and muscular Off-Broadway actor Peter Stevens. Will Jana find the murderer before the curtain comes down on her?

No Drama, Just Theatre

No Drama, Just Theatre
Author: CreaShakthi
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2017-02-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1482888084

This book of plays has been written keeping in mind an age group of six and above. The children who will be reading this book will be able to apply quite easily the exercises and techniques that the book describes. Some will require facilitation by a trainer, of course, but many can be practiced at home as well. The book aims to be a guidebook for lessons in theatre and performance arts and is designed keeping in mind international syllabi for the same. The language used has been kept as simple as possible so as to help the children and teachers apply the techniques given. The activities and exercises described in the book range from techniques used by world-renowned theater artists to techniques that we ourselves devised in classrooms. The theme of the book, Folk Tales from Around the World, was chosen keeping in mind the fact that such plays would be best suited for children of that age. The plays included have been inspired by tales passed on from generation to generation in many lands across the seas.

Saving Hamlet

Saving Hamlet
Author: Molly Booth
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2016-11-04
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1484758587

A charming young adult contemporary novel with a little Shakespeare-infused time-travel adventure -- and plenty of drama! Emma Allen couldn't be more excited to start her sophomore year. Not only is she the assistant stage manager for the drama club's production of Hamlet, but her crush Brandon is directing, and she's rocking a new haircut that's sure to get his attention. But soon after school starts, everything goes haywire: Emma's promoted to stage manager with zero experience, her best friend Lulu stops talking to her, and Josh -- the adorable soccer boy who's cast as the lead -- turns out to be a disaster. One night after rehearsal, Emma distractedly falls through the stage's trap door . . . landing in the basement of the Globe Theater. It's London, 1601, and with her awesome new pixie cut, everyone thinks Emma's a boy -- even Will Shakespeare himself. With no clue how to get home, Emma gamely plays her role as backstage assistant to the original production of Hamlet, learning a thing or two about the theater, and meeting an incredibly hot actor named Alex who finds Emma as intriguing as she finds him. But once Emma starts traveling back and forth through time, things get really confusing. Which boy is the one for her? In which reality does she belong? Will Lulu ever forgive her? And can she possibly save two disastrous productions of Hamlet before time runs out?