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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:
>five full-length, reproducible scripts
>warm-up acting exercises
>illustrated dance step instructions
>the mechanics of producing and directing a play
>information on creating your own costumes, sets and musical instruments
>methods for both formal and informal performances
>directions for writing your own script
>playful, dramatic illustrations that set the scene for each culture
>follow-up research questions on culture
>history and theatrical traditions
>and annotated bibliography.
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A teacher's guidebook of ideas introducing Readers Theatre to young students Includes step-by-step instructions on a variety of ways to use Readers Theatre in the classroom: Circle, Instant and Co-operative readings. Provides a springboard of ideas for storytelling, writing and creative drama. Allows teachers to build theme units for co-operative learning, special education and English as a second language..
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Although Wasserstein calls herself a humanist, her works reflect a political rhetoric, if cloaked in humor, that she herself could not imagine to be anything but feminist. Shaped by literal, cultural, and materialistic feminist theory, Wasserstein illustrates the impact of the women’s movement on the lives of her female characters. The five major works, with their near-sequel effect, let us see her characters’ college years, mid-twenties, mid-thirties and middle age. Through the use of a newly devised critical context called fem-en(act)ment, or textual or performance drama that is guided by feminist disposition thematically and stylistically, the author here allows for a fresh reading of the Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright..
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Dramatizing Classic Poetry is an ideal way to involve students in classic literature and to integrate dramatization with the study of poems as literature Written for teachers and recreational leaders with varying degrees of dramatic arts experience, tihs unique book contains:

More than 50 classic poems scripted to dramatize in the classroom and onstage.

Authors included are Shakespeare, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Edgar Allen Poe, Christina Rossetti, e. e. cummings, Lewis Carroll, Walt Whitman, and others.

Costume pieces and rhythm instrument suggestions to involve students completely in the poems and to make the poems fully alive.

Each poem includes Explanations of Poetic Devices and Topics for Critical Thinking, Writing, and Art for teachers to copy.

Many ways to dramatize poetry in the classroom and onstage including methods involving the whole class, in pairs, small groups, as traveling troupes, and with English Language Learners.

A Poetry Performance Script giving all students in a class of thirty-five significant roles by including storytellers, actor-reciters and a sound crew.

Louise Thistle teaches students of all ages how to dramatize literature. She also gives staff development training. She is an actress and the author of six books, including Dramatizing Mother Goose, and two award-winning plays..
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This book is an exploration and critique of 'playback theatre', a form of improvised theatre in which a company of performers spontaneously enact autobiographical stories told to them by members of the audience. With more than ten years' experience as an actor with Playback Theatre York, the author introduces the reader to the basics of playback theatre within a historical and theoretical context. The history and development of the form is traced, from its conception in the late 1970s to its subsequent growth worldwide, and its relationship to the psychodrama tradition from which it has evolved is discussed. Through an examination of playback performances from the perspectives of performers, 'tellers' of their stories and the audience, the author critically explores the nature, implications and ethics of the performers' response to the teller's experience, how notions of the public and personal are constructed, and the risks involved in improvising a response to a member of the audience's story. "Playing the Other" will be essential reading for drama students, dramatherapists and all those interested in the history and use of the theatre..
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Unlike traditional Readers Theatre, which is typically limited to literature-based scripts, Curriculum-Based Readers Theatre (CBRT) allows you and your students to create scripts based on any topic, any work of literature, any textbook, or almost any collection of facts. It can be easily incorporated into your existing curriculum, and because this method emphasizes spoken words and gestures, not staged action, no theatrical training or background is necessary.

Author Rosalind Flynn takes a clear and straightforward approach, and the following special features make this already practical resource even more accessible:

Reproducible sample scripts spanning a range of topics and content areas

Script templates to aid scriptwriting

CBRT in Action sections describing students and teachers firsthand experiences

Easy-to-use instructions on computer formatting scripts

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This work explains how to find and research ideas and develop them into viable stories, how to use dialogue to shape characters, and how to progress from a treatment to a saleable script..
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Early Modern England was obsessed with the 'turke'. Following the first Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1529 the printing presses brought endless prayer sheets, pamphlets and books concerning this 'infidel' threat before the public in the vernacular for the first time. As this body of knowledge increased, stimulated by a potent combination of domestic politics, further Ottoman incursions and trade, English notions of Islam and of the 'turke' became nuanced in a way that begins to question the rigid assumptions of traditional critical enquiry. New Turkes: Dramatizing Islam and the Ottomans in Early Modern England explores the ways in which print culture helped define and promulgate a European construction of 'Turkishness' that was nebulous and ever shifting. By placing in context the developing encounters between the Ottoman and Christian worlds, it shows how ongoing engagements reflected the nature of the 'Turke' in sixteenth century English literature. By offering readings of texts by artists, poets and playwrights - especially canonical figures like Kyd, Marlowe and Shakespeare - a bewildering variety of approaches to Islam and the 'turke' is revealed fundamentally questioning any dominant, defining narrative of 'otherness'. In so doing, this book demonstrates how continuing English encounters, both real and fictional, with Muslims complicated the notion of the 'Turke'. It also shows how the Anglo-Ottoman relationship - which was at its peak in the mid-1590s - was viewed with suspicion by Catholic Europe, particularly the apparent ritual and devotional similarities between England's reformed church and Islam. That the 'new turkes' were not Ottoman Muslims, but English Protestants, serves as a timely riposte to the decisive rhetoric of contemporary conflicts and modern scholarly assumption..
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Dramatizing Mother Goose is an ideal way to introduce and involve people of all ages in classic literature through drama. Written for teachers, parents, and recreational leaders with varying degrees of dramatic arts experience, this unique book contains:

Seventeen of the most beloved Mother Goose rhymes scripted to dramatize in the classroom and on stage.

An annotated bibliography of Mother Goose collections, scholarly books on Mother Goose, and books on costumes, music, and drama for the classroom.

Dramatize these great imaginative rhymes that poet Walter de la Mare has called "tiny gems of word craftsmanship.".
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