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With an emphasis on believable characterizations, you'll love these short duet scenes for winning auditions and competitions. This theatre book is designed for serious actors seeking roles in professional stage productions, TV shows and commercials. Performed in theatres, classes and showcases, they include some of the most used original audition scenes for all the major networks. Divided fairly evenly between comedy and drama, these scenes fo...

The games and exercises in this book are designed to be used as warm-ups at the beginning of a theatre class. They have been used successfully with middle school students and they can easily be adapted for use with younger children, older teens and adults in various settings.

Throughout the ages, men and women have gone beyond what was only previously observed to discover scientific breakthroughs and create new inventions. The 21 short plays in this collection seek to humanize science by looking at these advances from the point of view of both famous and unknown men and women. They go as far back as the ancient world and continue into the modern age. This anthology explores various branches of science - from physic...

Renowned improvisation instructor and award-winning director Mick Napier has been at the heart of the professional improvisation community for over 25 years. The first edition of Improvise. quickly earned its position as necessary reading for improvisation students across the country and around the world and gave birth to a new generation of performers who questioned "The Rules" of improvisation. This expanded and revised edition provides addi...

Want to learn the improv techniques that helped Mike Myers, Chris Farley, John Belushi, and many others along the road to TV and film stardom? Then let two esteemed founders of long-form improvisational theatre, Del Close and Charna Halpern, teach you the "Harold." This groundbreaking acting exercise emphasizes pattern recognition and subversion of the audience's expectations, which are important factors for making people laugh without ever te...

Appropriate for both beginning and advanced courses in directing, this is the only theatre text that combines theory with active student participation. The 42 exercises detailed here provide both the instructor and the student a 'user-friendly' workshop structure. With the basic concepts of directing presented progressively, the approach is totally hands-on. The student discovers the demands and problems of directing by actually doing it step-...

Far from your typical text on speech education, this delightfully illustrated book encourages lively participation in each activity and focuses on the kinds of exercises that are fun for students of all ages. This full year course of creative assignments will aid preparation for any kind of speaking from formal, research-based presentations to casual retellings of personal experience. Sample activities include rap, pantomime, charades, a game ...

The purpose of a high school drama or theatre arts program is to introduce students to as many aspects of drama as possible, to allow them to experience for themselves the diversity and excitement of theatre and to encourage them to develop the love of theatre which is necessary for the successful production of a play at any level. So here it is, all in one book-a complete overview of all aspects of theatre! The history, the crafts and the art...

This collection of seventy-five acting exercises is designed to prepare actors and acting students for a professional career. The exercises were created during workshop sessions conducted by the authors with participants of the Paul G. Gleason Theatre in Hollywood. Over three hundred hours of recorded sessions were edited to pick the best exercises for developing acting skills. The book is divided into fifteen sections: Acting Is Not a Busines...

Designed to solve many monologue needs, this book is short length for audience use, contains monologues and dialogs for both sexes, scenes for all ages, play context lead-in for each scene and a bibliography of script sources.

A readable, workable text that deals with everything about theatre and the artists who make theatre possible. Styles of drama, staging, production, directing and acting, along with all backstage functions, are defined in detail. Theatre history and the business of theatre are covered fully for the use of both students and instructors. The book is divided into three sections: Part I - Theatre, Drama and Place, Part II - The Production, Part III...

A collection of short plays for speech and drama classrooms, forensic competitions, or variety shows. Includes scripts for girls, boys, and mixed casts.

The Teacher's Guide which includes suggestions for further reading, in-class discussion topics, and sample exam questions.

An in-depth study of mime technique. These international mime artists, trained in Paris by Marcel Marceau, have taught mime workshops around the world. This video and workbook program presents a comprehensive series of mime exercises for student practice and review. Each technique is explained step-by-step in the illustrated book and shown clearly and slowly on the videotape. Some techniques include: Body Positioning, Communicating With the Bo...

A resource book with over seventy games and lists for using improvisation games to teach drama skills. Classroom tested and proven to be intellectually stimulating and creatively successful.

16 scenes for two to six (or more) players 5 to 10 minutes in length Student actors will love playing a wide variety of characters: Comical monsters, Socially awkward robots, Powerful wizards, Courageous superheroes, Mad scientists, Charismatic talking dogs, Adventurous space explorers and many more! These hilarious scenes include spoofs of popular movies, television shows, and books, as well as original stories. A valuable resource for any gr...

The great French mime performer, Claude Kipnis, reveals the mechanisms and techniques of mime in an easy-to-understand translation. This theatre book is not a theoretical "art of" book, but a functional "how to" and "why to" instructional guide. Individual exercises are included together with detailed coverage of body movements, the illusion, and how to create a world. We know of no other book that so comprehensively explains how the functions...

Intense. Poignant. Moving. Powerful. The twenty short plays in this collection cover a broad spectrum of dramatic situations, including revenge, abuse, loneliness, homelessness, eating disorders, death, and relationships. With moods ranging from sentimental to hard-hitting and from heart-warming to heart-wrenching, the wide variety of topics provides ample opportunities for actors to explore stunning character arcs. These short plays, varying ...

This book invites the interaction of the whole class in the process of creating mystery plays.

Teachers nationwide have a great need for good, up-to-date writing on themes related to cultural diversity for literature classes, oral interpretation and forensics. Roger Ellis' original multicultural anthology of scenes and monologs has been in popular use for several years. Now, here's a unique anthology of complete plays from new writers of the multicultural experience. These plays have been gleaned from over 100 playscripts on the basis o...