Theatre Books: Online Versions & Excerpts

A2 Drama and Theatre Studies: The Essential Introduction for Edexcelbuilds on the skills developed during the AS year to provide clear and informative guidance to Units 3 and 4 of the specification. The textbook provides further information on rehearsing, performing, directing and textual analysis, together with new material on deconstructing a script, devising theatre and preparing for the final examination."

The nature of practice and practitioner research / Phil Jones -- The social and political contexts of dramatherapy / Phil Jones -- The theory within the practice : dialogues with key theorists / Sue Jennings ... [et al.] -- The Narratives of Change project : dramatherapy and women in conflict with the law / Christine Novy -- Clinical effectiveness of dramatherapy in the recovery from severe neuro-trauma / Eileen Haste and Pat McKenna -- Expanding the frame : self-portrait photography in dramatherapy with a young adult living with cancer / Lindsay Chipman -- Dramatherapy with adolescents living with HIV : story making, drama and body mapping / Kirsten Meyer -- Dramatherapy and victim empathy : a workshop approach in a forensic setting / Emma Ramsden and Mario Guarnieri -- Dramatherapy, learning disabilities and acute mental health / Naomi Gardner-Hynd -- Mind the gap : facilitating transformative witnessing amongst audiences / Nisha Sajnani -- Embodying difference : to join or not to join the dance / Ditty Dokter -- Cinderella : the role fights back / Clare Powis -- "The river of my life : where things can break and things can mend" : Ruth's nine years' therapy programme at Family Futures and three sessions that stand out : an account by Ruth and her therapist / Jay Vaughan -- Saisir les étoiles : fostering a sense of belonging with child survivors of war / Athena Madan

"What can society learn about disability through the way it is portrayed in TV, films and plays? This insightful and accessible text explores and analyses the way disability is portrayed in drama, and how that portrayal may be interpreted by young audiences. Investigating how disabilities have been represented on stage in the past, this book discusses what may be inferred from plays which feature disabled characters through a variety of critical approaches. In addition to the theoretical analysis of disability in dramatic literature, the book includes two previously unpublished playscripts, both of which have been performed by secondary school aged students and which focus on issues of disability and its effects on others."

"A variety of highly experienced dramatherapists, educational psychologists and childhood experts discuss the benefits to the children and young people, and also in relation to the involvement of teachers, the multi-disciplinary team and families. This professional book offers a panoramic view to explain how through dramatherapy children and young people develop their communication skills, sociability and their actual desire to learn. Detailed case studies demonstrate individual successes in youngsters experiencing a range of emotional difficulties and psychological needs. These studies include: conquering a fear of maths; violent behaviour transformed into educational achievement; safe expression of feelings for a sexually abused child; and where children are diagnosed with mental health disorders such as ADHD and ODD, where the benefits of dramatherapy with children and families are carefully described and evaluated, suggesting that this therapeutic discipline can achieve positive outcomes."

Introduction. Chapter 1: What is Ensemble? Chapter 2: Anthropology of Ensemble Chapter 3: Leading Ensemble Chapter 4: Creating Ensemble Chapter 5: Archetypes Within Ensemble Chapter 6: Mending and Maintaining Ensemble Chapter 7: Ensemble Making: Specific Recipes. Conclusion

1. How does learning happen? -- 2. The via negativa -- 3. Questions and questioning -- 4. Listening -- 5. Feedback -- 6. Resistance -- 7. Transference -- 8. Cultures of oppression and resistance -- 9. Eros et charitas -- 10. The broken heart -- 11. No mistakes -- 12. Power and control -- 13. Silence -- 14. What are we really teaching?

"When Albert Hunt joined the staff of the Regional College of Art, Bradford, in 1965, he found himself working mostly with 'non-academic' students on a fascinating range of games, projects and theatre events outside the main stream of exam-oriented education. In this title, first published in 1976, Albert Hunt describes this experience, and explains how he himself evolved from a conventional grammar school teacher to a radical and experimental educator. In particular, Hunt describes the evolution of new working relationships between teachers and students, which in turn highlight an alternative way of viewing society."

pt. 1. Identifying theatre in education -- pt. 2. Ways of working -- pt. 3. Global perspectives -- pt. 4. TIE in the twenty-first century : issues and challenges

"This book is a guide to introducing the craft of playwriting into the secondary English curriculum at key stage 3, using the TEEP (Teacher Effectiveness Enhancement Programme) framework. The authors also provide a particular focus on applying this versatile scheme of work to other areas of the curriculum, including Citizenship and PSHE.Playwriting Across the Curriculum also contains schemes of work for: pupils with special educational needs (SEN); pupils with English as an additional language (EAL); adaptation to Adult Literacy Core Curriculum."

Part I 1: Stanislavsky & Politics: Active Analysis & the American Legacy of Soviet Oppression, Sharon Marie Carnicke 2: Actor Training Meets Historical Thinking, Jonathan Chambers 3: The Politics of Western Pedagogy in the Theatre of India, Chandradasan 4: Degrees of Choice, Leigh Woods 5: Training Artists or Consumers? Commentary on American Actor Training, Lissa Tyler Renaud 6: Changing Demographics: Where is Diversity in Theatre Programs in Higher Education & National Associations?, Donna B. Aronson 7: The Wild, Wild East: Report on the Politics of American Actor Training Overseas, Lissa Tyler Renaud Part II 8: Beyond Race & Gender: Reframing Diversity in Actor Training Programs, David Eulus Wiles 9: "Typed" for What?, Mary Cutler 10: "They accused me of bein’ a homosexual": Playing Kerry Cook in The Exonerated, Derek S. Mud 11: Identity Politics & the Training of Latino Actors, Micha Espinosa & Antonio Ocampo-Guzman 12: Keeping It Real Without Selling Out: Toward Confronting & Triumphing Over Racially Specific Barriers in American Acting Training, Venus Opal Reese 13: Disability & Access: A Manifesto for Actor Training, Victoria Ann Lewis 14: Arrested or Paralyzed? Reflections on the Erotic Life of an Acting Teacher, Ellen Margolis

"This revised & updated edition of Teaching Classroom Drama & Theatre will be an essential text for anyone teaching drama in the modern classroom. It presents a model teachers can use to draw together different methodologies of drama & theatre studies, exemplified by a series of contemporary, exciting practical units. Divided into eight units with each one offering photocopiable resources & exploring a different theme, this book has been updated to reflect current trends in drama teaching & important themes in contemporary society such as: Myths and urban folklore -- Moral decisions -- Asylum seekers -- The transition from primary to secondary school -- Conflict resolution & propaganda -- Protest & resistance -- Medieval plays -- Transportation -- Crime & punishment

"Theatre in Practice provides students with all of the 'must have' Drama skills required for A-Level, International Baccalaureate, BTEC and beyond. Practical, step-by-step exercises and diagrams give access to the key figures and processes central to drama, including: Stanislavski, Brecht, Lecoq and Berkoff devising theatre rehearsing and performing monologues and duologues how to approach directing a play improvising. Each chapter offers advice for both students and teachers, with notes and follow-on exercises ideal for individual study and practice."

"This text for prospective and practicing teachers introduces engaging, innovative pedagogy for putting active and dramatic approaches to learning and teaching into action. It features real examples of preschool, elementary, middle, and high school teachers working in actual classrooms in diverse settings."

"Providing a highly accessible combination of theory & practice, the contributors to this book: define their own approach to storytelling -- describe the principles & theory that underpin their practice -- demonstrate how they work with different types of story -- provide extensive case-studies & assessment frameworks for a range of different special needs & age ranges -- provide some top tips for practitioners who want to start using stories in this way"