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Author : Pamela Marx
Release : 2007-08
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 964/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Practical Plays by : Pamela Marx
Download or read book Practical Plays written by Pamela Marx. This book was released on 2007-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine Easy-to-Do Plays: Halloween, Thanksgiving, Winter Holidays, Valentine¿s Day, Community, Environment, Native American¿NEW, America¿NEW, History¿NEW
Author : Steve Ansell
Release : 2017-02-03
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 561/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis One Minute Plays by : Steve Ansell
Download or read book One Minute Plays written by Steve Ansell. This book was released on 2017-02-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you really write a play that lasts a minute? The one minute play offers a unique challenge to actors, directors and writers: how do you create a whole world, where actors have room to perform and where audiences have a true experience all in 60 seconds? One Minute Plays: A Practical Guide to Tiny Theatre demystifies the super-short-form play, demonstrating that this rich, accessible format offers great energy and variety not only to audiences but to everyone involved in its creation and performance. This handbook includes: An anthology of 200 one-minute plays selected from the annual Gone in 60 Seconds festival. A toolbox of exercises, methodologies and techniques for educators, practitioners and workshop leaders at all levels. Tips and advice on the demands of storytelling, inclusivity and creative challenges. Detailed practical information about creating your own minute festival, including play selection, running order, staging and marketing. Drawing on a wealth of experience, Steve Ansell and Rose Burnett Bonczek present an invaluable guide for anyone intrigued by the art of creating, producing and performing a one minute play.
Author : Matthew Sergi
Release : 2020-10-26
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 239/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Practical Cues and Social Spectacle in the Chester Plays by : Matthew Sergi
Download or read book Practical Cues and Social Spectacle in the Chester Plays written by Matthew Sergi. This book was released on 2020-10-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the crowded streets of Chester, guild players portraying biblical characters performed on colorful mobile stages hoping to draw the attention of fellow townspeople. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, these Chester plays employed flamboyant live performance to adapt biblical narratives. But the original format of these fascinating performances remains cloudy, as surviving records of these plays are sparse, and the manuscripts were only written down a generation after they stopped. Revealing a vibrant set of social practices encoded in the Chester plays, Matthew Sergi provides a new methodology for reading them and a transformative look at medieval English drama. Carefully combing through the plays, Sergi seeks out cues in the dialogues that reveal information about the original staging, design, and acting. These “practical cues,” as he calls them, have gone largely unnoticed by drama scholars, who have focused on the ideology and historical contexts of these plays, rather than the methods, mechanics, and structures of the actual performances. Drawing on his experience as an actor and director, he combines close readings of these texts with fragments of records, revealing a new way to understand how the Chester plays brought biblical narratives to spectators in the noisy streets. For Sergi, plays that once appeared only as dry religious dramas come to life as raucous participatory spectacles filled with humor, camp, and devotion.
Author : Toby Malone
Release : 2021-12-09
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 519/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cutting Plays for Performance by : Toby Malone
Download or read book Cutting Plays for Performance written by Toby Malone. This book was released on 2021-12-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cutting Plays for Performance offers a practical guide for cutting a wide variety of classical and modern plays. This essential text offers insight into the various reasons for cutting, methods to serve different purposes (time, audience, story), and suggests ways of communicating cuts to a production team. Dealing with every aspect of the editing process, it covers structural issues, such as plot beats, rhetorical concepts, and legal considerations, why and when to cut, how to cut with a particular goal in mind such as time constraints, audience and storytelling, and ways of communicating cuts to a production team. A set of practical worksheets to assist with the planning and execution of cuts, as well as step-by-step examples of the process from beginning to end in particular plays help to round out the full range of skills and techniques that are required when approaching this key theatre-making task. This is the first systematic guide for those who need to cut play texts. Directors, dramaturgs, and teachers at every level from students to seasoned professionals will find this an indispensable tool throughout their careers.
Author : James B. Nicola
Release : 2002
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 928/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Playing the Audience by : James B. Nicola
Download or read book Playing the Audience written by James B. Nicola. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). In this book divided into eight chapters, author James Nicola reveals how the technique of live acting springs directly from the unique relationship between the performer and the spectator. Playing the Audience includes advice on: creating a character from the stage from external gestures to inner dialogue; scoring the text; subtext; emotional memory; substitution; conflict; objectives; through-line of action; improvisation; blocking a scene; language and speech; connecting to the world of the play; and much more.
