books about: playbuilding (shakespeare strategies developing)

books about: playbuilding

books:

Young at Art: Classroom Playbuilding in Practice (David Fulton Books)
Christine Hatton, Sarah Lovesy

Routledge, 2008

Young at Art is a practical guide to playbuilding for teachers working with students at an upper primary and secondary level. Focusing on an area often neglected in traditional drama text books, the book covers the process of devising drama, and the teacher?s role in facilitating students to collectively become playwrights, actors, designers, directors and critics of their ensemble work. The playbuilding process is covered in a structured ...

Playbuilding as Qualitative Research: The Collective Creation of Dramatic Representation (Developing ...

1 review
Joe Norris

Left Coast Press, Inc., 2009

Excellent Guide for Playbuilding as Qualitative Research
Devising and performing theatrical work are sometimes perceived by non-practitioners as mysterious and elusive processes. But Joe Norris's "Playbuilding as Qualitative Research" accessibly documents the empirically-grounded and socially-conscious productions of Canada's renowned Mirror Theatre for a broad readership in the communities of education, sociology, social work, human communication, ...

Playbuilding Shakespeare
Wendy Michaels

Cambridge University Press, 1997

Playbuilding Shakespeare is an Australian title. It is designed to allow students to explore aspects of five of Shakespeare's plays as performance pieces. The techniques used in the book draw on aspects of playbuilding. At the end of each unit, students should be able to present a version of Shakespeare's play from their own improvised work as well as drawing on the work of Shakespeare himself. Wendy Michaels is an experienced author, teacher ...

Strategies for Playbuilding
Will Weigler

Heinemann, 2001

Playbuilding: A Guide for Group Creation of Plays with Young People
Errol Bray

Heinemann, 1994

A guide for teachers, youth theatre workers and youth leaders offering detailed instructions on creating plays using one word or brief phrase lead-ins. Errol Bray was the founder and for nine years the Artistic Director, of Sydney's Shopfront Theatre for Young People.

Strategies for Playbuilding: Helping Groups Translate Issues into Theatre

2 reviews
Will Weigler

Heinemann Drama, 2001

Practical, yet inspiring!
"Strategies for Playbuilding: Helping Groups Translate Issues Into Theatre" is both inspiring and practical. Author Will Weigler brings more than twenty years of experience with urban and rural theatre companies to the development of this award-winning text, winner of the 2002 Distinguished Book Award of the American Alliance for Theatre and Education. The introduction's opening sentence neatly ...