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An edition of The jumbo book of drama (2004)

The jumbo book of drama

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With a kid friendly format, this book offers a concise introduction to performance and design elements of the theater. Suggests ways for young actors to use their dramatic talents in mime, clowning, dance, puppetry, and theatrical forms from readers' theater to Shakespearean tragedy, and offers sample scripts and advice on stagecraft. Includes information on drama, comedy and tragedy; clowning and puppetry; set design and costumes, and much more.

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Publisher
Kids Can Press
Language
English
Pages
208

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Table of Contents

Setting the stage
Make your move
Mime magic
Art of mime
World of mime
Getting started
Put on a face
White face
Ball games
Wall games
Moving day
Rope tricks
Mime stories
Investibots of the cosmos
Masked play
World of mask
Behind the mask
More mask work
Bus stop
Making masks
Stick masks
Lost ring
Owl and raven
Clowning around
Send in the clowns
Hattitude
Walking the walk
Get dressed
Find your face
Gimmicks and gags
Clowns foolery
Clown scenes
Solo
Clown scenes
Partners
Dance drama
Jump for joy!
Music Maestro!
Musical movement
Find your space
Find your pace
Moving on!
Jungle journey
Shapes and patterns
Gadget kid
Outer space
Maypole
Metamorphosis
Sound advice
Puppets and Puppetry
World of puppetry
Stick puppets
Hand puppets
Rod puppets
Jointed puppets
Puppet theaters
Growing wings
Reader's theater
Reader's roots
Keep it simple
Hear ye! Hear ye!
Poetic practice
RT tip sheet 1: Reading
Words out loud
RT tip sheet 2: Scripting
Streetscape script
RT tip sheet 3: Staging
Bolt of lightning strikes the J. B. King
Story theater: Rabbit and the moon
Radio plays
Theater of the mind
Golden age of radio
Radio voices
How do you feel?
True story of Humpty Dumpty
Sound effects
Do-it-yourself haunted house
Wacky commercials
Merlin and King Arthur
Getting your act together
Melodrama
Pot-boilers and tear-jerkers
You must pay the rent!
You must eat your spinach!
Snapshots
Princess to the rescue!
Fractured fairy tale
Hot seat!
Melodramatic monologue
Thousand times no! - Comedy
Comedy old and new
Comedy high and low
Gobbledygook games
Knock, knock!
Comedy team
Act out a joke
Improvisation
Get into character
Foolish business
Wise people of Gotham
Tragedy
Very sad story
Believable characters
Life stories
Learning your lines
Making up a play
Shakespeare
Poor Macbeth!
Macbeth: Act IV, scene I
On with the show
Behind the scenes
It takes teamwork!
Stage
All the world's a stage!
Sets and scenery
Lights up
Props
Costumes
Front of house
Places everyone!

Edition Notes

For ages 8 and up.

Includes index.

Published in
Toronto
Series
Kids Can Press jumbo book series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
372.66/044
Library of Congress
PN3155 .D84 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
208 p. :
Number of pages
208

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24747523M
ISBN 10
1553370082
ISBN 13
9781553370086
OCLC/WorldCat
52241179

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