The Magic Of Drama

Author : Michael Sokolove
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594632804
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drama High written by Michael Sokolove and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for the NBC TV series "Rise," starring Josh Radnor, Auli'i Cravalho, and Rosie Perez — the incredible and true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the lives of thousands of students and inspired a town. By the author of The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino. Why would the multimillionaire producer of Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and Miss Saigon take his limo from Manhattan to the struggling former steel town of Levittown, Pennsylvania, to see a high school production of Les Misérables? To see the show performed by the astoundingly successful theater company at Harry S Truman High School, run by its legendary director, Lou Volpe. Broadway turns to Truman High when trying out controversial shows such as Rent and Spring Awakening before they move on to high school theater programs across the nation. Volpe’s students from this blue-collar town go on to become Emmy-winning producers, entertainment executives, newscasters, and community-theater founders. Michael Sokolove, a Levittown native and former student of Volpe’s, chronicles the drama director’s last school years and follows a group of student actors as they work through riveting dramas both on and off the stage. This is a story of an economically depressed but proud town finding hope in a gifted teacher and the magic of theater.

Author : Alexis Gerard Finger
Publisher : Full Blast Productions
ISBN 13 : 1895451345
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Magic of Drama written by Alexis Gerard Finger and published by Full Blast Productions. This book was released on 1999 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a complete drama course in one book. 'The Magic of Drama' is a reproducible integrated oral skills textbook. The book is intended to be used by high school and college ESL students at the high intermediate to advanced levels. As a main or supplementary text, it can be used in a variety of classes, including: speaking and listening; oral communication skills for international teaching assistants; public speaking, drama; film or literature; any class in which drama, film, or literature is used as a medium for learning. 'The Magic of Drama' uses movies, plays, songs, news, short stories, poetry, proverbs, props and pictures as resources for: activities, discussions, debates, interviews, impromptu speaking, improvisations, original dramas, video-taped performances, skills, fluency, thinking on your feet, clear pronunciation, vocabulary development, listening comprehension, grammatical accuracy and making presentations. Also includes a supplement which provides activities for a selection of plays and movies. The supplement includes activities for these plays, which have also been made into movies: The Heiress, The Best Man, Harvey, Inherit The Wind, Liliom/Carousel, Romeo and Juliet/West Side Story. The supplement also includes activities for these movies: Parenthood, 1776, South Pacific, Field of Dreams, Stanley and Iris and Mr. Holland's Opus. After engaging in the activities in this text, students are more confident and successful communicators who look forward to the next opportunity to converse, present and perform.

Author : James Buckley, Jr.
Publisher : Triumph Books (IL)
ISBN 13 : 9781572438293
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unhittable written by James Buckley, Jr. and published by Triumph Books (IL). This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history of the greatest performances by pitchers in the history of baseball including perfect games, near-misses, no-hitters, and the 20-strikeout games, highlighting such pitchers as Johnny Vander Meer, Nolan Ryan, and Roger Clemens.

Author : Anannya Dasgupta
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000417530
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magical Epistemologies written by Anannya Dasgupta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book began with a simple question: when readers such as us encounter the term magic or figures of magicians in early modern texts, dramatic or otherwise, how do we read them? In the twenty-first century we have recourse to an array of genres and vocabulary from magical realism to fantasy fiction that does not, however, work to read a historical figure like John Dee or a fictional one he inspired in Shakespeare's Prospero. Between longings to transcend human limitation and the actual work of producing, translating, and organizing knowledge, figures such as Dee invite us to re-examine our ways of reading magic only as metaphor. If not metaphor then what else? As we parse the term magic, it reveals a rich context of use that connects various aspects of social, cultural, religious, economic, legal and medical lives of the early moderns. Magic makes its presence felt not only as a forms of knowledge but in methods of knowing in the Renaissance. The arc of dramatists and texts that this book draws between Doctor Faustus, The Tempest, The Alchemist and Comus: A Masque at Ludlow Castle offers a sustained examination of the epistemologies of magic in the context of early modern knowledge formation. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Author : Brian George Woolland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317895967
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Teaching of Drama in the Primary School written by Brian George Woolland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of drama in primary school has been elevated in recent years, with many teachers continuing to make it high priority in their teaching. They recognise that it can enrich children's understanding of the world and motivate and encourage them in other curriculum work. This lively and readable book offers a blend of theory and practice based on the author's own considerable experience as a drama teacher. He provides numerous examples taken from work with children in schools, which will help teachers to prepare for drama sessions in the classroom. The book examines the role of drama as a subject in its own right as well as its role in delivering other aspects of the curriculum within primary education. It assumes no prior knowledge of teaching drama and will therefore be useful to trainee teachers and in-service teachers wanting to make use of drama in their daily teaching.

Author : Brian Woolland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131786350X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Primary Drama written by Brian Woolland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assuming no prior knowledge or experience of drama teaching, Brian Woolland’sTeaching Primary Drama offers a comprehensive introduction to the teaching of drama in the primary school, and focuses on current initiatives in primary education including the primary literacy strategy. The text is an invaluable resource for any teacher wishing to adopt a creative approach to teaching in their classroom. It offers guidance on different drama methods, and each practical idea translates to all areas of the curriculum. “[Teaching Primary Drama] is written in simple terms, uncluttered by references, is refreshingly straightforward and succinct and does not fall into the trap of making a complex subject sound complex; a trait of some texts which can push non-specialists away.”Amanda Kipling, London Drama Magazine, Summer 2010 issue.

Author : Laurence Klavan
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822207153
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Magic Act written by Laurence Klavan and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1989 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: As the play begins Mona Kale, an exuberant and good-natured sort, is in the dock, accused of murdering her lifelong friends Alan and Annabelle, two old high school sweethearts who were so deeply enamored of each other that, in their yout

Author : Elissa Hare
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315305895
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enchanted Shows written by Elissa Hare and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book, first published in 1988, examines the role of magic in Elizabethan and Shakespearean theatre. The author observes how certain plays, including Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest, rationalise the unrealism and improbabilities typical of romantic comedy as miracles wrought by specifically magical intervention. The author also explores the ways in which playwrights justify structural discontinuity by the working of magic. This title will be of interest to students of English Literature, Drama and Performance.

Author : Michael Mangan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350315915
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Drama, Theatre and Performance Companion written by Michael Mangan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This complete companion to the study of drama, theatre and performance studies is an essential reference point for students undertaking or preparing to undertake a course either at university or at drama school. Designed as a single reference resource, it introduces the main components of the subject, the key theories and thinkers, as well as vital study skills. Written by a highly regarded academic and practitioner with a wealth of expertise and experience in teaching, Mangan takes students from studio to stage, from lecture theatre to workshop, covering practice as well as theory and history. Reliable and comprehensive, this guide is invaluable throughout a degree or course at various levels. It is essential reading for undergraduate students of Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at universities, drama schools and conservatoires, as well as AS and A Level students studying Drama and Theatre who are considering studying the subject at degree level.

Author : Saundra Mathews-Deacon
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780871292308
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magic Theatre I Children's Musical Revue written by Saundra Mathews-Deacon and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1977-12 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: