Making Theater: Developing Plays with Young PeopleWith the passion and wisdom that have made him one of our leading educators, Herbert Kohl has written a wonderful book about how he has done theater with young people and how you can too. He tells how to explore improve, develop significant themes out of improve, use dialogue and monologue as starting points for students to write their own plays, develop full performance, and how to adapt plays and stories for performance. He also includes generous excerpts from plays and stories that are particularly good examples. |
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... audience , trying to see it . ] Oh , won't you appear ? I need you- desperately ! This is now the last hour of my life . Those about to die implore you ! What must I do to make you visible ? Raise you up in the flesh to be my last ...
... audience , trying to see it . ] Oh , won't you appear ? I need you- desperately ! This is now the last hour of my life . Those about to die implore you ! What must I do to make you visible ? Raise you up in the flesh to be my last ...
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... audience in on things the characters don't know . Example : The Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder's Our Town walks out onto an empty stage , places some tables and chairs , and begins telling the audience , in his omniscient way , all ...
... audience in on things the characters don't know . Example : The Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder's Our Town walks out onto an empty stage , places some tables and chairs , and begins telling the audience , in his omniscient way , all ...
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... audience and watch the action . I also encourage them to help me with blocking ( deciding on the positions and movements of actors ) and to make any suggestions for improving the performance . In addition , I act as a stand - in for the ...
... audience and watch the action . I also encourage them to help me with blocking ( deciding on the positions and movements of actors ) and to make any suggestions for improving the performance . In addition , I act as a stand - in for the ...
Contents
Preparing to Do Theater | 11 |
Developing a Performance | 31 |
Adapting Plays for Performance | 86 |
Copyright | |
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A.A. Milne actors adaptation Alice Please Stand ALICES and SUSIE Antigone audience begin Bloom brother CALLIOPE cast party character CHESHIRE CAT Chorus Creon dialogue DIONYSUS door dream emotion Example Excerpt father feel fight Four Alices friends Haemon Hamlet hands happen Harvey HELMER HERA improvisations Ismene JOCASTA join the dance Jon Rogers kids kill King laughing Lennie LINDA LITTLE GIRL look MAD HATTER Midsummer Night's Dream MIRANDA MOCK TURTLE monologue mother mouse Muses NARRATOR never Nilsson NORA Oedipus parents performance person Pippi play Polynices props Prospero QUEEN RABBITS real Alice rehearsal role Sande Zeig scene script Shakespeare Sister Susie sleep someone stage story swordfighting talk teachers tell theater Thebes themes there's thing Thunder-Karlsson TIRESIAS tramps turn Twinkle twinkle little voice walking WILLY WOLF Wonderland young Zeus