Building Plays - Softcover

Tarlington, Carole; Michaels, Wendy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0435086898 ISBN 13: 9780435086893

Publisher: Heinemann Drama, 1995

Synopsis

See playbuilding at work as young actors negotiate, try out ideas, analyze, evaluate, modify plans, and practise. Building Plays offers effective techniques for using student ideas to encourage dialogue, create scripts, rehearse and present a complete play. Simple ideas for creating a play in a day are included, as well as suggestions for finding inspiration for playbuilding in topics as varied as song, television, and Shakespeare.
The book illustrates how "Canadian Stories," an award-winning play built around young immigrant experiences, evolved. Also featured is "G'Day Sport," an Australian play built by students as a term project.
Full of ready-to-use ideas, this practical handbook offers a theoretical framework for using playbuilding to promote learning in new and innovative ways.

About this title

About the Author:

Carole Tarlington is co-founder of the award-winning Vancouver Youth Theatre and runs Tarlington Talent, an agency that represents young stage, film, and television actors.

About this edition

• Publisher: Heinemann Drama
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0435086898
• ISBN 13: 9780435086893
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144