Scenes for Acting and Directing (Players Press Performance Workshop)

Twenty-eight scenes, designed for actors, directors and teachers, offer a wide and varied range of material for developing, practicing and improving theatrical and communicational skills. The scenes are chose to focus on critical moments, important ideas, actions, or character revelations.

Introductions to each scene provide needed detail and general background for understanding the characters, plots and settings. Production notes, in the margins, have been written to stimulate the actor or student and to encourage directorial approaches for continuous action, emotion and interpretation. Each scene was carefully selected for maximum presentational quality and minimal props, sets or costumes.

An invaluable collection, offering those desirable, less familiar, select scenes of major American, British and World playwrights.

Before joining the faculty of California State University, San Francisco, Dr. Elkind taught drama at El Cerrito High School, El Cerrito, California. He had been President of the California Educational Theatre Association, Governor of the Secondary School Theatre Association, Director of the High School Drama Workshop at California State University, San Francisco, and Consultant to the Department of Education for California. Articles by Dr. Elkind have appeared in 'Dramatics,' 'The Speech Teacher,' 'The Secondary School Theatre' and the 'CTA Journal.' He is the coauthor of the 'Drama/Theatre Framework for California Public Schools.' He is the author of 'Scenes for Acting and Directing, Vol. 1, 2, and 3,' and the 'Improvisation, Theatre Games and Scene Handbook.'

In addition to his wide service in the California school system, Dr. Elkind was a professional director for theatre groups in the San Francisco Bay area. He also produced, directed, and moderated discussion and panel programs for local television and radio.