drama

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drama

Improvisation, theatre games and scene handbook

2002
Contains theatre games, scenes, and improvisations for classrooms or workshops designed to help the actor and director learn, explore, and develop working with various techniques.

Notable playwrights

2005
Presents volume one of a three-volume set that contains a biographical study from A to Gla of important playwrights that reflects the development of drama from ancient Greece and Rome to the American, European, Asian, and African writers of the twentieth century.

Masterplots II

drama series
2004
Presents plot summaries and critiques of 346 dramas written primarily in the twentieth century, arranged alphabetically by title, with publication and production histories, and sources for further study.

Best American plays, supplementary volume, 1918-1958

1961
Clarence--Rain--The adding machine-Green grow the lilacs--The house of Connelly--Children of darkness-Biography--On borrowed time--(etc.).

Black theater, U.S.A.; forty-five plays by Black Americans, 1847-1974

1974
An anthology of African-American drama with introductions and extensive bibliographies.

The art of the playwright

creating the magic of theatre
1987
Explains the craft and mechanics of writing plays.

Charlotte Shakespeare and Annie the Great

1989
After prodding her best friend Annie into trying out for the lead in the play she has written for their sixth grade class, Charlotte feels herself losing control of her own play and experiences jealousy when Annie suddenly gets all the attention.

Perfect or not, here I come

1986
Life may not be fair, but Tara, seeking justice, finds how to make the best of things.

Twenty ways to lose your best friend

1993
Emma loses her best friend when she votes for another girl to get the lead role in the class play.

General George at Yorktown

a story in play form
1975
A British drummer boy witnesses the last moments of the battle of Yorktown.

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