drama

An illustrated, abridged version of the Shakespeare tragedy with background information and explanatory stage directions.

Identifies the characteristics of a play and gives guidelines, suggestions, and examples for choosing a story, developing ideas, making a first draft, adapting to practical considerations, and preparing the finished script.

An introduction to scripting and acting in a show. Describes ideas for scripts and offers acting games for improving performance.

Provides instructions for all aspects of putting on one's own play, covering writing scripts, designing sets, making costumes, and acting parts; and includes six plays and ideas for cast parties.

Includes sixteen classic and contemporary plays for use by young actors to help them enhance their acting skills in a variety of theatrical forms, including tragedy, comedy, musical, and melodrama.

Contains the scripts for five funny plays based on traditional fairy tales, featuring character roles written at a variety of reading levels, and includes related writing activities, book links, and graphic organizers.

Presents twenty-one lesson plans full of drama activities linked to poems and stories for students K-6.

A collection of four plays by French playwright Eug?ne Ionesco.

Guides readers through the process of writing a play, discussing how to come up with an idea, create characters, develop the story, make revisions, promote the play, and more.

Chronicles the history of theater in countries around the world from its origins into the early twenty-first century, highlighting the many different types of theater, and examining theater's component parts, including acting, theatrical space, playwriting, music, and others.