amateur theater

In a bungled attempt to kidnap an ambassador's son, four revolutionaries make hostages of a hundred children rehearsing an opera.

Presents an introduction to theater and drama discussing drama interpretation, stage language, improvisation, pantomime and mime, voice and diction, and acting; and features scenes and monologues for men and women.

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.

Contains lessons and activities on various aspects of theater for students, covering puppetry, playwriting, makeup, monologues, storytelling, set design, and the theater business; and includes a semester project, as well as short essays on theater ethics, etiquette, history, safety, and superstition.

Seventeen-year-old Edward Zanni teams up with his misfit friends to help him steal tuition money from his father when he refuses to fund Edward's acting studies at Juilliard.

Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.