Author: Lawrence M. Clopper
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226110303
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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How was it possible for drama, especially biblical representations, to appear in the Christian West given the church's condemnation of the theatrum of the ancient world?In a book with radical implications for the study of medieval literature, Lawrence Clopper resolves this perplexing question. Drama, Play, and Game demonstrates that the theatrum repudiated by medieval clerics was not "theater" as we understand the term today. Clopper contends that critics have misrepresented Western stage history because they have assumed that theatrum designates a place where drama is performed. While theatrum was thought of as a site of spectacle during the Middle Ages, the term was more closely connected with immodest behavior and lurid forms of festive culture. Clerics were not opposed to liturgical representations in churches, but they strove ardently to suppress May games, ludi, festivals, and liturgical parodies. Medieval drama, then, stemmed from a more vernacular tradition than previously acknowledged-one developed by England's laity outside the boundaries of clerical rule.
Author: Glyn Trefor-Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781848422858
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Packed full of drama games, ideas and suggestions, Drama Menu is a unique new resource for drama teachers.
Author: Clive Barker
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408125196
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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A practical guide to using theatre games for actor training which includes a DVD with original footage of the author putting the techniques into action.
Author: Viola Spolin
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810140042
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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A collection of games and music to aid the drama teacher and give ideas for varied classes.
Author: David Farmer
Publisher: David Farmer
ISBN: 184753841X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 89
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Gain access to a personal collection of 101 highly effective drama games and activities suitable for children or adults. Sections include improvisation, mime, ice-breakers, group dynamics, rehearsal, story-telling, voice and warm-ups.
Author: David Farmer
Publisher: David Farmer
ISBN: 1479343021
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 137
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'...bubbles over with imaginative ideas... for primary, secondary and other drama teachers.' - Teaching Drama Magazine, Spring 2013. '..this book cheered me up. Buy it and smile. There will be a lot of laughter in your classroom.' - Drama Magazine, Spring 2013. This sequel to the best-selling 101 Drama Games and Activities contains all-new inspirational and engaging games and exercises suitable for children, young people and adults. The activities can be used in teaching drama lessons and workshops as well as during rehearsal and devising periods. The book includes lively and fun warm-up games, as well as activities to develop concentration, focus and team building. The drama strategies can be used as creative tools to explore themes and characters. There are dozens of ideas for developing improvisation (which can be extended over several sessions). There are many new activities for exploring storytelling skills as well as mime and movement.
Author: Jessica Swale
Publisher: Drama Games
ISBN: 9781848420106
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A hundred-and-one great drama games for everyone from 6 upwards. For teachers, workshop leaders and directors.
Author: Paul Rooyackers
Publisher: Hunter House
ISBN: 9780897932110
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Book Description
Drama games are not staged plays but a dynamic form in which children explore their minds and the world around them. They can use their play-acting in sensory games, pantomimes, story games with puppets, in creating masks and costumes, and much more. Drama games allow children to get more in touch with themselves and what they want to be, and are a delightful way to discover the freedom, creativity, and expression of acting- and living. The SmartFunActivity series encourage imagination, social interaction, and self-expression in children. To make the books easy to use, games are marked according to appropriate age levels, length of play time, and group size, using helpful icons. Most games are non-competitive and none require special skills or training. The series is widely used in homes, schools, daycare centers, clubs, and summer camp.
Author: Rod Martin
Publisher: Meriwether Publishing
ISBN: 9781566081665
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Book Description
Body movement, gesture, voice and interaction are all essential parts of this large selection of games and exercises. Within its twelve chapters are games for getting acquainted, over forty games on how to warm up the actor's tools, and over one hundred games and exercises for improvisation and public speaking. Also included are over seventy monologues and poems for dramatic presentation together with over ten plays and scenes. This total drama book tells about how to assess dramatic performances and covers all drama terms and the essentials about a career in theatre. Each unit can stand alone. Enough resource material for several semesters of study. A must resource book for every drama library.
Author: Gina Bloom
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472053817
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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Rich connections between gaming and theater stretch back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when England's first commercial theaters appeared right next door to gaming houses and blood-sport arenas. In the first book-length exploration of gaming in the early modern period, Gina Bloom shows that theaters succeeded in London's new entertainment marketplace largely because watching a play and playing a game were similar experiences. Audiences did not just see a play; they were encouraged to play the play, and knowledge of gaming helped them become better theatergoers. Examining dramas written for these theaters alongside evidence of analog games popular then and today, Bloom argues for games as theatrical media and theater as an interactive gaming technology. Gaming the Stage also introduces a new archive for game studies: scenes of onstage gaming, which appear at climactic moments in dramatic literature. Bloom reveals plays to be systems of information for theater spectators: games of withholding, divulging, speculating, and wagering on knowledge. Her book breaks new ground through examinations of plays such as The Tempest, Arden of Faversham, A Woman Killed with Kindness, and A Game at Chess; the histories of familiar games such as cards, backgammon, and chess; less familiar ones, like Game of the Goose; and even a mixed-reality theater videogame.
