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Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > Acting techniques
A dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book in the Nick Hern
Books Drama Games series, this title is for teachers and workshop
leaders working with difficult or reluctant students, youth groups,
young offenders, and all those who seem intent on saying 'no' to
whatever is offered them. 'This book offers invaluable ways for
artists, teachers, workshop leaders and activists to better use the
arts to empower young people' Ken Livingstone, from his Foreword.
For these groups, drama games and activities need to be robust and
engaging, and the dozens that appear in this book have been devised
with this in mind - and then tested by their target players. Each
page features clear instructions on How to Play, notes on the
Benefits of the Game, and advice on age range, number of players
and timing. Following the ninety games and exercises aimed at
developing core skills, the book offers scenarios for a series of
improvisational challenges that test participants' abilities in
mediation, communication, negotiation, assertiveness and managing
emotions. Also included is a collection of games aimed at preparing
teachers and workshop leaders for facilitating challenging
sessions. The ultimate aim is to encourage reluctant participants
to engage, collaborate and develop not just skills for drama but
skills for life.
The first half of this book presents the fundamentals of Stephen
Mitchell's Action/ReAction technique for actors that is unique,
innovative and effective in developing a 'seasoned' actor in a very
short time. The second half of the book describes Stephen's history
in Hollywood encountering some of the greats in the film business,
including Marlon Brando and Steve McQueen, and producing
independent and innovative movies and TV shows that led to his
creation of Action/ReAction.
An Artist's Nightmare depicts the story of a professional theatre
artist's return to his roots after a quarter century of a
successful career in the big city. With his family in tow and a big
dream to help rejuvenate a lackluster old automobile town, he
forgot one thing: small town mentality. From the moment he opens
his performing arts center in this provincial capital city, the
theatre artist is dumbstruck by the mean-spirited rejection he
receives at every turn. Local academic theatre persons ridicule his
resume of real world experience, local directors dismiss his offers
to collaborate, and the local media ignore his shows and exclude
his work from local theatre awards while hypocritically treating
his work with an odd discrimination that never gets explained.
Fortunately he's good. And he survives the slim odds to succeed by
finding students and families that believe in his work. An Artist's
Nightmare is a thirty minute play-let that explores broad questions
about the arts and community through the eyes of two local small
town women; it is designed to provoke thought and ask larger
universal questions regarding how the arts are played out in a
provincial setting especially when mixing with the real world
experience of an artist who has been to the heights of professional
international experience.
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