Written specifically for GCSE students by academics in the field, the Methuen Drama GCSE Student Guides conveniently gather indispensable resources and tips for successful understanding and writing all in one place, preparing students to approach their exams with confidence. Key features include a critical commentary of the play with extensive, clearly labelled analyses on themes, characters and context. They take studying drama even further with sections on dramatic technique, critical reception, related works, fascinating behind-the-scenes interviews with playwrights, directors or actors, and a helpful glossary of dramatic terms. An English theatre classic, J. B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls is as much about today as it is about the 20th century. On a night in 1912, Inspector Goole's unexpected arrival at the Birling family's home turns a dinner party into a murder investigation with some shattering conclusions. Closely following the requirements of GCSE English Literature assessment objectives, these studies include expert advice on how to write about modern drama. With featured activities for group study and independent work, they are versatile and valuable to students and teachers alike.

Following on from the 50th anniversary of the birth of Theatre in Education in Britain in 2015, this is an essential and timely companion to the story of TIE. It contextualizes it within the political and educational landscape of the last fifty years and examines its legacy today. Through this, Roger Wooster offers insights into future possibilities and applications in the field of Applied Theatre, drama in schools and pedagogical theory. With examples and analysis of international developments in TIE, and a foreword by Philip Taylor (NYU, USA), the volume provides a wide-ranging account of past and current practice. Across its three sections the volume examines the origins, work and legacy of TIE, considering for the first time its practical details. Each section features an Afterword by a leading practitioner reflecting on the work (including Warwick Dobson, Chris Vine and Anthony Jackson), and chapters draw on case studies and interviews with key practitioners. Chapter summaries and a companion website further enhance the text as a valuable teaching resource for theatre educators.

Growing up in Australia, Liam Hemsworth's youth was focused more on surfing than acting. This entertaining biography describes Liam's rise to fame alongside his two older brothers who are also actors. In fact, Liam lost the leading role in the movie Thor to his big brother, Chris, in 2010. But Liam bounced back landing his first big role, alongside Miley Cyrus, in the movie The Last Song. Now with a leading role in wildly successful The Hunger Games series, his fame just keeps continuing to grow.

Infantes de diez a os nos brindan una mirada a su pasado. Recuerdan sus aventuras. Aquellas que les hicieron ver el mundo de otra manera o les brindaron una lecci n. A oranza, 3 historias de 10 nos traslada, a trav s de los ojos de los ni os, hacia el mundo de la fantas a donde: brazos enormes quieren acariciar y grillos gigantes desean vengar a sus amigos que fueron fre dos; un tesoro espera ser descubierto para evitar que un padre deje a su hijo y ste tenga que cortar todos los lazos e ilusiones que la infancia brinda, o donde un camino llega a un lugar mejor donde nadie es afectado por las consecuencias de la obesidad. Ni os de diez a os se reencuentran en estas historias para brindarnos la oportunidad de reconocer nuestro propio ni o interno, para permitirle vivir en nuestra vida como personas adultas.

How Drama Activates Learning: Contemporary Research and Practice draws together leaders in drama education and applied theatre from across the globe, including authors from Europe, North America and Australasia. It explores how learning can be activated when drama pedagogies and philosophies are applied across diverse contexts and for varied purposes. The areas explored include: * history * literacy, oracy and listening * health and human relationships education * science * democracy, social justice and global citizenship education * bullying and conflict management * criticality * digital technologies * additional language learning Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives, the contributors present case studies of drama and applied theatre work in school and community settings, providing rich descriptions of practice accompanied by detailed analysis underpinned by the theoretical perspectives of key thinkers from both within and beyond the field of drama.

Winner - Maskew Miller Longman 2014 Literature Awards. Umdlalo wesimanje othi "Ngikuthand'ukhona lapho" udingida izindikimba ezisematheni njengokushushumbiswa kwezidakamizwa, ukudayisa ngomzimba nokubulawa kobhejane. Kulo mdlalo abalingiswa babhekene nenselelo yokuthatha izinqumo ezinzima zokukhetha phakathi kothando, ukwethembeka nobulungiswa emphakathini okhungethwe ubuphofu, ukuntuleka kwemisebenzi, ubugebengu, ukukhohlisa nobugovu.

A collection of twenty short scenes from six Shakespeare plays: "Macbeth," "Much Ado About Nothing," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "King Lear," "As You Like It," and "The Taming of the Shrew." Each scene is preceded by a plot synopsis and descriptions of the characters.

Les habitants d un petit village se voient en photo et se trouvent plutot... laids. Arrive alors Arsene Clou, un inventeur, qui, grace a sa machine, promet la beaute a tous ceux qui la veulent. Les villageois se precipitent dans la machine ou ils sont immediatement transformes, pour leur plus grande joie. Mais celle-ci est de courte duree. C est qu il y a un hic: la perfection n a que deux visages, un pour les hommes, l autre pour les femmes. Impossible des lors de se reconnaitre. Adaptee du roman de Raymond Plante, La machine a beaute a connu un immense succes aupres de son jeune public."

This brilliant new collection of ten plays for young people will prove indispensable to schools, colleges and youth theatre groups. Specially commissioned by the National Theatre for the Connections Festival 2011 involving 200 schools and youth theatre groups across the UK and Ireland, each play is accompanied by production notes and exercises.

"The Pied Piper" re-imagined, the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda, witches in seventeenth century Norfolk, a giant baby on the rampage, an extraordinary day in an ordinary school are just some of subjects covered in the thrilling and varied new plays created by talented writers for young actors to perform in National Theatre Connections 2011.

The plays in this anthology offer a huge variety of stories and styles to ignite the imagination of young casts and creative teams. Themes are both teenage and universal - ambition, dashed hopes, fear and confidence, loyalty and betrayal. These new plays embrace a huge range for their inspiration: they plunder classics and imagine the future.

Joe Penhall's screenplay for the film of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel provides a gripping and unforgettable text for use in English at Key Stage 4. The novel won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the the film starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron won praise for its faithful rendering of the novel's dystopian vision. This educational edition in Methuen Drama's Critical Scripts series has been prepared by national Drama in Secondary English experts Ruth Moore and Paul Bunyan. Building on a decade of highly effective work and publications endorsed by national organisations and supported by teachers and consultants across Britain, each book in the series: meets the new requirements at KS3 and GCSE (2010) features detailed, structured schemes of work utilising drama approaches to improve literary and language analysis places pupils' understanding of the learning process at the heart of the activities will help pupils to boost English GCSE success and develop high-level skills at KS3 will save teachers considerable time devising their own resources. The Road is set a few years after an unexplained cataclysmic world disaster has left the earth barren and hostile. It follows a father and son as they struggle to survive in a landscape where men either starve or join the marauding gangs of cannibals. Readers are advised that there are some scenes of a disturbing nature.

Quelque part en Asie, Maita, agee d a peine 12 ans, termine un contrat dans une fabrique de jouets. Apres quatre ans de dur labeur, au cours desquels elle a reussi a rembourser les dettes de sa famille, elle aspire de tout son c ur a retrouver son pere. Maita a herite de l art de son pere et envoute ses camarades en mettant en scene la marionnette Issane, princesse de la lumiere, qui ouvre les portes d un autre univers... Avec une justesse de ton qui ne se dement jamais, l auteure insuffle veracite et emotion a ce huis clos pour le moins inusite. Comediens, ombres chinoises et marionnettes se conjuguent pour accentuer la cruaute du drame ou propulser le spectateur dans les voiles du reve. Porte a la scene par le Theatre de la Vieille 17 en 2000, le premier texte de theatre pour la jeunesse d Esther Beauchemin a ete acclame au Canada et a l etranger. En 2002, -Maita- remportait le prix Christine Dimitriu Van Saanen au salon du livre de Toronto."

This is a guide to teaching drama effectively at KS1-3, along with advice for how it can be used for teaching and learning across the entire curriculum. Patrice Baldwin gives an overview of the way drama links to learning, teaching and the curriculum. It will help those who need to connect with the rationale for drama in and across the curriculum and who need to plan for it and explain it to others in terms of its necessity and impact. The book offers guidance that will facilitate schools' work on self-evaluation, preparing for Ofsted, drawing up school development plans and drama policies. With exemplar lessons for each of the year groups across KS1-KS3, this is a highly practical book that has something to offer all who work in or with primary and secondary schools.

Short, breezy, provocative -- these monologs are superb for acting exercises, speech and drama contests or for auditions. Each monolog characterization focuses on a topic of interest to middle graders or high school teens. The book is divided into three sections: Ladies..., And Gentlemen... and All Together Now! Within each section the monologs are paired to permit a presentation of a different opinion of the same topic. The two-minute length of most of these monologs makes memorization easy. Suitable for classroom or performance activities.

Every single artistic endeavor in Stanislavsky's life was achieved in close collaboration with female partners. First, it was his own mother, Elizaveta Alekseyeva, who shaped his personality, and encouraged his exploration of theatre. Then it was his artistic mother, Glikeria Fedotova, who guided him through the ten years of his work. Then Maria Lilina, his wife, who became his best student, and later one of the best actresses of the Art Theatre. It would be impossible to understand Stanislavsky's development as an actor and director without his work with Maria Andreyeva, the "femme fatale" of turn of the century Russian theatre, or Olga Knipper, whom he directed and acted with for forty years. And near the end of his life, when Stanislavsky introduced the method of physical action (metod phizicheskix deistvii), another woman embraced his work, a young actress named Irina Rozanova. Stanislavsky and Female Actors is the exploration of Stanislavsky's artistic and personal relationship with the leading actresses of the Moscow Art Theatre. It seeks to portray their life-long artistic dialogue and offers a new biographical study of the previously unknown spheres of Stanislavsky's life, as well as the lives of the Moscow Art Theatre's principal actresses.