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Acting Alone: A Drama Teacher's Monologue Survival Kit
Acting Alone: A Drama Teacher's Monologue Survival Kit
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Author: Demetra Hajidiacos Publisher: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing Inc. Format: Softcover # of Pages: 124 Pub. Date: 2006 ISBN-10: 1897289006 ISBN-13: 9781897289006
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About the Book:
Students trained to act alone are skilled at filling in the blanks
on stage. These students understand character development and are
able to apply their concepts to any role including those created in
the spur of the moment during an improvised scene. Above all, these
are students who own the stage they walk on, exuding confidence to
the rafters and beyond.
In reading Acting Alone, you — the drama teacher — will
acquire a whole new way of looking at monologues and their
multiplicity of uses in the classroom. You may choose to create a
small unit devoted to monologue work in order to prepare your
students for audition situations, or you may choose to use monologues
to teach units on character development, movement, voice, acting,
writing and directing.
You will learn to teach your students how to write their own
monologues and how to write monologues for your students. Or, use the
monologues written by the author — 100 are included! English,
History, and Drama teachers could use these ideas to create useful
units to explore fictional characters or historical figures. Students can take a character from a novel, play, or history
lesson and create a monologue that the character or historical figure
gets to recite. At the end of each chapter, a Survival Kit
gives a concise summary of the important points covered in that
chapter. While lesson planning, refer to the Drama Teacher's
Monologue Survival Kit for inspiration or make it your "to
do" list for the unit. So why not get started!
What people say:
"What sets Acting
Alone apart from other monologue resources is that it not
only allows students to create their own monologues, but it has an
entire chapter filled with monologues written by Hajidiacos. This
resource is packed full of useful tips for any classroom. An
excellent resource for grades 9-12, but it could also be used at the
middle years level. As monologues are excellent for confidence
building and oratorical skills, Acting Alone is
a must in any drama classroom. I would give this a 4-star rating and
a big 'thank you' to Hajidiacos for being inspired to create this
much-needed resource." — CM Magazine
"Hajidiacos finds ways to
trick students into giving honest, truthful performances by just
laying down rudimentary rules. If her ideas gain wide currency, it's
possible that high schools and universities across North America will
be presenting more powerful and honest performances than the
Manhattan Theatre Club, Steppenwolf Theatre Company and the Geffen
Playhouse combined." — American Theatre
About the Author:
Demetra Hajidiacos is a writer, director, actor and
educator. She holds a Bachelor of Education degree and an Honours
Theatre Directing Degree from the University of Winnipeg. She has
taught drama, improvisation, musical theatre, theatre arts and public
speaking in the public school system, and has taught acting classes
for teens and adults in the professional drama community of Manitoba.
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