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Truth in Play: Drama Strategies for Building Meaningful Performances
Truth in Play: Drama Strategies for Building Meaningful Performances
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Author: Debbie Nyman, Jill Lloyd-Jones, and David S. Craig Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press Format: Softcover # of Pages: 208 Pub. Date: 2014 ISBN-10: 177091272X ISBN-13: 9781770912724
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About the Book:
Truth in Play: Drama
Strategies for Building Meaningful Performances
is written
specifically for secondary school teachers and teachers in training,
and can also be used by students. It features offers a
great selection of 16 short scenes; each one complete with learning
activities and teaching strategies and workshop ideas.
Truth in Play is specially
written to engage students with three thematic sections:
• Truth in Heart,
• Truth in Adversity and
•
Truth in Justice
It offers great opportunities
for small group work-each group could be given a different script and
have different performance focuses. The scenes allow students to
explore how to create a meaningful performance on stage. The teaching
ideas which accompany each scene offer a wealth of workshop rehearsal
strategies incorporating aspects such as tableau, text play, writing
in role, hot seating, soundscape, the space between, thought
tracking, writing in role etc. Each scene also contains notes for
would-be directors to help them connect with the scene and develop an
understanding of the main themes and issues within the extract.
There's also a useful section at the back of the book called
'Monologue Map' which provides a range of strategies and ideas to
apply to any monologue to help create a meaningful performance –
this would even help students when creating journal/reflective ideas
about a performance.
This is a perfect book if you
are just starting to introduce the idea of how to create a
meaningful,
truthful performance either from a directorial or performance
perspective.
What people say:
"Concise
and clear... the extracts are varied and interesting."
— Teaching Drama, magazine for drama teachers, U.K
"Refreshing...
Each extract is economically contextualised and followed by ideas for
exploring the major themes of the piece and realising it on stage.
Some gutsy issues are delved into from first sexual encounters (both
straight and gay), homelessness, racialism, postapocalyptic survival,
mental illness and inter-generational cultural tensions. I
particularly liked the duologue from Offensive Fouls and the
relationship drawn between a young offender and his case worker in
Tough Case." — DRAMA, The National
Drama Magazine of Professional Practice, U.K.
About the Author:
Jill Lloyd-Jones has been a
drama teacher and instructional leader for many years at the Toronto
District School Board (TDSB). She has worked collaboratively with all
levels of educators to support innovation in the teaching of drama,
theatre and movement. Her major interest is in exploring areas of
social justice through drama and theatre, as she believes in the
power of drama and theatre to help students enhance their
understanding of themselves and others, and to connect more
authentically with their characters in performance. She has provided
ongoing support for teaching and learning not only for students and
teachers through the delivery of workshops, but through the writing
of curriculum and resource documents. Having relocated to the UK, she
is working as a freelance consultant.
Debbie Nyman is a drama
teacher and consultant for the Toronto District School Board. She has
been involved in the development of many curriculum documents at the
board and provincial level. She is also an instructor of the Dramatic
Arts Additional Qualifications Program at OISE/UT., Toronto. Debbie
has provided experienced and novice teachers with strategies to
enrich their classroom practices, and has shared her extensive drama
experience through hundreds of practical workshops for educators and
adolescents.
David
S. Craig is one of Canada's most prolific playwrights and
influential dramatists. He has served as an Artistic Director,
playwright, performer, director, and producer of plays for over
thirty-five years. He has written over thirty dramatic works that
have been produced across Canada, the United States and Europe,
including his hit comedy Having Hope at Home; the
internationally acclaimed Danny, King of the Basement, which
has been seen by more than half a million people in North America
alone.
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