Acting Out: The Workbook, A Guide to the Development and Presentation of Issue-oriented, Audience-interactive, Improvisational Theatre

Mario Cossa, Sally S. Fleischmann Ember, Lauren Grover, Jennifer L. Hazelwood

ISBN 10: 1560325348 / ISBN 13: 9781560325345

Published by Brunner-Routledge, New York & London, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Acting Out: The Workbook, A Guide to the Development and Presentation of Issue-oriented, Audience-interactive, Improvisational Theatre
• Publisher: Brunner-Routledge, New York & London
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1560325348
• ISBN 13: 9781560325345
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This handbook offers a compilation of background information, techniques and scenarios based on the Acting Out programme that offers theatre skills/counselling for groups of adolescents, free of charge. AO teens become performers, creating issues-oriented, audience-interactive, improvizational scenes with a variety of audiences.; Written for leaders who are familiar with improvizational theatre and working with groups, Part 1 discusses the importance of leader training, experience and intention. Psychodrama, sociodrama and theatre scenework are explained in some detail, with references offered for those who wish to learn more about these areas before proceeding. Information about group selection criteria, procedures and techniques for using the scenarios complete this section.; Part Two offers a set of eight topics each with its own list of scenarios. Each scenario begins with information about characters, settings and situations, and offerrs acting notes as well as age- appropriaeteness. A list of resources appears at the beginning of each thematic set of scenarios.

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Mario Cossa, Sally S. Fleischmann Ember, Lauren Grover, Jennifer L. Hazelwood