The jumbo book of drama
By: Deborah Dunleavy ; illustrations by Jane Kurisu
Contributors: Kurisu, Jane, 1952-
Series: Kids Can Press jumbo book series
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781553370086
Subjects: Children's theater; Theater; Puppet theater; Dance; Study and teaching (Elementary); Acting; Théâtre; Étude et enseignement (Primaire); Canadian drama; Children's plays, Canadian (English); Drama in education; Théâtre en éducation; Pantomime
Description: With a kid friendly format, this book offers a concise introduction to performance and design elements of the theater. Suggests ways for young actors to use their dramatic talents in mime, clowning, dance, puppetry, and theatrical forms from readers' theater to Shakespearean tragedy, and offers sample scripts and advice on stagecraft. Includes information on drama, comedy and tragedy; clowning and puppetry; set design and costumes, and much more.
Notes: For ages 8 and up.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the stage; title: Make your move; title: Mime magic; title: Art of mime; title: World of mime; title: Getting started; title: Put on a face; title: White face; title: Ball games; title: Wall games; title: Moving day; title: Rope tricks; title: Mime stories; title: Investibots of the cosmos; title: Masked play; title: World of mask; title: Behind the mask; title: More mask work; title: Bus stop; title: Making masks; title: Stick masks; title: Lost ring; title: Owl and raven; title: Clowning around; title: Send in the clowns; title: Hattitude; title: Walking the walk; title: Get dressed; title: Find your face; title: Gimmicks and gags; title: Clowns foolery; title: Clown scenes; title: Solo; title: Clown scenes; title: Partners; title: Dance drama; title: Jump for joy!; title: Music Maestro!; title: Musical movement; title: Find your space; title: Find your pace; title: Moving on!; title: Jungle journey; title: Shapes and patterns; title: Gadget kid; title: Outer space; title: Maypole; title: Metamorphosis; title: Sound advice; title: Puppets and Puppetry; title: World of puppetry; title: Stick puppets; title: Hand puppets; title: Rod puppets; title: Jointed puppets; title: Puppet theaters; title: Growing wings; title: Reader's theater; title: Reader's roots; title: Keep it simple; title: Hear ye! Hear ye!; title: Poetic practice; title: RT tip sheet 1: Reading; title: Words out loud; title: RT tip sheet 2: Scripting; title: Streetscape script; title: RT tip sheet 3: Staging; title: Bolt of lightning strikes the J. B. King; title: Story theater: Rabbit and the moon; title: Radio plays; title: Theater of the mind; title: Golden age of radio; title: Radio voices; title: How do you feel?; title: True story of Humpty Dumpty; title: Sound effects; title: Do-it-yourself haunted house; title: Wacky commercials; title: Merlin and King Arthur; title: Getting your act together; title: Melodrama; title: Pot-boilers and tear-jerkers; title: You must pay the rent!; title: You must eat your spinach!; title: Snapshots; title: Princess to the rescue!; title: Fractured fairy tale; title: Hot seat!; title: Melodramatic monologue; title: Thousand times no! - Comedy; title: Comedy old and new; title: Comedy high and low; title: Gobbledygook games; title: Knock, knock!; title: Comedy team; title: Act out a joke; title: Improvisation; title: Get into character; title: Foolish business; title: Wise people of Gotham; title: Tragedy; title: Very sad story; title: Believable characters; title: Life stories; title: Learning your lines; title: Making up a play; title: Shakespeare; title: Poor Macbeth!; title: Macbeth: Act IV, scene I; title: On with the show; title: Behind the scenes; title: It takes teamwork!; title: Stage; title: All the world's a stage!; title: Sets and scenery; title: Lights up; title: Props; title: Costumes; title: Front of house; title: Places everyone!