Books with author John Ahart

Can a theatre class textbook be both inspirational and informative? Yes! This holistic book on directing and acting does it all. Students will keep it as a lifelong career reference on how to make things work. Written subjectively, it's based on nearly a half-century of teaching and directing. A text that compels involvement in all layers of creating memorable theatre. Thirty-five chapters in seven sections with assignments and convenient section summaries make a complete semester course. This text is far more than "how-to"; it's a narrative about artistic discovery. Experientially it reveals how to jolt lagging imaginations into an ensemble of lively and involved performers. Adaptable for use by student directors and actors from secondary to graduate level. Recommended by leading theatre educators as the text they've been waiting for.

Can a theatre class textbook be both inspirational and informative? Yes! This holistic book on directing and acting does it all. Students will keep it as a lifelong career reference on how to make things work. Written subjectively, it's based on nearly a half-century of teaching and directing. A theatre text that compels involvement in all layers of creating memorable theatre. Thirty-five chapters in seven sections with assignments and convenient section summaries make a complete semester course. This drama text is far more than "how-to"; it's a narrative about artistic discovery. Experientially it reveals how to jolt lagging imaginations into an ensemble of lively and involved performers. Adaptable for use by student directors and actors from secondary to graduate level. Recommended by leading theatre educators as the text they've been waiting for.

Three days he travelled, in a relentless line towards the mountains, never coming nearer, till late in the third afternoon the light changed as though after rain and the air grew transparent. His eager eyes could see snow on the summits and shoulders of the vast range, but what excited him most were the streaks of ice, huge glaciers, reaching down the valleys. Land of ice even in the summer time. Old Mother’s girlhood homeland. She who had drawn him a mammoth.It’s around 15,000–12,000 BC, the Late Stone Age, and an orphan boy is surviving on the fringes of a hunters’ camp. A passion to find mammoths has been ignited in him by Old Mother, the ancient crone who guards the camp fire and cares for him. In his travels to find the mammoths, he is adopted by a mysterious hunchback, Agaratz, who lives alone in a cave and is perhaps the last of a vanished people. Urrell learns survival and instinct as a stone-age hunter as well as gaining insight into the meaning of the cave paintings of deer, bison, mammoths and other creatures. The story culminates in a long journey to the Great Meet of the Clan Groups where rites de passage are held in caves, goods traded and mates secured. Time sometimes slips, and when the powers that Agaratz holds are transferred to Urrell, they will be a match for those of the leader of the rites, the horned shaman and his acolytes. But who will win? Mammoth Boy recreates the semi-magical world of the cave paintings seen through the mind of a boy growing into manhood. It was inspired by an archaelogical course in Spain and will appeal to young adults interested in archaeology and recreative pre-historical fiction.

It's around 15,000-12,000 BC, the Late Stone Age, and an orphan boy is surviving on the fringes of a hunters' camp. A passion to find mammoths has been ignited in him by Old Mother, the ancient crone who guards the camp fire and cares for him. In his travels to find the mammoths, he is adopted by a mysterious hunchback, Agaratz, who lives alone in a cave and is perhaps the last of a vanished people. Urrell learns survival and instinct as a stone-age hunter as well as gaining insight into the meaning of the cave paintings of deer, bison, mammoths and other creatures. The story culminates in a long journey to the Great Meet of the Clan Groups where rites de passage are held in caves, goods traded and mates secured. Time sometimes slips, and when the powers that Agaratz holds are transferred to Urrell, they will be a match for those of the leader of the rites, the horned shaman and his acolytes. But who will win? Mammoth Boy recreates the semi-magical world of the cave paintings seen through the mind of a boy growing into manhood. It was inspired by an archaelogical course in Spain and will appeal to young adults interested in archaeology and recreative pre-historical fiction.

Once, in a magical time where everything is possible two children lived by a wonderful Fountain from which the rainbow spray spread happiness throughout the world. An evil, but powerful Wizard plotted to steal the Fountain and to distort its magic so that instead of happiness it would spread misery and terror everywhere. The Fountain's magic could only be released by means of an enchanted spell known only to the children's parents. Because they refused to give this spell to the Wizard they were thrown into a dark prison within the Wizard's castle, and the terrible prison door was locked with seven magical locks. The keys were scattered over seven strange worlds..... "Let someone find these keys and open the locks", the Wizard raged, "Only then the prisoners will go free..." This story tells of the adventures of Charlotte and Jeremy as they search through the Seven Enchanted Worlds for the Seven Magic Keys which will free their parents from the Dungeons of the Great Wizard. Many of the worlds have been distorted and changed by the Wizard's evil magic, but, somehow before they set off the children receive some mysterious help - a magic mirror, a cloak of invisibility - and a strange cat who (sometimes) talks and sometimes does not, but always seems to know exactly what to do. They travel through their own Homeworld where they escape the Trolls, Witches and Ogres and also an enormous man-eating tree.....This is where they win the first key!Then IceWorld where the Ice Demons almost destroy Jeremy and there are no real children, only little snow-people. At the top of a beacon reaching far into the sky they gain the second key.Up in the clouds the World of Air is peopled by Rainbow Horses who are being destroyed by the Storm Sprites. They capture Jeremy who escapes by causing a terrible explosion of all the thunder and lightening spells. With the magic keys drawing them on from world to world, the children continue to meet evil enchantment, and dreadful creatures with magic powers at every twist and turn. They discover an empty factory, with robots ceaselessly doing meaningless tasks, whilst their masters - all children - are sleeping. The air is full of the Wizard's sleep-dust and it lays thick on the ground where Jeremy, Charlotte and Twitch walk. Near the Golden Castle they must escape from the Bone Suckers and thread their way through the great flesh-eating wheels....... Within the Golden Castle, the Mind-Stealing giant bats almost destroy Charlotte and the next key is given to the children by the Comet-Blazer...In the Underground World they are trapped by the Rock Growlers, they enter the land of the Giant Ants and Electric Bees....... Spidermaze, where the Devil Imps force the children to meet the huge SpiderKing. He knows of their search for the Seven Keys and does not intend that they should succeed. They are thrown into the miles and miles of the SpiderKing's maze - full of bones from those who had never been able to get though.... As they search for the last key they almost fail...... The final dangers are all there, worse than before as they find their way to the Wizard's castle. They must cross the murderous pathway; they must open each of the strange enchanted locks which are not real locks but magic creations; they must count the tolling of the bell...On every page the story tells of magic, danger and adventure...and how Jeremy, Charlotte and Twitch finally meet their Mother and Father again and find their way home..

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