Books published by publisher Meriwether Publishing,U.S.

The SECOND EDITION of everyone's favorite theatre arts curriculum book, Introduction to Theatre Arts, Volume 1, is now available! This new edition is gender neutral, better organized, updated to reflect modern technology and social media, and has a 2020 copyright date! The Teacher's Guide still includes every page from the Student Workbook, yet is better organized with the notes to the teacher now appearing alongside the corresponding student page. Four additional sections in the Teacher's Guide supplement the material with teaching tools, evaluation tools, production tools, and tests and major projects. Tests even include two levels of difficulty. Classroom-tested, the year-long curriculum covers the entire spectrum of theatre: theatre history, scene work, acting, characterization, publicity, play production, games and improvisations, and more. Energize your Theatre 1 class by engaging students in the idea of learning by doing.

Bringing creative drama activities into the classroom reaches across all disciplines, creating opportunities for hands-on, experiential learning. Middle school students especially have lots of energy and are learning to express their individuality. They need to try out new ideas, explore, and interact. The many exercises in this book can help any teacher, even one with no acting experience, create a safe zone in their classroom where students can take risks, make mistakes and learn from them, building both confidence and cooperation, as well as speaking and listening skills. Games are organized into several categories: Body Exercises, Voice Exercises, Getting to Know Each Other, Improvisation, Public Speaking, Poetry for Performance, and Plays and Scenes. A glossary of drama terms at the back of the book helps even the most beginning teacher add drama as a powerful tool to his or her bag of tricks.

Award-winning Peg Kehret has done it again! For years, teens have won everything from coveted roles to speech competitions with the help of Kehret’s original monologs. In her latest book, she again captures moments that any teen can relate to. The two to four minute monologs in this book portray life’s funny situations and its pathos, written as teens talk and think today. Each of these 50 monologs, almost all of which can be done by boys or girls, creates a “moment of recognition” that makes both the performer and the audience smile as they gain insight. Peg Kehret’s highly readable books for young people have won broad national acclaim, including the American Library Association award for “Best Books for Reluctant Readers” and many states’ Young Reader’s Awards.

This unique book of 100 monologues invites elementary school students to explore a wide range of emotions, developing empathy as well as acting skills. Divided into three sections, each part utilizes a different technique to help children learn more about feelings. Part I contains 20 monologues that each have two contrasting scenarios which alter the feel of the selection (e.g. You just learned your family is moving out of state. Are you excited or sad?). Part II has 30 pairs of monologues that present the same situation from different points of view (e.g. You're insulted that you and your younger sister have the same bedtime. Your sister is glad that the two of you are treated equally.). Part III includes 20 monologues that provide situations without identifying emotions in order to encourage discussion (e.g. Your mom finally made it to one of your baseball games, but you hit a foul ball through her windshield.). All the monologues in this exciting collection are between one and two minutes long, and a comprehensive list of emotions in the appendix will help kids better clarify their own feelings and empathize with others. Most of the selections are gender neutral, with the rest divided evenly between boys and girls. Elementary-aged students will enjoy the many pieces from their own perspective and will be challenged by others from an older or younger point of view. Not just for the young actor, this book can help any child build stronger relationships with their peers, parents, siblings, and teachers.

A collection of the world's best monologues for women actors featuring well-known playwrights and emerging new writers. These challenging character studies are suitable for competitive auditions, acting or literature classes, forensic contests and more. The selections are for actresses from thirteen to thirty years of age. Individual chapters are divided into thematic ages that introduce characters at a particular event or time in their lives. A valuable resource for any auditioning female actor or theatre student. Features monologues from: The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, Trojan Barbie by Christine Evans, Laughing Wild and Miss Witherspoon by Christopher Durang, The Mineola Twins by Paula Vogel, God in Bed by Glenn Alterman, Random Women and Enigma by Carolyn Carpenter, My Battle with Bulimia by Peter Langman, and many more.

Many students are limited to "learning" Shakespeare by studying only one of his many plays. Now you can help students come to a more complete understanding of the world's most famous playwright by exposing them to five of his most recognizable plays and the beauty of his language. This wonderful book contains fifteen cuttings from Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, Othello, and Hamlet. Each scene is preceded by thorough setting and character descriptions as well as a complete plot synopsis. All scenes have between two and seven characters and run between 15 and 25 minutes in length. This is the ideal book for a class that only has three to four weeks to study Shakespeare as well as for groups of students looking for performance materials, whether for contests, auditions, or acting workshops.

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.

This drama book of twenty-three scenes deals with challenging subject matter in five categories of subjects: 1. Dating, 2. Pregnancy, 3. Control, 4. Family, and 5. Growing Up. Because the characters are beyond stereotypes the student actors are required to reach beyond easy characterization. The scenes offer a wide variety of styles and an equal distribution of roles between men and women. They may be used as audition pieces, festival entries, or as discussion ignitors for interaction between the actors and the audience.