
Structuring Drama Work
100 Key Conventions for Theatre and Drama
Cambridge University Press
3rd Edition
Published on 3. September 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
174 pages
978-1-107-53016-4 (ISBN)
Description
Structuring Drama Work is the only drama resource that explores 100 dramatic conventions and techniques and provides ideas for how to practise them. This book explains dramatic conventions and what they do, explores how dramatic techniques can be used, provides cultural connections and global contexts and includes examples of the techniques in the context of plays and texts. The compact size and simple format make this book convenient and easy to use. Suitable for IGCSE (R) students up to A Level, IB Diploma and beyond, this resource will give inspiration and ideas to students and save teachers valuable planning time by providing numerous examples in a global context.
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Series
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
College/higher education
Adult education
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: From Fourth Grade to Seventh Grade, Interest Age: From 14 to 17 years
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 172 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
317 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-53016-4 (9781107530164)
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Previous edition

Jonothan Neelands | Tony Goode
Structuring Drama Work
Book
06/2000
2nd Edition
Cambridge University Press
€28.79
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Content
Acknowledgements, Introduction, Part 1: A guide to dramatic conventions, Section A: Context-building action, Circle of life, Circular drama, Collective character, Collective drawing, Commission, Defining space, Diaries, letters, journals, messages, First impressions, Games, Guided tour, Making maps and diagrams, Objects of character, Role-on-the-wall, Simulations, Soundtracking, Still-image, Theory building, The iceberg, The ripple, Unfinished materials, Section B: Narrative action, A day in the life, Critical events, Everywoman, Good angel/bad angel, Gossip circle, Hot-seating, Interviews and interrogations, Mantle of the expert, Meetings, Noises off, Overheard conversations, Reportage, Spotlighting, Tag role, Teacher-in-role, Telephone or radio conversation, Timeline, Time will tell, Will they, won't they?, Section C: Poetic action, Action narration, Alter-ego, Analogy, Behind the scene, Caption-making, Ceremony, Chamber theatre, Come on down!, Commedia dell'arte, Cross-cutting, Ducumentary, Flashback, Folk-forms, Forum-theatre, Genre switch, Gestus, Living newspaper, Masks, Mimed activity, Montage, Physical theatre, Play within a play, Prepared roles, Reader's theatre, Re-enactment, Reminiscence Theatre, Revue, Ritual, Role reversal, Shape-shifting, Small-group play-making, Soundscape, TV times, Verbatim theatre, Section D: Reflective action, Are you moved? Builders of bridges, Character box, Choral speak, Empathy knots, Finger ballet, Gestalt, Gifting, Giving witness, Group sculpture, Harmony, If I were you..., Marking the moment, Moment of truth, Narration, Postbox, Power line, Space between, Spectrum of difference, Taking sides, This way/that way, Thought shower, Thought-tracking, Voices in the head, Wall of China, Walls have ears, Window on the world, Part 2: Structuring drama for learning opportunities, Part 3: Theatre as a learning process.