| | | | THEATRE GAMES FOR YOUNG PERFORMERS | | | By: Maria C. Novelly | | | Synopsis | Table of Contents | | | | | | | Introduction | | | | | | CHAPTER ONE: Terms and Goals for Performers | | | Introduction; Stage Terms; Performance Goals . . . . . . . . . . . | 1 | | | | | CHAPTER TWO: Planning Your Program | | | Introduction; Time; Space; Materials; Group Work; | | | Scene Presentation (introduction scene 1, introduction scene 2); | | | The First Day (drama discussion exercise, first-day pantomime); | | | For the Classroom Teacher; For Scout, Recreational, and Church Activity Leaders; | | | Adapting Activities for Discussion and Learning . . . . . . . . . | 7 | | | | | CHAPTER THREE: Pantomime | | | Introduction; Basic Qualities of Good Pantomime; Basics of Pantomime Story Lines; Short-Short Pantomime Activities (simple actions, believable entrances, emotions, | | | walking through, join in, continuation dream, relaxation exercise, imaginative journey #1, imaginative journey #2, imaginative journey #3, imaginative journey #4, | | | living patterns and live machines); Pantomime Games (the selling game--or the 'Bulgarian Game', who began, duet mirror games, circle mirror); Rehearsed Pantomime Scenes (group mirror pantomime, group focus pantomime, fantastic duet pantomime!, in-a-vehicle group pantomime, be-a-group pantomime, be-an-animal group pantomime, be-a-household appliance group pantomime, solo pantomime, solo pantomime to music | 23 | | | | | CHAPTER FOUR: Voice | | | Introduction; Characteristics of a Good Stage Voice; Short-Short Voice Activities | | | (vocal warm-ups, color your words, color your nursery rhyme, greeting by number, | | | directed poetry reading); Rehearsed Voice Scenes (advice column scene #1, | | | Advice column scene #2, low-voice radio broadcast, interview scene, one word-three situations scene) | 61 | | | | | CHAPTER FIVE: Improvisation and Scene-Building | | | Introduction; Hints for Improv Performance; Hints for Scene-Building; | | | Short-Short Improvisations (add-on story, telling a story and acting it out, | | | chain sentence, join-in scene, continuation scene, freeze and go, group improvs with a given situation, group improvs-three characters, improvs from a given situation, | | | solo improv with objects, TMATTY-Tell Me About The Time You..., one situation-three way scene, three-items scene, If-I-Had-It-My-Way Scene, exposition scene, picture scene, living newspaper, ending scene, commercials for products that don't exist, | | | one situation-three attitudes scene, solo emotion scene, monologue, sample monologue script #1, sample monologue script #2) | 89 | | | | | Index to Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 139 |
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