The Arts / Junior
- Description
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- About the Author
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- Table of Contents
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- Features
The book in a nutshell.
Nelson Drama for Secondary Schools is a complete guide to acting for all Year 9
and 10 students of Drama in Australia. The vibrant and lively text will demonstrate
to students how they can excel, while revealing how rewarding and fun Drama is to
study. It takes students through important skill of building, performing and evaluation
and looks at the process for developing playbuilding from stimulus and various forms
of acting skills and styles. It introduces students to analysis techniques in approaching
a script or improvised performance and covers the rehearsal process from various view
points – that of an actor, a director, and an individual.
It covers all key theatre production skills and offers practical examples, like how to
combine these production skills to a finished, final performance. The text also analyses
the need for evaluation of performance and the skills required to evaluate successfully.