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Drama teachers often thrive on shared experience and the imaginative exchange of ideas and perspectives. Yet books that provide such access are, strangely, hard to find. Teaching Drama 11-18 is an inspiring, comprehensive, and vibrant guide to effective and liberating practice in this subject.
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TEACHING DRAMA 11-18 Related titles: Martin Blocksidge (ed.): Teaching Literature 11-18 Sue Cowley: Starting Teaching Colin Durrant and Graham Welch: Making Sense of Music: Foundations for Music Education Duncan Grey: The Internet in School Richard Hickman (ed.): Art Education 11-18 J.G. Lloyd: How Exams Really Work Roy Prentice (ed.): Teaching Art and Design Teaching Drama 11-18 Edited by Helen Nicholson Continuum The Tower Building 11 York Road 80 Maiden Lane Suite 704 London SE1 7NX, UK New York, NY 10038 www.continuumbooks.com © 2000 Helen Nicholson and the contributors All rights reserved. No part of the publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. First published 2000 Reprinted 2003,2004,2007 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN-10:0-8264-4805-4 (paperback) ISBN-13: 978-0-8264-4805-7 (paperback) Typeset by Paston Prepress Ltd, Beccles, Suffolk Printed in Great Britain by Biddies Ltd, www.biddks.co.uk Contents The Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Dramatic Practices and Pedagogic Principles Helen Nicholson vii ix 1 Part One: Teaching Drama 11-14 1. Walking in Another Person's Shoes: Storytelling and Role-play Jennifer Simons 2. Physical Theatre Shane Irwin 3. Reading and Writing Plays in an Electronic Classroom Denise Margetts 4. 'You Mean I Have to Learn All This?': Performing Scripted Plays Bryony Williamson 13 16 Part Two: Teaching Drama 14-16 5. 'So Whose Idea was That, Then?': Devising Drama Andy Kempe 6. 'I See a Voice': Visual Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare Merrilyn Evans 26 37 51 61 64 77 1. Authoring our Identities: Dramatic Narratives that Write the Self Bruce Wooding 8. Reading Dramatic Texts in the Electronic Age: Modes of Response 101 Jane M. Gangi and Robert D. Taylor Part Three: Teaching Drama 16-18 9. Integrating Practice: The Practitioner and the Dramatic Text Melissa Jones 89 117 119 vi 10. Contents The Proof of the Pudding: Teaching Theatre Practitioners Steve Waters 11. Languages of the Stage: A Critical Framework for Analysing and Creating Performance Sharon Grady Conclusion: Changing Cultural Landscapes Helen Nicholson Bibliography Index 132 144 160 167 173 The Contributors Merrilyn Evans has taught students on literacy schemes, adults in continuing education and young people in secondary schools. Currently head of English and drama in a girls' school, where she regularly directs productions, Merry is keen to promote enjoyable encounters with Shakespeare. Following work with the Royal Shakespeare Company, she is researching into 'active' teaching methods. Jane M. Gangi is an assistant professor in the teacher education programme at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. Her research interests include responding to literature and drama in the context of a mass-media communication environment. Her published work includes a chapter in David Hornbrook's edited collection On the Subject of Drama. Sharon Grady is an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin (USA) and an Associate Fellow at T