Drama Education & Drama Therapy Books

New and Published Books

1. Teaching Classroom Drama and Theatre

   Practical Projects for Secondary Schools, 2nd Edition

   By Martin Lewis, John Rainer

   This revised and updated edition of Teaching Classroom Drama and Theatre will be an essential text for anyone teaching drama in the modern classroom. It presents a model teachers can use to draw together different methodologies of drama and theatre studies, exemplified by a series of contemporary,...

   Published May 24th 2012 by Routledge
2. Dramatherapy with Children, Young People and Schools

   Enabling Creativity, Sociability, Communication and Learning

   Edited by Lauraine Leigh, Irvine Gersch, Ann Dix, Deborah Haythorne

   Dramatherapy with Children, Young People and Schools is the first book to specifically evaluate the unique value of dramatherapy in the educational environment. A variety of highly experienced dramatherapists, educational psychologists and childhood experts discuss the benefits to the children and...

   Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. Playwriting across the Curriculum

   By Caroline Jester, Claire Stoneman

   This book is a guide to introducing the craft of playwriting into the secondary English curriculum at key stage 3, using the TEEP (Teacher Effectiveness Enhancement Programme) framework. The authors also provide a particular focus on applying this versatile scheme of work to other areas of the...

   Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge
4. The Politics of American Actor Training

   Edited by Ellen Margolis, Lissa Tyler Renaud

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   The essays in this volume address the historical, social, colonial, and administrative contexts that determine today's U.S. actor training, as well as matters of identity politics, access, and marginalization as they emerge in classrooms and rehearsal halls. It considers persistent, questioning...

   Published June 5th 2011 by Routledge
5. Stanislavski in Practice

   Exercises for Students

   By Nick O'Brien

   Stanislavski in Practice is an unparalleled step-by-step guide to Stanislavski’s System. Author Nick O’Brien makes this cornerstone of acting accessible to teachers and students alike. This is an exercise book for students and a lesson planner for teachers on syllabi from Edexcel, WJEC and AQA to...

   Published September 6th 2010 by Routledge
6. Movement Training for the Modern Actor

   By Mark Evans

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   This book is the first critical analysis of the key principles and practices informing the movement training of actors in the modern era. Focusing on the cultural history of modern movement training for actors, Evans traces the development of the ‘neutral’ body as a significant area of practice...

   Published June 17th 2010 by Routledge
7. Understanding Disability Studies and Performance Studies

   Edited by Bruce Henderson, Noam Ostrander

   This collection brings together scholarship and creative writing that brings together two of the most innovative fields to emerge from critical and cultural studies in the past few decades: Disability studies and performance studies. It draws on writings about such media as live performance...

   Published February 25th 2010 by Routledge
8. Dramatherapy and Social Theatre

   Necessary Dialogues

   Edited by Sue Jennings

   Dramatherapy and Social Theatre: Necessary Dialogues considers the nature of drama, theatre and dramatherapy, examining how dramatherapy has evolved over the past decade and how the relationship between dramatherapy and social theatre has developed as a result. In this book Sue Jennings brings...

   Published June 21st 2009 by Routledge
9. Drama as Therapy Volume 1

   Theory, Practice and Research, 2nd Edition

   By Phil Jones

   This new edition of Drama as Therapy presents a coherent review of the practice and theory of Dramatherapy. With a unique combination of practical guidance, clinical examples and research vignettes this fully revised second edition considers developments in the field over the last decade and...

   Published August 8th 2007 by Routledge
10. A Boal Companion

    Dialogues on Theatre and Cultural Politics

    Edited by Jan Cohen-Cruz, Mady Schutzman

    This carefully constructed and thorough collection of theoretical engagements with Augusto Boal’s work is the first to look ’beyond Boal’ and critically assesses the Theatre of the Opressed (TO) movement in context. A Boal Companion looks at the cultural practices which inform TO and explore them...

    Published December 7th 2005 by Routledge