Drama 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. No Nudity, Weapons or Naked Flames

   Monologues for Drama Students

   By Donna Abela, Vanessa Bates, Hilary Bell, Noelle Janaczewska, Verity Laughton, Ned Manning, Catherine Zimdahl

   Every HSC drama student who undertakes ‘Performance’ must do an IP (Individual Performance) as part of their final exam. Playwrights’ company 7-On has created a collection of self-contained performance texts conceived with Higher School Certificate students in mind. The 21 monologues are...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
3. Drama at the Heart of the Secondary School

   Projects to Promote Authentic Learning

   By John Rainer, Martin Lewis

   Drama at the Heart of the Secondary School provides a rationale for the curricular centrality of drama together with rich and detailed examples of cross-phase thematic projects which are drama-led, but which promote learning across a wide range of curriculum areas, from the humanities and...

   Published March 13th 2012 by Routledge
4. Starting Drama Teaching

   3rd Edition

   By Mike Fleming

   Why teach drama? How can a newcomer teach drama successfully? How do we recognise quality in drama? Starting Drama Teaching is a comprehensive guide to the teaching of drama schools. It looks at the aims and purposes of drama and provides an insight into the theoretical perspectives that underpin...

   Published May 11th 2011 by Routledge
5. Cross-Curricular Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School… The Arts

   Drama, Visual Art, Music and Design

   By Martin Fautley, Jonathan Savage

   Series: Cross-Curricular Teaching and Learning in...

   The school curriculum is a contested arena. There are competing pressures from those who advocate that it should be constructed on a subject specific basis, whereas at the other end of the continuum is the stance taken by this book, that learning, and especially learning in the arts, can transcend...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
6. Young at Art

   Classroom Playbuilding in Practice

   By Christine Hatton, Sarah Lovesy

   Young at Art is a practical guide to playbuilding for teachers working with students at an upper primary and secondary level. Focusing on an area often neglected in traditional drama text books, the book covers the process of devising drama, and the teacher’s role in facilitating students to...

   Published October 2nd 2008 by Routledge
7. Beginning Drama 11–14

   2nd Edition

   By Jonothan Neelands

   This guide explores the roles, skills and knowledge needed to become an effective drama teacher. It combines practical advice on planning, teaching and assessing with the best teaching practices. It also offers lesson plans for years 7-9 students to use intheir teaching....

   Published February 29th 2004 by Routledge
8. The Drama Classroom

   Action, Reflection, Transformation

   By Philip Taylor

   How can teachers incorporate drama into the curriculum?What drama activities are especially successful?How do teachers know when students are learning in, through and about drama?Teachers who are new to drama, or those wishing to refresh their knowledge and ideas, should find practical answers and...

   Published September 6th 2000 by Routledge