1st Edition

Acting Out: The Workbook A Guide To The Development And Presentation Of Issue-Oriented, Audience- interactive, improvisational theatre

152 Pages
by Taylor & Francis

152 Pages
by Taylor & Francis

152 Pages
by Taylor & Francis

This handbook offers a compilation of background information, techniques and scenarios based on the Acting Out programme that offers theatre skills/counselling for groups of adolescents, free of charge. AO teens become performers, creating issues-oriented, audience-interactive, improvizational scenes with a variety of audiences.; Written for leaders who are familiar with improvizational theatre... Read more
Part 1 Basic Information; Chapter 1 Improvisation and Acting Out; Chapter 2 Limitations and Cautions; Chapter 3 Leader and Part icipant Information; Chapter 4 How to Use this Workbook; Part 2 Issue-Oriented Scenarios; Chapter 5 Drugs/Alcohol; Chapter 6 HIV and Other STDs; Chapter 7 Family Problems and Situations; Chapter 8 School Problems and Situations; Chapter 9 Community Problems and Situations; Chapter 10 Death/Suicide; Chapter 11 Violence/Abuse; Chapter 12 Sexuality/Pregnancy/RelationshipsPart 3 General References and Resources;

Biography

Mario Cossa, Sally S. Fleischmann Ember, Lauren Grover, Jennifer L. Hazelwood