The Musical

Author: William Everett
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135848068
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
The musical, whether on stage or screen, is undoubtedly one of the most recognizable musical genres, yet one of the most perplexing. What are its defining features? How does it negotiate multiple socio-cultural-economic spaces? Is it a popular tradition? Is it a commercial enterprise? Is it a sophisticated cultural product and signifier? This research guide includes more than 1,400 annotated entries related to the genre as it appears on stage and screen. It includes reference works, monographs, articles, anthologies, and websites related to the musical. Separate sections are devoted to sub-genres (such as operetta and megamusical), non-English language musical genres in the U.S., traditions outside the U.S., individual shows, creators, performers, and performance. The second edition reflects the notable increase in musical theater scholarship since 2000. In addition to printed materials, it includes multimedia and electronic resources.

Pantomime

Author: Tina Bicât
Publisher: Crowood Press (UK)
ISBN: 9781861266927
Category : Amateur theater
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Pantomime: A Practical Guide is for those who find themselves involved in putting a pantomime on stage, and most particularly for those working on limited budgets in smaller venues. This excellent handbook tells you how to solve the particular problems of directing and choreographing pantomime; understand the tricks of set and costume transformations; control backstage chaos; solve the dilemmas of pantomime props; learn the secrets of pantomime magic; and create a spectacular effect with unspectacular resources. Tina Bicat s work has spanned national, regional, and fringe theater; among her previous books are Making Stage Costumes and Period Costumes for the Stage."

Stroke Clinician's Handbook, The: A Practical Guide To The Care Of Stroke Patients

Author: Robert Ngo Gan
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814472409
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Book Description
There are numerous elaborate and comprehensive textbooks and guidelines on stroke. However, busy clinicians are constantly bombarded with new knowledge for an infinite number of medical conditions. It becomes a challenge for them to tease out the important information that will help guide them through the care of the patient they have right before them.This handbook was thus conceptualized with both the busy clinician and the stroke patient needing urgent treatment in mind. By providing only essential information in a standard and user-friendly layout, it assists clinicians in making real-time decisions quickly and effectively with actual step-by-step guides on specific issues relevant to the care of stroke patients. The use of this practical handbook is instinctive with the topics arranged in chronological order, simulating the actual clinical scenario from a prehospital setting, consultation in the emergency room, admission to the hospital, to secondary prevention in the clinic. With contributions from over 30 stroke experts in Southeast Asia, this handbook is widely applicable in different medical settings and will certainly appeal to stroke specialists, general practitioners, nurses, paramedics, and medical students alike.

Make Your Show a Success: Teach Yourself

Author: Nicholas Gibbs
Publisher: Teach Yourself
ISBN: 1444132075
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
Wherever your theatre interests lies, this is an essential book for you. It covers a wide range of key issues, from tips on coping with first night nerves, to a full section on health and safety, to funding and taxation. Illustrated with handy guides to lighting and staging and containing essential resources, this book will enable you to have a successful show. NOT GOT MUCH TIME? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. AUTHOR INSIGHTS Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience. TEST YOURSELF Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress. EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of amateur theatre. FIVE THINGS TO REMEMBER Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts. TRY THIS Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.

Bringing the Body to the Stage and Screen

Author: Annette Lust
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810882124
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 365

Book Description
As stage and screen artists explore new means to enhance their craft, a new wave of interest in expressive movement and physical improvisation has developed. And in order to bring authenticity and believability to a character, it has become increasingly vital for actors to be aware of movement and physical acting. Stage and screen artists must now call upon physical presence, movement on stage, non-verbal interactions, and gestures to fully convey themselves. In Bringing the Body to the Stage and Screen, Annette Lust provides stage and screen artists with a program of physical and related expressive exercises that can empower their art with more creativity. In this book, Lust provides a general introduction to movement, including definitions and differences between movement on the stage and screen, how to conduct a class or learn on one's own, and choosing a movement style. Throughout the book and in the appendixes, Lust incorporates learning programs that cover the use of basic physical and expressive exercises for the entire body. In addition, she provides original solo and group pantomimes; improvisational exercises; examples of plays, fiction, poetry, and songs that may be interpreted with movement; a list of training centers in America and Europe; and an extensive bibliography and videography. With 15 interviews and essays by prominent stage and screen actors, mimes, clowns, dancers, and puppeteers who describe the importance of movement in their art and illustrated with dozens of photos of renowned world companies and artists, Bringing the Body to the Stage and Screen will be a valuable resource for theater teachers and students, as well as anyone engaged in the performing arts.

Slapstick and Comic Performance

Author: L. Peacock
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137438975
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 189

Book Description
Slapstick comedy has a long and lively history from Greek Theatre to the present day. This book explores the ways in which comic pain and comic violence are performed within slapstick to make the audience laugh. It draws examples from theatre, television and film on both sides of the Atlantic.

The Mime Book

Author: Claude Kipnis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781435262287
Category : Mime
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

A Practical Guide to Nature-Based Practice

Author: Niki Buchan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472938380
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
WINNER OF THE 2018 NURSERY WORLD STAFF RESOURCES AWARD There is a growing realisation that children in the Early Years benefit from being involved in wild spaces. They need dynamic and complex outdoor environments and opportunities for risk and challenge, to play with abandon, have first-hand experiences – places where there is adventure, delight, daring and joy! In this exciting book, outdoor education guru Niki Buchan offers ideas for natural learning in the Early Years. She provides a background to forest school and its relevance to Early Years settings, outlines the challenges and benefits of free play and a risk-taking disposition in children, and uses case studies from educators to explore the concept of nature-based practice. A Practical Guide to Nature-Based Practice presents ideas for outdoor learning that can be used all year round, whatever the season. This full-colour book will help adults and children alike to reconnect with their local environment making it a must-have for any Early Years setting!

Improvised Theatre and the Autism Spectrum

Author: Gary Kramer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000483525
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 231

Book Description
This guide provides educators, professionals, and parents with an easy-to-follow and comprehensive approach to utilizing improvised theatre as a tool to teach social and communication skills to individuals on the autism spectrum. Opening with the philosophy of the curriculum and the considerations of mental health, play, and environmental factors on individuals with autism, the book then breaks down specific activities, suggests course sequencing, and explains how each activity works and applies to desired outcomes. Packed with dozens of activities and explanations, the book includes all the information necessary to design a full curriculum or create an at-home learning program for parents. By combining the fun and engaging atmosphere of improvisational theatre with the systematic teaching of social skills, professionals and parents can cultivate learning in a way that keeps students engaged while providing long-lasting improvements in social interaction, self-confidence, and communication.

A Practical Guide to Therapeutic Communication for Health Professionals - E Book

Author: Julie Hosley
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN: 0323277381
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Book Description
This new textbook is designed to provide students with all the necessary tools to effectively communicate with patients and other health care professionals. With its easy-to-read style, it is loaded with useful tips to help students engage into the practice of communication. It presents condensed amounts of content for learning the basic principles and then integrating elements such as case scenarios, questions, or hints and tips to encourage application of those principles into real-life situations. - Easy-to-read style provides practical information, hints, and tips. - Test Your Communication IQ boxes provide students with a short self-assessment test at the beginning of each chapter. - Spotlight on Future Success boxes provide students with useful, practical tips for improving communication. - Taking the Chapter to Work boxes integrated within each chapter are actual case examples with useful tips to guide students to practice and apply what they have learned. - Beyond the Classroom Activities exercises at the end of each chapter help students use knowledge learned from topics presented in the chapter. - Check Your Comprehension exercises at the end of each chapter provide questions and activities to test student knowledge of chapter content. - Communication Surfer Exercises focus on helping students utilize Internet resources to improve their knowledge and application of communication skills. - Expanding Critical Thinking at the end of each chapter provides students with additional questions or activities designed to apply critical thinking skills. - Legal Eagle boxes provide useful tips that focus on honesty, as well as ethical and legal communication between patients and health care workers. - Unique, interactive CD-ROM, packaged with the textbook, includes a variety of application exercises, such as voice mail messages, patient/caregiver interviews, chapter key points, and patient charts. - Audio segments on the CD-ROM provide communication in action to help students observe verbal communication examples and apply their skills.