On Stage is a useful source for ensemble-building games for student-run drama groups .
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Lisa Bany-Winters
Chicago Review Press
Softcover
11 x 8 1/2 inches
171
978-1-55652324-3
1997
New
6 - 12
3
$ 16.95
$ 12.50
Synopsis of On Stage
On Stage is a great resource for a drama teacher or coach of the middle grades. Author Lisa Bany-Winters includes 11 sections focusing on different aspects of acting using theater games and activities. The chapters are as follows:
- Getting Onstage
- Twisting Your Tongue and Warming Up
- Anytime Theater Games
- Theater in the Round
- Make 'Em Laugh
- Creating Characters
- Improvisation
- Using and Becoming Objects
- Creative Drama
- Behind the Scenes
- Monologues, Scenes, and Plays
This chapter is about basic theater words and has games and diagrams to help you learn them.
"This chapter is full of fun warm-ups--some for your body, some for your voice, some for both."
This chapter encourages listening and responding to other actors. There are some great ice breakers in this chapter.
This chapter expands on listening skills by introducing games played in a circle.
"The activities in this chapter ...will give you some ideas for creating comedy scenes."
Practice developing characters by learning different ways of standing, walking, moving, and talking.
Learn the basic rules you need to know to become a successful improv actor and put the rules into practice in 14 activities included in this important chapter.
Become a piece of furniture or a musical instrument.
This chapter includes pantomime, working with puppets, and masks.
In this chapter you will learn about sound effects, costumes, creating sets, makeup, and prop characters.
The final chapter puts all you've learned into practice. It includes monologues, two scene plays, a comedy, a dramatic play, and a scene from Macbeth.
About the Author
"Lisa Bany-Winters began performing in community plays at the age of eleven....Her favorite part was the theater games and improvisation. She founded Emanon theater Company when she was fifteen years old. Within eight years, Emanon became an established professional theater company with a talented ensemble of actors who, under Lisa's direction, create original adaptations of children's classics through improvisation.
In 1990 she co founded the Evanston Children's Theater in Evanston, Illinois, giving children ages eight to twelve the opportunity to perform.
Currently she is the theater coordinator for the Emanon School of Performing Arts in Skokie, Illinois where she directs the children's theater, teen improv theater, and the Performing Arts Camp. She is a graduate of Columbia College in Chicago.
