Reader Review by Bridie Moore
I have used Viola Spolin's Improvisation for the Theatre for about 23 years now and the book has a number of games and exercises which have become an integral part of my teaching. Over all...
Reader Review by Marie-Christine Payette
My favourite drama teaching book is Unscripted Learning: Using Improv Activities Across the K-8 Curriculum. I use it a lot in my classes and enjoy it a lot as well...
Reader Review by Tom Fearon, Roseville, CA
Designed for teachers, this book is an excellent resource for classes with the 12-15 year old actor. I use this book in my Theatre Arts One: Beginning Theatre...
Reader Review by Stephen Barker, Theodore, Australia
Teachers of secondary drama will find Centre Stage by Mathew Clausen an invaluable resource. Covering all the key curriculum areas, it contains both practical and theoretical exercises and ideas for units of work, and includes 'side-bars'...
This book provides an excellent framework for Key Stage 3 drama., including 16 practical, varied and imaginative units of work with clear aims, backed up by resource sheets and a model...
A highly practical book providing a wide range of ideas for using drama across the curriculum, with themes ranging from Ancient Egypt and Greek Myths to Silent Film, Shakespeare and...
Designed to be used as a dip-into book, containing over 40 approaches to using drama with well-known texts already popular with children. The sections cover fiction, poetry, non-fiction...
A practical manual of drama lesson approaches for working across a range of curriculum subjects. Valuable advice about drama policies and evaluation as well as accessible hands-on...
This book contains a series of ready-planned drama lessons based on 12 readily-available books for 4-7 year olds. A range of drama techniques are used throughout. The lessons...
This flick-through book of catchy drama games is packed with 101 activities which could be fun to play with a wide range of groups. They are divided into sections such as Imagination,...
The latest addition to the series of new editions for 11-16 year olds from Shakespeare's Globe Education tackles Romeo and Juliet. Just like the edition...
Jessica Swale follows up her popular first collection of drama games with a second volume that will be of use to anybody embarking on devising their own performance...
This CD-ROM presents an abridged animated version of A Midsummer Night's Dream broken down into forty simple scenes. Children click on the 'Next' button once they have finished listening to and watching a scene. Each scene has a one sentence summary for children to read and listen to and they can click on a character to hear an extract of a speech...
After school drama clubs are a popular choice as part of extended schools programming and this book is aimed squarely at teachers and freelance practitioners...
By my troth, I am fain to recommend this highly practical book if you are looking to explore Shakespeare with primary-aged varlets. The author provides more...
This invaluable book brings together a whole range of contemporary approaches to drama in education. 12 leading practitioners from the worlds of educational drama and professional...
Many schools are finding it more and more difficult to engage children in mathematics. This book aims to correct that by placing a whole range of creative approaches into the...
Macbeth is the first in a series of new editions from Shakespeare's Globe Education. Aimed at 11-16 year olds, the book brings the text alive through dozens of full-colour photos...
Review by Chris Lawrence, London Drama
National Drama’s International Drama Conference this year was held at Swansea University 11-14th April 2011. Titled Drama - Same Difference and subtitled diversity and mutuality of process and practice it attracted attendees from every continent on Earth (except Antarctica) and provided a rich programme of keynotes,...