Those who have already discovered the ease of teaching with the recently updated second edition of Suzi Zimmerman's Introduction to Theatre Arts, Volume 1 will be thrilled to learn we have now also revised Volume 2! This more advanced Student Workbook takes all the outstanding components you loved in the first book and applies it to seven new sections: 1. Theatre for Life's Lessons, 2. Movement -- Theatre for the Eyes, 3. Voice -- Theatre for the Ears, 4. Skill-Building Activities -- Theatre Projects, Mini-Units and Self-Guided Lessons, 5. Understanding and Writing Scripts, 6. Theatre Behind the Scenes, and 7. Production 101. The Student Workbook is just that... a true individual workbook for each student, loose-leaf, three-hole punched and ready to drop into a binder. Bursting with fun activities including readers theatre, pantomime, podcasts, karaoke, and radio theatre, this brand new second edition is gender neutral, better organized, updated to reflect modern technology and social media, and has a 2021 copyright date!

Like with the first volume, teachers will love having the entire student handbook in this teacher's guide, along with 100 additional pages of helpful information and tips, grading forms and scoring rubrics, student activities, and more. The second edition of the Teacher's Guide is also better laid out with the notes to the teacher now appearing alongside the corresponding student page. No more flipping back and forth between pages! Finally, this guide, which makes teaching theatre arts easy and fun for everyone, contains four special chapters: The Valuable Theatre Program, Theatre for Unique Learners, Theatre for Students Who Are Learning a New Language, and Guides and Helpers for Everything. Whether you use this text as a full-year curriculum, pick and choose activities for a semester-long class, or simply supplement other teaching materials with these materials, this best-selling textbook is a must-have resource!

A sequel edition to "Introduction to Theatre Arts". More study units for an entire years of classroom drama activities. Theory combined with hands-on is the style of every chapter. Classroom tested to fit the budgetary considerations of all schools.

The new edition is gender neutral, better organized, updated to reflect modern technology and social media, and has a 2021 copyright date! Classroom-tested, the year-long curriculum covers the entire spectrum for your Theatre 2 class.

We're excited to announce the upcoming release of the SECOND EDITION of everyone's favorite Introduction to Theatre Arts, volume 1, available August 11! You'll love that this brand new edition is gender neutral, better organized, updated to reflect modern technology and social media, and has a 2020 copyright date! Even better, the Student Workbook is just that... a true individual workbook for each student. Luckily, we've retained all the elements that made the first edition of this book a top-selling theatre arts curriculum text year after year. You'll still find the daily bell work, fun puzzles, and quizzes and tests that you've come to rely on to make classroom management easier. This classroom-tested, year-long curriculum covers the entire spectrum of theatre: theatre history, scene work, acting, characterization, publicity, play production, games and improvisations, and more.

We're excited to announce the upcoming release of the SECOND EDITION of everyone's favorite Introduction to Theatre Arts, volume 1, available August 11! You'll love that this brand new edition is gender neutral, better organized, updated to reflect modern technology and social media, and has a 2020 copyright date! Even better, the Student Workbook is just that... a true individual workbook for each student. The second edition of the Teacher's Guide is also better laid out with the notes to the teacher now appearing on the same page as the corresponding student page. No more flipping back and forth between pages! Four additional sections in the Teacher's Guide make this student-friendly text also very teacher-friendly: teaching tools, evaluation tools, production tools, and tests and major projects. Tests even include two levels of difficulty, so your evaluations can match your students and your expectations.

Most introductory theatre textbooks are written for theatre majors and assume the student already has a considerable amount of knowledge on the subject. However, such textbooks may be counterproductive, because they reference several works that may be unfamiliar to students with limited exposure to theatre. Theatre as Human Action: An Introduction to Theatre Arts, Second Edition is designed for the college student who may be unacquainted with many plays and has seen a limited number of theatre productions. Focusing primarily on four plays, this textbook aims to inform the student about theatre arts, stimulate interest in the art form, lead to critical thinking about theatre, and prepare the student to be a more informed and critical theatregoer. In addition to looking at both the theoretical and practical aspects of theatre arts—from the nature of theatre and drama to how it reflects society—the author also explains the processes that playwrights, actors, designers, directors, producers, and critics go through. The four plays central to this book are the tragedy Macbeth, the landmark African American drama A Raisin in the Sun, the contemporary rock musical Rent, and—new to this edition—the American comedy classic You Can’t Take It with You. At the beginning of the text, each play is described with plot synopses (and suggested video versions), and then these four representative works are referred to throughout the book. This second edition also features revised chapters throughout, including expanded and updated material on the technical aspects of theatre, the role of the audience and critic,and the diversity of theatre today. Structured into nine chapters, each looking at a major area or artist—and concluding with the audience and the students themselves—the unique approach of Theatre as Human Action thoroughly addresses all of the major topics to be found in an introduction to theatre text.