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Theatre Games/Comedy Skits Paperback: 192 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-0-916260-92-7 MER005 $21.95 Chapters Include › Relaxing and Focusing Exercises › Acting Games › Improvisations › Exercises for Characters, Scenes and Plays Mentone Educational Centre 215 Chesterville Road Moorabbin Victoria 3189 Paperback: 248 pages, 21 x 28cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-146-7 MER128 $21.95 Chapters Include › Imagination › Concentration and Focus › Sensory Awareness › Understanding Your Objective › Prop Exploration › Auditions and Casting Acting Games – Improvisations and Exercises A Textbook of Theatre Games and Improvisations By Marsh Cassady A four-section book of acting games and improvisations to assist students in developing their creative abilities. Section one includes games for relaxing and focusing. Section two helps students discover new ways of seeing themselves, others and the world around them. The third section demonstrates with improvisations how to use space to build scenes and create characters from imagination. Section four features acting games to analyse and play characters from existing plays. All of the essential elements of acting and character development are explored. A working textbook for acting students of all ages. Marsh Cassady is a former high school and college theatre instructor who has acted or directed in over 100 plays. He currently authors books on theatre arts and writing from his San Diego, California home. Acting Games for Individual Performers A comprehensive workbook of 110 acting exercises By Gavin Levy A student actor or professional performer will use this book again and again for self-discovery exercises designed to enhance acting skills. It is a “doing” book which challenges the actor with every exercise. A superb text that is both functional and inspirational. Paperback: 240 pages, 21 x 28cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-147-4 MER184 $26.95 Chapters Include › Breaking the Ice › Look What We Can Do › Where Are We? › Thickening The Plot › Doing It with Style Drama Games and Improvs Games for the Classroom and Beyond By Justine Jones and Mary Ann Kelley This drama text includes 137 drama games in a lesson play format. Everything you need to teach basic dramatic skills using improv games. A semester-long theatre curriculum guide; if used with Improv Ideas by the same authors, there are enough games for a year’s work. Select from more than 134 drama games and improvs adaptable to all age groups. Within the theatre book’s 30 units are 74 lessons covering all elements of drama. The lessons are structured sequentially with emphasis on group building. The drama guide helps you teach drama skills holistically. Students are unaware they are being taught many new skills with every lesson. This unique curriculum is the culmination of many years of evolution and testing. Clearly the most comprehensive and easy-to-use improv book available today. Paperback: 256 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-089-7 MER031 $21.95 Sketches Include › Backwards Bank Robbery › The First Dictionary Salesman › The Mirror Marriage › My Fellow Cavemen › Talk Show Restaurant › Teacher Parent Conference › Testosterone Challenge Sketch-O-Frenia Fifty Short and Witty Satirical Sketches By Jon Dessler and Lawrence Phillis A rare collection of comedy sketches suitable for stage, television or film. Think: ants, fish and other unlikely creatures satirizing everything we consider normal and acceptable. Other spoofs in the collection parody many of the sacred icons of our everyday life. These superfunny sketches are short, incisive and certain to challenge any audience. Actors have the chance to perform as wildly different character types in off-the-wall situations. A supernova of fun for classroom actors or for a repertory group of performers. John Dessler and Lawrence Phillis are established writers as well as graphic artists, musicians and performers. They run the Outlet for Creativity Inc. in Rochester, Pennsylvania. Paperback: 184 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-143-6 MER126 $19.95 Plays Include › Creative Writing › Un-Identical Twins › Just Act Natural › The Note › There’s Always Next Year › Top Secret Paperback: 336 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-037-8 MER307 $23.95 Sketches Include › Bardic Blackouts › Users › Father Knows Better › In the Appellations › The Monologue 10 Thirty Short Comedy Plays for Teens Plays for a Variety of Cast Sizes By Laurie Allen Real life teen dilemmas written as comedy. These thirty short plays give teenage performers a chance to portray the drama of their everyday lives. They may act crazy, push boundaries, and discover themselves as the plays permit them to show off their talents. The actors can create outrageous characters in the context of situations they know so well. Inexperienced actors will come alive as performers because these plays offer natural dialogue and believable situations. The plays in this drama book are for between two to six actors and are excellent for contest use. Prices Shown Do Not Include the GST - Add 10% Funny Business An Introduction to Comedy with Royalty-free Plays and Sketches By Marsh Cassady For big laughs, comedy relies on exaggeration, incongruity, automatism, character inconsistency, surprise and derision. Now a book that defines and demonstrates each of these devices with twenty-two short sketches and one-act plays. This unique overview of high and low comedy defines all comedy genres: absurdism, tragicomedy, farce and melodrama. A discussion precedes each type of comedy illustrated, explaining the comic devices used. The reader will find many insights along the way about how to write and perform each comedy style successfully. The wide variety of scripted drama material included makes the book very user-friendly for teaching, acting practice and live presentations. Marsh Cassady is a former high school and college theatre instructor who has acted or directed in over 100 plays. Check our website for latest releases and pricing
Phone (03) 9553 3234 Fax (03) 9553 4562 Email sales@mentone-educational.com.au Web www.mentone-educational.com.au Paperback: 144 pages, 14 x 21cm and DVD ISBN: 978-1-56608-112-2 MER101 $26.95 Chapters Include › Using Monologs in the Work › Follow the Fear › The Kitchen Rules › From Improv to Writing › Advice to Future Performers › Del the Improviser › The Living Wake Comes Complete with DVD Art by Committee A Guide to Advanced Improvisation By Charna Halpern This sequel to the best-selling improv book “Truth in Comedy” has been designed to help improv performers move up to the more advanced levels of improvisation. Accompanying the book is a DVD featuring performers demonstrating the instructions and ideas covered in the book. The DVD includes performances from four popular improv groups: The Upright Citizens Brigade, Beer Shark Mice, Armando Diaz Theatrical Experience, and The Reckoning, with assorted short clips with Peter Hulne. Also on the DVD are interviews with many celebrity improv artists including Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch, Amy Poehler, Stephnie Weir, Tim Meadows, Andy Dick and Adam McKay. This book contains 19 chapters divided into 3 parts, i.O. Forms: Art by Committee, The Improviser, and, History. Improv Paperback: 208 pages, 21 x 28cm and DVD ISBN: 978-1-56608-113-9 MER100 $26.95 Games Include › The Wacky Family › Fruit Basket Upset › Fractured Fairy Tales › Wax Museum › Annoyance Game › Props Freeze › To the Rescue Comes Complete with DVD Improv Ideas A Book of Games and Lists By Justine Jones and Mary Ann Kelley Generating ideas from your own improv group is always best, but when you need a source for memory jogs and new inspirations to keep things lively, this book is a must. It includes more than seventy games and lists, along with a CD-ROM, so that they can be directly printed onto labels or pages for student use. Everything is listed in alphabetical order for quick reference and three appendixes contain information about their dramatic uses for games, national theatre standards, as well as other gimmicks and tools. Justine Jones has taught improvisation drama for over thirty years in secondary schools. Mary Ann Kelley has taught drama for thirty years with the central focus of developing plays through improvisation. Paperback: 280 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-075-0 MER389 $21.95 Chapters Include › What Is Improv? › Improvisational Skills › Structuring › Strategies The Ultimate Improv Book A Complete Guide to Comedy Improvisation By Edward J. Nevramont and Nicholas P. Hanson Improv, short for improvisation, is a great spontaneous art form which can be used for entertainment or therapy purposes. This four-part book is an excellent guide for drama teachers that want to include improv techniques in their students’ activities. These techniques and theories aim to help people involved in theatre activities, but could be useful in many unrelated areas as well. There are no strict “rules” involved in these activities, but to become a successful improvisator one has to know the right way to do it. This comprehensive book is a great help and provides assistance and many valuable tips. Edward J Nevraumont has coached a high school improv team for six years, and developed training materials for drama teachers across Canada. Nicholas P Hanson is an actor, director and designer of community theatre projects. Paperback: 144 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-0-916260-98-9 MER097 $18.95 Workshops Include › Improvisation › Character Development › Physicalization › Vocal Techniques › Gibberish › Animals › Conflict Improve with Improv! A Classroom Guide to Improvisation and Character Development By Brie Jones This book is a complete improv curriculum program divided into 20 class length workshops. Each workshop contains carefully selected exercises designed to help students focus on one aspect of a character’s personality. Students learn how to create characters from their own imaginations through the use of solo and ensemble pantomime, physicalization, vocal techniques, props, and more. Gestures, facial expressions, voice and body language are studied in isolation. Many ensemble sketches are included, along with a final improv sketch with enough “roles” for all members of a large class. Paperback: 200 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-094-1 MER098 $21.95 Chapters Include › Improv Comedy Schools › Improv Comedy Basics › Comic Character Development › Long Form Improv › Writing Sketch Comedy Improvisation for Actors and Writers A Guidebook for Improv Lessons in Comedy By Bill Lynn Far more than simply an overview of improv comedy, this book helps actors, writers and comedians learn the basics as taught in all the major comedy schools. First, the do’s and don’ts of the Comedy Improv Commandments. Next, the concepts that, when understood, hit the student like falling anvils. Anvil 1: Collaboration - Working with the “Group Mind”, Anvil2: Agreement - “Just Say Yes”, Anvil 3: Foundation - “Who, What, and Where”, Anvil 4: Exploring - “Finding the Game” Successful improv requires the skill of the actor, the talent of the comedian and the ideas of the writer, all rolled into one. This book tells how it can all be done for both performers and teachers. Bill Lynn performs in student sketch shows at Second City, L.A. and The Groundlings. Paperback: 152 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-138-2 MER024 $19.95 Chapters Include › An Introduction to Mind Reading › The Morale Majority › The Games and Their Explanations › Bonding › Energy › Dynamics › Party Games and more Group Improvisation The Manual of Ensemble Improv Games By Peter Gwinn with additional material by Gharana Halpern Who would have thought that participating in group improv could be so enlightening and rewarding? Peter Gwinn and his colleagues at the ImprovOlympic theatre in Chicago have developed The Group Mind to create a new awareness in the mind and spirit of any group or team. The Group Mind, the Holy Grail of improvisation, is created by a synergy among improv participants. It’s like ESP. It’s the feeling of being part of a greater entity, a sense of excitement, belonging, importance that takes teamwork to a new level. Over forty improv games are included for developing group chemistry: creation, bonding, dynamics, energy, focus and more. Techniques are discussed for breaking the ice, agreement listening and support, teamwork, quick thinking and having fun! www.mentone-educational.com.au Prices Shown Do Not Include the GST - Add 10% 11
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