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New Titles New! Paperback: 168 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-162-7 MER393 $18.95 Monologues Include › A Selfish Generation › Who Are My Mom and Dad? › Too Much of a Good Thing › The Decline of Morality › When to Tell Secrets › Negative People › I Don’t Want to Move! Hey, Girlfriend Seventy-five Monologues for Girls By Kimberly A. McCormick At last. A book of insightful monologues for girls only! Similar in style to her popular book The Way I See It, this collection of monologues deals with the dilemmas that teenage girls face everyday at school, at home, and in general society. Sometimes real life events can be funny, but more often they are difficult. These monologues reflect struggles and triumphs. Sample titles include: Is He Worth it?, Is Our Family Falling Apart?, Don’t Let My Mother Die, Texting Terror, I Don’t Want to Move, A Selfish Generation, Let’s Get Fit, Making the Grade, Will I Ever Fit In?, Does Anyone Know What Loves Means?, Negative People, and No One Likes a Bully. With each monologue there are discussion questions for classroom use. These monologues are so unique in style they are superb for speech or drama classes and contest use. New! Mentone Educational Centre 215 Chesterville Road Moorabbin Victoria 3189 Paperback: 160 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-155-9 MER352 $18.95 Monologues Include › Junk Food Nazi › Credit Card Craziness › Text Addiction › Movie Maniac › Worst Best Friend Ever › Prepaid? Are You Kidding Me? › Surprise! 101 Monologues for Middle School Actors Including Duologues and Triologues By Rebecca Young This theatre book is a sequel collection of winning monologues in the style and format of 100 Great Monologs by the same author. Rebecca Young knows how middle schoolers think and act - and what they like to talk about! These monologues, duologues and triologues may be used for auditions, classroom assignments or discussion starters. With such a wide variety of topics there is a monologue to fit any student’s personality or preference. Star quality every one! New! Paperback: 136 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-164-1 MER398 $21.95 Chapters Include › Clowning › Getting Ready › Improvisation › Observation › Stretching and Relaxation › Voice New! Paperback: 136 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-166-5 MER399 $21.95 Chapters Include › Warming Up the Actor’s Tools › Getting to Know Each Other › Improvisation › Public Speaking Made Easy › Poetry for Performance 175 Theatre Games Warm-up Exercises for Actors By Nancy Hurley The games and exercises in this book are designed to be used as warm-ups at the beginning of a theatre class. They have been used successfully with middle grade students and they can easily be adapted for use with older teens, children and adults in various settings. The games are divided into twelve categories for easy reference: Clowning, Cooperation/Teamwork, Focus/Concentration, Getting Ready, Improvisation, Listening, Name Games, Observation, Pantomime, Stretching/Relaxation, Stage Movement, Voice. The games have been adapted from many books, workshops and standard group activities. This is a comprehensive collection of tested games and exercises. A must book for every theatre library. Drama Games and Acting Exercises 177 Games and Activities for Actors By Rod Martin Body movement, gesture, voice and interaction are all essential parts of this large selection of games and exercises. Within its twelve chapters are games for getting acquainted, over fifty games on how to warm up the actor’s tools, and over sixty games and exercises for improvisation and public speaking. Also included are over forty monologues and poems for dramatic presentation together with more than ten plays and scenes. This total drama book tells about how to assess dramatic performances and covers all drama terms and the essentials about a career in theatre. Each unit can stand alone. Enough resource material for several semesters of study. A must resource book for every drama library. New! Paperback: 148 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-156-6 MER377 $21.95 Chapters Include › The Planning Process › Non-Verbal Group Activities › Non-Verbal Individual Activities › Verbal Individual Activities › Verbal Pair Activities › Verbal Group Activities › Grab Bag Theatre Games and Activities Games for Building Confidence and Creativity By Lynda A. Topper How can a teacher without theatrical experience teach a course in theatre arts? How can a teacher inspire self-conscious students to perform before an audience? This book of activities is designed to build confidence in each student with non-threatening evaluations along the way. This drama text begins with basic group games and gradually expands to more challenging exercises. Emphasis on group and individual activity build verbal and non-verbal communication skills. New! Paperback: 256 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-165-8 MER397 $21.95 Chapters Include › Audition Preview › Audition Process › Playing the Classics › Playing Shakespeare › Playing the Period › Playing the Contemporary › Playing the Musical and the Medium The Theatre Audition Book 2 Playing Monologues from Contemporary, Modern, Period, Shakespearean and Classical Plays By Gerald Lee Ratliff This sequel to the popular The Theatre Audition Book features more than 130 monologues from classical, Shakespearean, period, modern, and contemporary plays, and a new chapter on musical theatre and the medium, including commercial and film auditions. The monologues – some taken from non-dramatic sources like novels and poems – are organized by historical times and provide an overview of acting style and audition expectations for playing each time period. The collection features well-known playwrights and a number of exciting new writers who have contributed original monologues written especially for classroom study and performance. 4 Prices Shown Do Not Include the GST - Add 10% 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 New! Paperback: 208 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-159-7 MER395 $21.95 Scenes Include › Picture Day › Love is All You Need › Home Alone › Food Fight › Barbie Girl › The Cat Walk › Save the Frogs New! New Titles/Directing Paperback: 176 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-168-9 MER400 $21.95 Scenes Include › New Kid › Battle of Wits › Funny Isn’t Always Funny › Cooperation › Mad Cow Disease › Misunderstanding › A Kennel of Truth Comedy Scenes for Student Actors Short Sketches for Young Performers By Laurie Allen This book is a sequel to Laurie Allen’s first book of scenes for teens. Our customers have been asking again and again for more of these real-life, juvenile dilemmas for kids to perform. They’re popular because the actors can portray characters like those they see every day. All situations are believable and easy for timid and eager actors to perform. Ideal for classroom practice or for an evening of entertainment. Short & Sweet Skits for Student Actors 55 Sketches for Teens By Maggie Scriven These short skits with casts of two to six players cover a wide variety of topics and drama styles. Some skits are comic for students learning comedy technique. Others are situations for students to learn more about themselves and others. The dialogue is crisp and easy to perform with very little planning or memorization required to stage the skits. Many may be staged Readers Theatre style. They work well in a classroom and they may also be used in a theatrical setting. They can be staged and directed by the students themselves. Excellent for competition or comedy revue shows. Paperback: 264 pages, 21 x 28cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-141-2 MER050 $23.95 Chapters Include › Starting Out › Script Exploration › First Rehearsal › Performance and Post Performance › Introduction to Technical Aspects The Drama Teacher’s Survival Guide A Complete Tool Kit for Theatre Arts By Margaret F. Johnson Success assured -- for every show you direct or produce! Written from 37 years of drama teaching experience, this theatre book provides detailed, step-by-step information, examples, and suggestions about how to direct a school drama program without mistakes, trouble, or delay. The nineteen chapters cover everything: play selection, tryouts, rehearsals, costuming, props, lighting, publicity, and final performance. To further clarify each step, examples are provided with illustrations, photos, and proven ideas. Reproducible handouts and forms are also included together with a list of many additional resources. Whether you are a seasoned drama director or a beginner, you will find this theatre text to be an invaluable aid. It will banish your stress and guarantee your success! Paperback: 328 pages, 15 x 23cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-014-9 MER204 $30.95 Chapters Include › Creating The Directing Workshop › The Silent Seven › Justifying Movement › Ground Plan Exercises › Open Scene Exercises › Supporting Parts Directing for the Stage A Workshop Guide of Creative Exercises and Projects By Terry John Converse The forty-two exercises detailed in this comprehensive guide provide both the instructor and the student a “user-friendly” workshop structure. It may be used for both beginning and advanced courses of Directing for Theatre. The basic concepts of directing are learned progressively. The approach is totally experiential – the student discovers the demands and problems of directing by actually doing it step-by-step. The student’s own directing style emerges with each exercise. Creativity and confidence building are the central benefits of this excellent workshop text. It is the only text that combines theory with active student participation. Terry John Converse is a Professor of Theatre at Washington State University where he teaches all levels of Directing and Script Analysis. He has directed plays/musicals/operas in professional settings. He resides in Pullman, Washington. Paperback: 360 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-071-2 MER370 $29.95 Contents Include › Basics › Rehearsal › Analysing the Script › Style and the Sharing of Viewpoints › Working with Your Collaborators › The Director and the Theatrical Space The Director’s Eye A Comprehensive Textbook for Directors and Actors By John Ahart A thorough understanding of the unique considerations directors and actors face is apparent in every page of this book. The book is a complete semester course, with thirty-five chapters in seven sections with accompanying assignments complete with summaries. It contains information on rehearsing, analysing and scoring a script, working with playwrights and designers, blocking, memorising lines and a wealth of other pertinent know-how. It includes sketches by Pinter and scenes from Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”, chapters on comedy, warm-up exercises, production photographs and quotations. It invites the reader to consider the possibilities of ‘any production, anywhere’, and is adaptable for use by students from secondary to graduate school. DVD: with 44 page workbook ISBN: 978-1-56608-114-6 Playing time: 45 minutes MER108 $34.95 Chapters Include › Things to Consider before Getting Started › Laying the Foundation › Jumps, Turns and Kicks › Advanced Steps › Figuring Out Formations and Staging Getting Your Kicks! A Beginner’s Guide to Choreography By Andrea Gibbs Everything you need on one DVD! For the first time, stage choreography has been simplified so any beginner can visually learn all the essentials in one viewing! This DVD and workbook set makes a superb toolkit for building confidence in untrained dancers, while teaching them the basics they need to participate in a choreographed dance number. A convenient interactive menu of the eight chapters allows the user to see the step-by-step action over and over again as needed. The DVD shows inexperienced teens performing musical counting to fit both simple and advanced dance routines as well as musical styles. Dancer/narrator Adrea Gibbs demonstrates how to add style to any dance pattern with body and hand movements. She also demonstrates the actions of fun dance steps from the Charleston to the Shim Sham. This is an incomparable resource for creating an endless number of choreographic combinations. 45-minute DVD with 40 page workbook. www.mentone-educational.com.au Prices Shown Do Not Include the GST - Add 10% 5
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