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Costuming Paperback: 128 pages, 21 x 28cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-048-4 MER356 $23.95 Chapters Include › Materials › Theatrical Costumes › Christmas Costumes › Storybook Costumes › Quick & Easy Costumes Mentone Educational Centre 215 Chesterville Road Moorabbin Victoria 3189 Paperback: 96 pages, 21 x 28cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-070-5 MER041 $23.95 Chapters Include › Materials › Making the Costumes › The Costumes › Resources Costuming Made Easy A Book on How to Make Theatrical Costumes from Cast-off Clothing By Barb Rogers Make your own theatrical costumes for less than a day’s rental price and make them your way without conventional sewing using patterns. Included in this book are more than 110 ingenious costume designs with photos and diagrams. Included: Princess, Prince, Clown, Devil, Witch, Medieval Lady, Elves, Peter Pan, Captain Hook, Pinocchio and many more. Also costumes for leading characters in popular shows: Camelot, Oklahoma, Guys and Dolls, King and I, Pirates of Penzance and more. Instant Period Costumes How to Make Classic Costumes from Cast-off Clothing By Barb Rogers Why spend a small fortune to rent costumes when you can create them yourself for less than a day’s rental price? Make them the easy way from cast-offs without sewing! Included in this book are over 100 ingenious costume designs with photos and diagrams for many period characters from Egyptian, Greek and Roman all the way to Punk. These conversion costuming ideas will save you time, money and deadline disasters and give you precisely the costume you want. Barb Rogers is the founder and owner of Broadway Bazaar Costumes, a popular and growing costume shop in Mattoon, Illinois. At the age of 51, Barb hopes to become a publisher novelist but will always hold on to costuming as her first love. Paperback: 144 pages, 15 x 23cm ISBN: 978-0-916260-88-0 MER078 $18.95 Chapters Include › Resources: Where Do I Start? › Period Costumes › Who Was That Masked Man? › Underneath It All › Helpful Hints and Useful Information › The Play’s the Thing › Epilogue: Behind the Scenes Elegantly Frugal Costumes Do-it-yourself Costume Maker’s Guide By Shirley Dearing This wonderfully practical book literally shows you how to make costumes for plays, pageants and musicals at the lowest possible expense! Over 150 detailed illustrations work with the easy-to-follow text to walk you through every step of the process. Just about every basic period is covered: Biblical to Medieval, Renaissance, Angels, The Fabulous Fifties, 1800s to World War I, the Roaring Twenties and more. Many helpful hints on making or buying realistic period theatrical costumes on a shoestring budget from cast-offs, donations, scraps, and other easily-obtained materials. Also included are “special effects” costumes, helpful hints for getting into and out of costumes, and a glossary of costuming terms. A book that will pay for itself with its first use. Shirley Dearing holds degrees in music and art and has sung and designed costumes for several operas. She lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Paperback: 216 pages, 21 x 28cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-103-0 MER069 $23.95 Costumes Include › Animals › Clowns › Famous Personalities › Historic Characters › Parties and Event Costumes › Story Book Characters Costumes, Accessories, Props and Stage Illusions Made Easy More Designs from Cast-off Clothing By Barb Rogers Transform common people into superheroes, movie stars, knights, and witches - whichever illusion you wish to create. Creative costuming is all in the details. One garment can take on many and varied looks, depending on how you accessorise it. Over the years Barb Rogers has learned all the tricks on how to turn leftover clothing into fabulous costumes. This book’s numerous drawings explain in detail, the costuming process of “turning straw into gold.” It shows how to design illusions that were never thought possible. Yes, you can do all this and much more – easily, and at minimal expense! This is another Barb Rogers “must have” book for your library of costume ideas. Separated into five sections, • Costumes, • Accessories, • Props, • Illusion Costumes, and • Costume Index. Paperback: 160 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-021-7 MER208 $18.95 Chapters Include › Costumes Are Not Clothes › Preventive Medicine For Everyone Involved In High School Productions › Medieval/Shakespearean › 19th Century/Turn-of-the-century › The 1950s-1960s › In Your Dreams! Broadway Costumes on a Budget Big-time Ideas for Amateur Producers By Janet Litherland and Sue Mcanally High school, college and community theatre versions of Broadway shows can have all the glitz, glitter and pizzazz of the New York variety. This book lists 100 famous musicals categorized by costume styles. Applying the book’s crossover system, costumes from one show can easily be altered for any other show in the same category. “How-to-do-it” suggestions are given for both the basic costume design and for specific show adaptations. Janet Litherland, the author of six nonfiction books and many plays, is an editorial associate for a travel magazine. She resides near Tallahassee, Florida. Co-author Sue McAnally of Thomasville, Georgia, has served as the costume designer for the Thomasville Music and Drama Troupe, a performance group of 200 teenagers, for nearly 20 years. Paperback: 184 pages, 21 x 28cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-154-2 MER159 $23.95 Chapters Include › What Are Props? › Interacting with Other People › The Prop Shop › Collections and Files › Rehearsals and Performances › Safety The Prop Master A Guidebook for Successful Theatrical Prop Management By Amy Mussman Whether you are a professional, volunteer or student prop master for a play production, this book reviews what a demanding theatre tech position this is. The eleven chapters of this book provide clear definitions of the job in action. They tell how to build a props department, how to create props and how to work with the technical crew, designers, supervisors and performers. No prop master should work without this guide as a ready reference to solve many unexpected problems. 6 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 Paperback: 176 pages, 21 x 28cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-062-0 MER166 $23.95 Chapters Include › Stages and Riggings › Production Staff and Crews › Properties › Sound › Tools › Lumber and By-products › Scenery Construction Stagecraft 1 A Complete Guide to Backstage Work By William H. Lord Nineteen chapters detailing all the fundamentals of backstage work – all the tools and the language which applies to any theatre operation. The book is loaded with photographs, illustrations and diagrams of the text material. The what, when and why of stagecraft. Selected for the Baker and Taylor Approval Program. Now in its updated and revised third edition. Theatre consultant William H. Lord designs backstage systems for several architectural firms. He also teaches and serves as the chairman of the performing arts department at North Central High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. Stagecraft Student Workbook Paperback: 68 pages, 21 x 28cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-067-5 MER210 $9.95 Teachers Guide Paperback: 76 pages, 21 x 28cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-066-8 MER211 $29.95 Comes Complete with CD Stagecraft 1 Student Workbook A saddle-stitched book drilled for insertion into a three-hole notebook binder. Includes 68 pages for structured note-taking and independent study. Contains 23 crossword puzzles in a lift-out centre section for use as quizzes. Stagecraft 1 Teacher’s Guide A 76-page saddle-stitched book with all general answers and completed crossword puzzles. Also includes a CD-ROM with quizzes, tests, exam and student workbook information. Paperback: 128 pages, 21 x 28cm ISBN: 978-0-916260-91-0 MER151 $21.95 Chapters Include › Stagecraft › Scene Design › Scene Painting › Dramatic Lighting › Scenic Progression › Architecture Self-supporting Scenery for Children’s Theatre … and Grown-up’s, Too Fifth Edition – Revised By James Hull Miller Free-standing scenery creates its own theatre – it’s compact, economical and flexible. It marches right onto any stage platform, classroom, recreation hall or garden theatre. This book shows how to construct self-supporting scenery with the aid of over 175 drawings. This is an excellent reference book written by a leading designer in the field. Former professor James Hull Miller is an independent consulting designer for schools and communities needing stages and sets. He has written several stage and set design books and resides in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a Founding Member of the American Society of Theatre Consultants. Paperback: 128 pages, 15 x 23cm ISBN: 978-0-916260-46-0 MER161 $19.95 Chapters Include › Folding Screens › Walls › Steps and Platforms › Stagecraft in Schools › Theatre Designs › Proscenium Theatre Small Stage Sets on Tour Second Edition By James Hull Miller This book contains Miller’s fifty years experience in the design, construction and application of portable stage sets. Dozens of actual sets and how to build them are included. Also examines various types of theatres and other playing spaces encountered in travelling productions. Miller recounts many of his backstage experiences and discusses the theory taught at his Arts Lab. An indispensable resource for stage crews and theatre students. Many illustrations throughout. Former professor James Hull Miller is an independent consulting designer for schools and communities needing stages and sets. He has written several stage and set design books and resides in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a Founding Member of the American Society of Theatre Consultants. Paperback: 176 pages, 14 x 21cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-098-9 MER163 $23.95 Chpaters Include › Tools and Terminology › Manipulating Light › The Lighting Process › The Creative Process › The Production Process Introduction to Stage Lighting The Fundamentals of Theatre Lighting Design By Charles I. Swift Everything you always wanted to know about theatrical stage lighting but were afraid to ask! All the basics are here in this comprehensive text for students of all ages. All of the latest lighting instruments and technical information are described in easy-to-understand and welldefined terms. The fundamentals of manipulating the key (source) light and shadow, intensity and balance, changing focus and mood and more are explained in detail with illustrations. The creative process of expressing emotion, pace and intent, as well as following cues, plots and schedules are also covered along with the production process of working with directors in rehearsal and performance. Charles I. Swift, MIES, brings over 25 years of theatrical production experience to his work as a professional lighting consultant and designer. Paperback: 136 pages, 15 x 23cm ISBN: 978-1-56608-017-0 MER165 $18.95 Chapters Include › The Art of Stage Lighting › Lighting the High School Auditorium › Lighting Little Theatres and Civic Theatres › How much light Do I Need? › Stage Light and Accessories › Dimmers and Cues › Homemade Equipment Stage Lighting in the Boondocks A Stage Lighting Manual for Simplified Stagecraft Systems By James Hull Miller This leading authority in small theatre stagecraft, shows and tells how professional-quality lighting can be achieved within the limitations of school auditoriums, community theatres and churches. The book is divided into two parts. The first part contains a short section on stage lighting in general, plus a number of lighting solutions for specific programs and locations. The second part contains more detailed information on dimmers, lamps, spotlight types, filters, connectors, control-boards, home-made equipment and the like. This is a workshop book with many art illustrations. It will pay for itself many times over in the equipment savings it makes possible. Former professor James Hull Miller is an independent consulting designer for schools and communities needing stages and sets. He has written several stage and set design books and resides in Charlottesville, Virginia. www.mentone-educational.com.au Prices Shown Do Not Include the GST - Add 10% 7
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