Centre Stage 3e

Centre Stage, third edition, is a comprehensively updated two-year drama course book suitable for middle secondary students across all states. Through creativity and the development of ideas, students will deepen their appreciation of drama and explore different ways they can perform and evaluate drama.

Features

• Comprehensively updated two-year drama course book
• New chapter dedicated to the 'Elements of Drama'
• New chapter topic: Political theatre
• Revised and expanded chapter on Playbuilding
• A variety of new performance tasks have been included at the end of each chapter
• Updated selection of Australian play extracts and practitioner profiles.

Contents

• Part One: Creating and performing drama
• 1 The performer's tools: Body and voice
• 2 Improvisation: Spontaneous performance
• 3 The elements of drama: A framework
• 4 Playbuilding: Devised performance
• Part Two: Directing, designing, playwriting and reviewing theatre
• 5 Directing and designing: Staging and performing play scripts
• 6 Playwriting: Creating and writing play scripts
• 7 Theatre criticism: Analysing and evaluating performances
• Part Three: Dramatic forms and performance styles
• 8 Melodrama: Just for the thrill
• 9 Comedy: It's all in the ... timing
• 10 Political theatre: Raising awareness
• 11 Physical theatre: Roll up! Roll up!
• 12 Non-realistic theatre: Visions, dreams and symbols