Drama 10, 20, 30
Creative/Productive
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| Use world theatre traditions to inspire ideas for own dramatic work. |
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| Create dramatic work demonstrating use of genre and style. |
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| Express a multiplicity of voices and perspectives (e.g., self, family, community, marginalized individuals, silenced people in history, powerful figures, celebrities, extraterrestrials, fictional characters) through works of dramatic art. |
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| Demonstrate directorial choices for a performance that utilizes oral or written text and/or devised material. |
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| Present and sustain a performance for an audience (e.g., peers, invited guests, public) that demonstrates innovation (e.g., aesthetic and technical). |
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R038286
Canadian Improv Games
This website contains drama and improv warmups, activities, exercises and games that can be implemented in any classroom. Ready to use lesson plans are included.
Media and Formats :
Website
Price :
Free
Record posted/updated:
June 27, 2022
R007542
Special Makeup Effects for Stage and Screen: Making and Applying Prosthetics (3rd ed.)
This is a comprehensive guide which focuses on prosthetic creation and application for stage, film and television. The resource provides technical instructions and images to achieve the desired effects.
Media and Formats :
Book
Price :
$69.95 USD
Record posted/updated:
June 9, 2021
R014628
Theatre Brief (12th ed.)
This is a comprehensive text with chapters that include: What Is Theatre?; Why Study Theatre?; The Actor; The Playwright; Designers and Technicians; The Director; Theatre Traditions; Modern Theatre; Musical Theatre; Theatre Today; and The Audience. This textbook facilitates the investigation of drama and the theatre arts by providing brief overviews with pictures, diagrams, charts, and interviews with professionals.
Media and Formats :
Book
Price :
$99.95
Record posted/updated:
June 9, 2021
R100669
The Art and Craft of TV Directing: Conversations with Episodic Television Directors
This book is a compilation of 20 interviews with acclaimed television directors of popular programs. The interviews provide insight into the television industry and what it takes to be a director.
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Book
Price :
$44.95 USD
Record posted/updated:
June 9, 2021
R007502
The Stage Manager's Toolkit: Templates and Communication Techniques to Guide Your Theatre Production from First Meeting to Final Performance (2nd ed.)
This book provides the reader with a clear outline of the tasks required by theatrical stage managers. From the planning, rehearsal and performance of a play, the stage manager’s role is described including examples, diagrams and photographs.
Media and Formats :
Book
Price :
$39.95 USD
Record posted/updated:
June 9, 2021
R007491
Stage Lighting: Design Applications and More
This book is a technical resource on lighting design for stage, film and video, museums, spectacle events, trade shows, night clubs, retail areas, landscape lighting, virtual lighting, themed lighting and architectural lighting. It would be best suited for individuals who seek to develop a higher level of understanding of stage lighting. The resource has illustrations and photographs to compliment the text. Included within the book are profiles of significant lighting designers and a description of their craft.
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Media and Formats :
Book
Price :
$68.95 USD
Record posted/updated:
June 11, 2021
R002405
Staging Musicals: An Essential Guide (2nd ed.)
This guide provides the reader with the steps they will need to follow to successfully stage a musical. The steps include selecting the show, creating the team, budgets, schedules and publicity, research and design, casting, stage management, different types of rehearsals, and opening night and beyond.
Media and Formats :
Book
Price :
$30.95 USD
Record posted/updated:
June 9, 2021
R007784
Directing for the Stage
This book is an introduction to theatrical directing. It provides an overview of the entire process of directing theatrical work from maintaining the timetable of the production process, effectively managing auditions, and supporting and encouraging actors and members of the creative team of the production.
Media and Formats :
Book
Price :
$24.20 USD
Record posted/updated:
June 9, 2021
R013771
Theatre. The Lively Art (10th ed.)
This is an introductory resource about the world of live theatre. While covering world theatre traditions both past and present, the resource also delves into the process of creating theatre from the standpoint of personnel and technical components. Roles of personnel are explained at length including playwrights, actors, producers, as well as technical departments and designers of costumes, hair, lights, sound, and set. The resource sets itself apart from other resources in that it discusses the process of experiencing live theatre, the role of the audience and how theatre etiquette has evolved over time.
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Media and Formats :
Book
Price :
$97.33
Record posted/updated:
June 11, 2021
R007529
Stagecraft Fundamentals: A Guide and Reference for Theatrical Production (3rd ed.)
This resource is a comprehensive reference guide for theatrical productions which includes history, safety, lighting, projections and other digital technology, costumes, hair and makeup, scenery, and career planning. It offers information for the novice to the more experienced individual who seeks insight into a well functioning theatre. Although some concepts may appear somewhat advanced, the information is presented in accessible language and the text is supported with photographs and diagrams.
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Media and Formats :
Book
Price :
$62.95 USD
Record posted/updated:
June 9, 2021
R012833
Designing with Light: An Introduction to Stage Lighting (7th ed.)
This book introduces all aspects of lighting theory and operations for stage lighting. It is intended for students and professionals of lighting design. It covers every aspect of theatre lighting as well as media projection. It references current technologies used in terms of fixtures, lamps, cabling, dimmers, boards, and electrical theory. Diagrams and colour photographs appear throughout the book enabling the reader to obtain a visual understanding of the concepts.
Media and Formats :
Book
Price :
$59.95 USD
Record posted/updated:
June 11, 2021
R052042
Theatre. Collaborative Acts (4th ed.)
This professional resource provides an extensive overview of almost all aspects of the Theatre. It explores topics such as the history of theatre, notable names, scene work, gender equality, basic lighting techniques and offers a connection to real-world theatre practices. It also provides ideas for students that extend beyond performance-based activities.
Media and Formats :
Book
Price :
$111.60
Record posted/updated:
May 31, 2021
R010855
Puppetry in Theatre and Arts Education: Head, Hands and Heart
The book is organized as a practical guide for the utilization of puppets in the classroom and it provides information on creating the most basic puppets to more elaborate ones. This book goes beyond the construction of puppets by suggesting that puppetry be used for cross-curricular learning.
Media and Formats :
Book
Price :
$21.56 USD
Record posted/updated:
May 31, 2021
R007484
Introduction to Production: Creating Theatre Onstage, Backstage, & Offstage
This book offers an overview of the collaborative processes associated with realizing a theatrical production. It provides a backstage and offstage overview of professional roles and how they work together. Many exercises and quizzes are provided in each chapter as well as web links.
Media and Formats :
Book
Price :
$48.95 USD
Record posted/updated:
July 12, 2021
R011752
Collaborative Stage Directing: A Guide to Creating and Managing a Positive Theatre Environment
This book may serve the novice director who aims to build a positive learning community within the drama or theatre arts program. It describes one director’s experience and lessons he learned throughout his career. It provides activities to enable instructors to practice the ideas developed in each chapter. Key topics examined in the book include safety, respect, positive attitude and the fostering of group sharing of ideas and staging concepts.
Media and Formats :
Book
Price :
$46.95 USD
Record posted/updated:
June 9, 2021
R030453
How to Teach a Play: Essential Exercises for Popular Plays
This book contains activities to develop students’ performative imagination using commonly taught plays from countries such as the United States of America, Great Britain, Germany, Norway, Japan, South Africa and Mexico. The activities are applicable to all levels of high school drama classrooms or rehearsals.
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Book
Price :
See publisher.
Record posted/updated:
June 27, 2022
R013011
Scenography
Scenography is a guide to the study and process of stage design considering space, set, props, costumes, lighting and sound. The book includes strategies, advice, technical insight and a case study.
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Book
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Record posted/updated:
June 27, 2022
R007483
Stage Lighting Design (2nd ed.)
This resource provides a thorough introduction to how to design lighting for a performance, including the history of lighting design, safety tips and how to choose equipment, apply colour, light a variety of stage layouts and create different moods with lighting.
Media and Formats :
Book
Price :
$53.95
Record posted/updated:
June 15, 2020
R008368
Maya/Mathangi/M.I.A. - The Making of a Political Pop Star
British rapper M.I.A. talks about her origins and her desire to use her music as a public platform to keep the focus on the refugee crisis, particularly the genocide facing the Tamils in her homeland of Sri Lanka.
Media and Formats :
Video
Price :
Free
Record posted/updated:
February 17, 2022
R013388
Drama Workshop: Teaching Drama to Beginning Actors
This book is a workshop for new actors. It explores the rules for stage and rehearsal, the roles of the actor and the director, and it promotes team building. It includes lessons that are easy to implement, regardless of one’s experience as a drama teacher.
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Book
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Record posted/updated:
June 27, 2022
R011290
The Director's Tookit: The Directing Process From Play Selection to Production
This book is an excellent collection of techniques to guide the development of a personal stage directing style. Informative chapters take the reader from start to finish in the development of a theatrical production. It provides an overview of stage directing for those individuals seeking to obtain a good understanding of the process from start to finish.
Media and Formats :
Book
Price :
$44.95
Record posted/updated:
June 2, 2021
R014569
Getting to Broadway Series
This series explores the path by which a number of famous Broadway musicals made it to the stage. Information is included on the source material for the shows, innovations that were introduced to stage performance by the shows and the impacts of these dramatic works on our culture at large and on theatrical history.
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How Hamilton Made It to the Stage
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How Wicked Made It to the Stage
Media and Formats :
Book
Price :
$30.95 US ea.
Record posted/updated:
June 15, 2020
R007134
ArtsAlive.ca
This website contains resources from the National Center of Arts. It provides useful resources for Dance, Drama and Music and Visual Arts in the form of research, photos, videos, audio and games supporting the arts. There are interviews with various Canadian artists, instructional videos, some short activities, glossaries, as well as links to various publications and other websites. Material from this site should be previewed to ensure suitability for the intended audience.
Media and Formats :
Website
Price :
Free
Record posted/updated:
July 12, 2021
R015195
The Dramatic Text Workbook and Video: Practical Tool for Actors and Directors (2nd ed.)
This is a practical and informative book for developing students’ vocal techniques. Activities and links to videos through Vimeo provide teachers and students with a working environment to develop their skills for theatrical expression.
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Book
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See publisher.
Record posted/updated:
June 27, 2022
R015323
Auditioning for Musical Theatre
This book investigates a practical approach to auditioning including identifying vocal strengths, choosing material, rules to guide an actor through the process, and a list of materials, genres and commonly used audition songs.
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Book
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Record posted/updated:
June 27, 2022
R015327
Playwriting. Structure, Character, How and What to Write
This is a comprehensive guide to deconstruct playwriting into its constituent parts. It offers insights into structure, character development, how to write and what to write.
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Book
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Record posted/updated:
June 27, 2022
R015331
22 Comedy Ten-minute Plays: Royalty-free Plays for Teens and Young Adults
This is a book of royalty-free short plays for a cast of two to eight actors with many gender-flexible roles. Each play has a cast of characters, a set description and a list of properties.
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Book
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Record posted/updated:
June 27, 2022
R015519
The Best Men's Monologues from New Plays, 2019
This is a collection of approximately 100 monologues, written as male characters, that come from both well-known playwrights and future stars.
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Book
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Record posted/updated:
June 27, 2022
R015520
The Best Women's Monologues from New Plays, 2019
This is a collection of monologues for women that are direct and raw in their examination of human behaviour. The language and content of this book present characters experiencing the complexities of life.
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Book
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Record posted/updated:
June 27, 2022
R006914
Costume Craftwork on a Budget: Clothing, 3-D Makeup, Wigs, Millinery and Accessories (2nd ed.)
This book provides practical applications of costume and make-up design. It is a detailed guide to several complex theatrical effects including 3-D makeup, teeth, wigs, beards, masks, hats and headdresses, armor, leather, accessories, and other costume effects. Using inexpensive materials to create durable costumes and props in a short amount of time, the author demonstrates various processes using step-by-step instructions, supported by colour photographs and line drawings.
Media and Formats :
Book
Price :
$49.95 USD
Record posted/updated:
June 2, 2021
R007966
Digital Theatre+
This subscription-based website gives access to professional stage productions from around the globe. It offers hours of theatre, behind the scenes material and interviews with actors and directors. Designed for educators of drama and technical theatre, teachers will find guides and many other tools for instruction from theory and criticism, to innovative lectures and performances.
Media and Formats :
Website
Price :
Subscription
Record posted/updated:
May 21, 2021
R019101
Performance Lighting Design: How to Light for the Stage, Concerts and Live Events (2nd ed.)
This book provides insight into theatrical lighting and gives practical ideas to achieve the desired aesthetic through planning and use of lighting techniques. Photographs and illustrations provide visual support of the concepts described in the text.
Media and Formats :
Book
Price :
$34.53
Record posted/updated:
February 22, 2022
R007722
Christine Sokaymoh Frederick
This DVD from the REDx Talks series is about Christine Sokaymoh Frederick, cofounder and artistic director of Alberta Aboriginal Arts which produces the Rubaboo Arts Festival. She is a Cree-Métis woman with 30 years of performance experience on the international stage as a dancer, musician, media artist, writer, producer and actor. In the video, Christine discusses the importance of the arts to protect one’s cultural heritage.
Media and Formats :
CD/DVD
Price :
$69.00
Record posted/updated:
July 19, 2021
R022023
Treasure Island
This book features the play Treasure Island. The book begins with the play’s script and is followed by activities that explore the skills required to perform it, interviews with the director and playwright and a glossary of theatrical terms. This resource provides students with an informative presentation of a contemporary dramatic production. The performers’ lines are printed in black and stage directions are in blue.
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Book
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Record posted/updated:
June 27, 2022
R015790
Teaching Improv. The Essential Handbook: Your Step-by-step Guide to Teaching Short-form Improv
This book provides 16 sequential lessons plans that teach the basics of short-form improv including warm-ups, exercises, games and structuring a show.
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Book
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Record posted/updated:
June 27, 2022
R015518
Contemporary Monologues for Twentysomethings
This is a book of monologues with characters facing real world issues. The story lines are direct and honest, and will challenge actors in their interpretation of the monologues.
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Book
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Record posted/updated:
June 27, 2022
R015333
Devising Critically Engaged Theatre with Youth: The Performing Justice Project
This resource provides educators with a framework for creating original youth theatre while learning about social justice in the context of supporting students performing for a more equitable world. Using recognizable methods and exercises, educators can collaborate with their students to create some powerful dramatic arts experiences.
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Book
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Record posted/updated:
June 27, 2022
R001891
The Craft and Art of Scenic Design: Strategies, Concepts, and Resources
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Book
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Record posted/updated:
June 27, 2022
R021820
Emil and the Detectives
This book features the play Emil and the Detectives, which is about a boy who is robbed by a mysterious stranger on the train to Berlin. The book begins with the play’s script and is followed by activities that explore the skills required to perform it, interviews with the director and playwright and a glossary of theatrical terms. This resource provides students with an informative presentation of a contemporary dramatic production. The performers’ lines are printed in black and stage directions are in blue.
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Book
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Record posted/updated:
June 27, 2022
R015334
Short Plays with Great Roles for Women
This is a collection of short plays that contain roles for women of all ages and ethnicities. The plays are appropriate in length for classroom use and address contemporary topics.
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Book
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See publisher.
Record posted/updated:
June 27, 2022
R013567
FREE
This DVD highlights the innovative expression of youth power and the ability to motivate positive social change through dance and theatre. Set in Oakland, California, this video is the story of five inner city teens whose lives are transformed through the power of collaborative art.
Media and Formats :
CD/DVD
Price :
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Record posted/updated:
February 29, 2024
R013739
The Makeup Artist Handbook: Techniques for Film, Television, Photography, and Theatre (3rd ed.)
This is a comprehensive textbook covering a range of makeup and aesthetic application techniques for film, television, stage and photography. It includes images and pro tips to achieve different looks.
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Book
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See publisher.
Record posted/updated:
June 27, 2022
R021383
Home
The play Home is about homelessness amongst young people. The book begins with the play’s script and is followed by activities that explore the skills required to perform it, interviews with the writer/director and cast member and a glossary of theatrical terms. This resource provides students with a unique presentation of a contemporary dramatic production. The performers’ lines are printed in black and stage directions are in blue.
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Book
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Record posted/updated:
June 27, 2022
R021886
The Wardrobe
This book features the play The Wardrobe, which explores the shaping of British history and how the past is connected to the present. The book begins with the play’s script and is followed by activities that explore the skills required to perform it, interviews with the director, playwright and designer and a glossary of theatrical terms. This resource provides students with an informative presentation of a contemporary dramatic production. The performers’ lines are printed in black and stage directions are in blue.
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Book
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Record posted/updated:
June 27, 2022
R012453
Red Man Laughing
This resource is a podcast that provides interviews highlighting Indigenous culture and contemporary issues in terms of artistic expression.
Media and Formats :
Website
Other
Price :
Free
Record posted/updated:
June 27, 2022
R015933
War Horse
Set in World War I, this play is about a young man who searches to bring home his horse that was sold to the cavalry. The book begins with the play’s script and is followed by activities that explore the skills required to perform it, interviews with the co-director, puppetry director and the author of the original novel and a glossary of theatrical terms. This resource provides students with an informative presentation of a contemporary dramatic production. The performers’ lines are printed in black and stage directions are in blue.
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Book
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Record posted/updated:
June 27, 2022
R015325
Migration Plays: Four Large Cast Ensemble Stories for Teenagers
This resource is a collection of four, large cast, ensemble plays on the topic of migration as viewed by young people. Created in collaboration with groups of secondary students, the stories are interesting and diverse.
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Book
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Record posted/updated:
June 27, 2022
R010858
Acting and Auditioning for the 21st Century: Tips, Trends, and Techniques for Film, Stage, Digital, and New Media
This book provides actors with a spectrum of how auditions can occur in the 21st century. It outlines trends and tips for actors in a very practical format, given the variety of media such as blue and green screen technology, motion capture, web series, audiobook work and livestreaming. This book also addresses issues relating to actors with disabilities, actors part of a visible minority and those who are part of the LGBTQIA community.
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Book
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Record posted/updated:
June 27, 2022
R024861
Theatrical Design and Production: An Introduction to Scenic Design and Construction, Lighting, Sound, Costume, and Makeup (8th ed.)
This book is a comprehensive survey of current standards and practices in scenic design. It includes updated illustrations and an explanation of recent technological advances in scenic design.
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Book
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Record posted/updated:
June 27, 2022