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Grammar Wars
by TOM READY
179 games and improvs
for learning language arts
Paperback: $17.95
(184 pages)
Order #R-B241
Improv is a fun way to learn language arts as well as
acting and theatrical skills. The author, a leading
California language arts and theatre educator, years
ago discovered improv exercises and games that blur
the lines between performance and language practice.
Since then, he’s used improvisation to teach English,
and English to teach rehearsal and acting skills. The
exercises and games in this book can be used to help
students learn punctuation, grammar and parts of
speech as well as performance skills. Categories
include: Phonics, Vocabulary, Parts of Speech,
Punctuation, Sentences, Reading Comprehension,
Storytelling, Writing, Acting and more. The games are
divided into three levels of difficulty — easy, moderate and
difficult — to suit individual students. An excellent
supplemental text for English and drama classes.
Outstanding Stage
Monologs and
Scenes from
the ’90s
edited by STEVEN H. GALE
Professional auditions
for student actors
Paperback: $15.95
(208 pages)
Order #R-B236
A collection of forty-three selections from some of the
most important contemporary plays and playwrights of
the 1990s. These selections reflect actors’ and student
actors’ desires for new and fresh scenes and monologs,
pieces that are challenging and exciting to perform. The
book reflects current trends where small theatre groups
proliferate, women and minorities have a growing
influence, and drama has become a truly international art
form. Includes monologs for male and female actors, duet
scenes for two male and two female actors, and scenes
for combinations of male and female actors. Thirty-nine
playwrights are represented including Pinter, Stoppard,
Albee, Fratti, Kushner, Horowitz, Wilder, Norman,
Dresser, Gurney, Rivera, Cruz, Friel and more. A few
selections contain strong language and adult situations
that might be objectionable to some.
The Flip Side
by HEATHER H. HENDERSON
64 point-of-view
monologs for teens
Paperback: $15.95
(152 pages)
Order #R-B221
Short, breezy, provocative — these monologs are
superb for acting exercises, speech and drama contests
or for auditions. Each monolog characterization
focuses on a topic of interest to middle school or high
school teens. The book is divided into three sections:
Ladies …, And Gentleman … and All Together
Now! Sample titles include: Mirror, Mirror; Couch
Potato; Mrs. Spit and I’m a Virgin, So Sue Me.
Within each section the monologs are paired to permit
a presentation of a different opinion of the same topic.
The two-minute length of most of these monologs
makes memorization easy. Suitable for classroom or
performance activities.
Theatre Books
Grammar Wars II
by TOM READY
How to integrate improvisation
and language arts
Paperback: $15.95
(208 pages)
Order #R-B252
The original and very popular Grammar Wars text has
been workshopped in classrooms throughout the U.S.
Now a new text to answer questions about this unique and
valuable technique for learning language and theatre arts.
In addition to over 115 new games, the author explains
productive and defensive behaviors that students
exhibit in the performance of the exercises. By
encouraging productive behavior teachers can help
students learn performance skills as well as punctuation,
grammar and parts of speech. An excellent supplement
text. Sample chapters include: Tricking the World,
Performance Learning Isn’t Desk Learning, Is It
Really Competitive?, Activities for Basic Skills, New
Games, Maximizing Student Involvement, Mime,
Sample Lessons, Appendices and more.
Special Offer!
Buy both Grammar Wars books for $28.75 –
save 15%! Order#R–B455
The Scenebook
for Actors
edited by NORMAN A. BERT
Great monologs and
dialogs from contemporary
and classical theatre
Paperback: $16.95
(256 pages)
Order #R-B177
Somewhere in this book is the perfect monolog or dialog
for your audition. Selections are by many of the world’s
leading playwrights. Sample scenes included are from
Family Voices — Pinter, The Hat — Mamet,
Doonesbury — Trudeau, Man with Bags — Ionesco
and She Stoops to Conquer — Goldsmith. Powerful
moments. Some soft and quiet. Others strident and
commanding. The choices are many. The book
explains how to find the right audition monolog for
your voice, your face, your style, your stage persona.
Valuable tips on how to develop your audition monolog
for performance and how to build a systematic file of
scenes for your personal working repertoire.
The Flip Side II
by HEATHER H. HENDERSON
60 more point-of-view
monologs for teens
Paperback: $15.95
(136 pages)
Order #R-B247
A new collection of tough and timely monolog pairs with
opposing views on many topics. These monologs are
superb for acting exercises, auditions and speech
contests. Each monolog characterization focuses on a
topic of interest to young people today. The book is
divided into three sections: Who We Are, Who We
Were and Who We Pretend to Be. For each topic, the
monologs are paired to allow the presentation of two
differing opinions. The two-minute length of most of
these monologs makes memorization easy. Suitable for
classroom or performance activities. Sample title pairs
include: Health Nut/Candy Lover, Country
Boy/City Slicker, Smarty Pants/Alvin B. Dunce,
Benchwarmer/A Piece of the Action, Goldi vs. The
Bears.
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