Nerds

Product Code: N62000

Approx. Run Time: 60 min.

Sixteen-year-old Gillian is a nerd, a misfit, totally uncool who sees herself as fat, ugly and a social cripple. Throughout this play, Gillian takes us on a funny, excruciating journey through the world of adolescent anguish and awkwardness. She finds it hard to cope with her bright gung-ho sister, her gossipy girlfriends, her addiction to chocolate, and her desperate quest to be beautiful and popular. So when she develops a crush on the school heartthrob and finds herself on a blind date with a mega-nerd, Gillian feels pushed to the edge. But in a surprise ending, Gillian triumphs with an exhilarating moment of self-awareness and confidence.

Adjudicating Theatre Performance: Responding to Competitions and Festivals

Product Code: AD1000

Veteran educator Dean Slusser brings his insight and experience to the purpose and philosophy of theatre adjudication, addressing the difference between competitions and festivals, the adjudicator's role in each and the evolution of "professional" adjudication. In this handbook for adjudicators at every level of experience, he offers a comprehensive discussion of approaches used in a variety of professional organizations such as the American Association for Community Theatre, the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival, the Texas Educational Theatre Association and others.

In Their Own Words: Drama With Young English Language Learners

Product Code: IA1000

In this book, Dan Kelin provides detailed strategies for exploring language and communication through drama, as well as springboards to success through story making, reader's theater, and improvisational plays leading to informal performance. A selection of delightful short tales from around the world, ideal for drama, add to the richness of this material.

Teaching Teachers to Use Drama

Product Code: TK1000

With the emphasis on standards of learning and test scores, it's harder than ever to keep the arts in the elementary classroom. But as some options dry up, others blossom. Currently arts specialists are being called on to share their expertise with education majors and teachers, bringing the arts to a wider range of children through daily school activities.

Breaking Through: Drama Strategies for 10's to 15's

Product Code: BD5000

Have you noticed how the very children who, at 5 or 8 or so, were spontaneous and articulate and imaginative suddenly become, on the threshold of adolescence, sullen or silent, bored or supercilious? No group is so hard to reach. People who work with this age group need all the help they can get. Breaking Through is the handbook to give you just that help. It provides theater games well suited to channel the energies and capture the imagination of 10s to 15s.