Chapter One
First You Sit On The Floor
How much time do you have to commit to the project? Who are your actors? What are your resources? What are your qualifications? Where to work? Getting Started! Chapter Two
Where and Beyond.
Plan: initial workshop.
Chapter Three
What's in a name?
Skills needed for a functional group.
Chapter Four
Training your actors.
Roy G. Biv and the Seven Emotions. The Alchemy of Acting. Get the actors out of their own way. Plan: Second Workshop Session.
Chapter Five
Producing
What does a producer do? Production/Event budgets. Recording services rendered. Grants, Foundations and Fundraising. Touring. Tailoring your show to the audience.
Chapter Six
Multi-Media
Placards, signs and banners. Bludoobludoobludoo: The power of flashbacks Video,high tech and low tech. Scenario Exerpt: using multi-media effects.
Chapter Seven
Structuring a Performance Piece
Performance for primary students. About Transitions. Curtains. Lights. Auditory transitions. Other visual ideas. The Spine. Dramatic Structure in a post-Aristotelian world. How do you arrive at your plot? Recycling:. take an Elizabethan approach
Chapter Eight
Equipment
Props. Stage Boxes and scenery.
Chapter Nine
In the Institution
Rules and Boundaries. Keep It Simple. Dance is universal. Trust exercises in the institution.
Chapter Ten
Exercises
A collection of exercises of particular interest, with sources.