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Hello. We have used THE STAGE AND THE SCHOOL for at least 30 years as a support text in our theatre classroom. It is a useful text but appears to not have been updated since app. 2002. I am having trouble finding new material to integrate into a four-year theatre program.

My district is willing to update so I need recommendations. I am wondering if others use an alternate foundational text in their theatre classroom. Maybe there are college textbooks that might work.

I know theatre is an active classroom and not especially text dependent. But we need some support material for our four-year program.

Here is the list I currently have but none of them are especially comprehensive like a text book would be:

• The Stanislavski System: The Professional Training of An Actor by Sonia Moore (this is a condensed version of the Stans system that is much easier for HS students)
• Respect for Acting by Uta Hagen
• Stanford Meisner on Acting by Stanford Meisner 
• Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays by David Ball
• Acting One by Robert Cohen (I know you use this one!)
• Freeing the Natural Voice by Kristen Linklater
• Ghostlight: An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy by Michael Chemers

Please throw any additional titles my direction so I can check them out. Thanks in advance.

mark

Hello. We have used THE STAGE AND THE SCHOOL for at least 30 years as a support text in our theatre classroom. It is a useful text but appears to not have been updated since app. 2002. I am having trouble finding new material to integrate into a four-year theatre program.

My district is willing to update so I need recommendations. I am wondering if others use an alternate foundational text in their theatre classroom. Maybe there are college textbooks that might work.

I know theatre is an active classroom and not especially text dependent. But we need some support material for our four-year program.

Here is the list I currently have but none of them are especially comprehensive like a text book would be:

• The Stanislavski System: The Professional Training of An Actor by Sonia Moore (this is a condensed version of the Stans system that is much easier for HS students)
• Respect for Acting by Uta Hagen
• Stanford Meisner on Acting by Stanford Meisner 
• Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays by David Ball
• Acting One by Robert Cohen (I know you use this one!)
• Freeing the Natural Voice by Kristen Linklater
• Ghostlight: An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy by Michael Chemers

Please throw any additional titles my direction so I can check them out. Thanks in advance.

mark

One that I really like for Intro Theatre is Basic Drama Projects, 9th ed. (there may be a newer edition now. This is a few years old.) It's from Perfection Learning. It's also a good text for the practicality of teaching theatre. I often am pulled in a hundred different directions throughout the school day and have to rely on a lot of self-guided projects for my students, so this text helps facilitate that. 

Hello. We have used THE STAGE AND THE SCHOOL for at least 30 years as a support text in our theatre classroom. It is a useful text but appears to not have been updated since app. 2002. I am having trouble finding new material to integrate into a four-year theatre program.

My district is willing to update so I need recommendations. I am wondering if others use an alternate foundational text in their theatre classroom. Maybe there are college textbooks that might work.

I know theatre is an active classroom and not especially text dependent. But we need some support material for our four-year program.

Here is the list I currently have but none of them are especially comprehensive like a text book would be:

• The Stanislavski System: The Professional Training of An Actor by Sonia Moore (this is a condensed version of the Stans system that is much easier for HS students)
• Respect for Acting by Uta Hagen
• Stanford Meisner on Acting by Stanford Meisner 
• Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays by David Ball
• Acting One by Robert Cohen (I know you use this one!)
• Freeing the Natural Voice by Kristen Linklater
• Ghostlight: An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy by Michael Chemers

Please throw any additional titles my direction so I can check them out. Thanks in advance.

mark

One that I really like for Intro Theatre is Basic Drama Projects, 9th ed. (there may be a newer edition now. This is a few years old.) It's from Perfection Learning. It's also a good text for the practicality of teaching theatre. I often am pulled in a hundred different directions throughout the school day and have to rely on a lot of self-guided projects for my students, so this text helps facilitate that. 

Hello. We have used THE STAGE AND THE SCHOOL for at least 30 years as a support text in our theatre classroom. It is a useful text but appears to not have been updated since app. 2002. I am having trouble finding new material to integrate into a four-year theatre program.

My district is willing to update so I need recommendations. I am wondering if others use an alternate foundational text in their theatre classroom. Maybe there are college textbooks that might work.

I know theatre is an active classroom and not especially text dependent. But we need some support material for our four-year program.

Here is the list I currently have but none of them are especially comprehensive like a text book would be:

• The Stanislavski System: The Professional Training of An Actor by Sonia Moore (this is a condensed version of the Stans system that is much easier for HS students)
• Respect for Acting by Uta Hagen
• Stanford Meisner on Acting by Stanford Meisner 
• Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays by David Ball
• Acting One by Robert Cohen (I know you use this one!)
• Freeing the Natural Voice by Kristen Linklater
• Ghostlight: An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy by Michael Chemers

Please throw any additional titles my direction so I can check them out. Thanks in advance.

mark

Hello. We have used THE STAGE AND THE SCHOOL for at least 30 years as a support text in our theatre classroom. It is a useful text but appears to not have been updated since app. 2002. I am having trouble finding new material to integrate into a four-year theatre program.

My district is willing to update so I need recommendations. I am wondering if others use an alternate foundational text in their theatre classroom. Maybe there are college textbooks that might work.

I know theatre is an active classroom and not especially text dependent. But we need some support material for our four-year program.

Here is the list I currently have but none of them are especially comprehensive like a text book would be:

• The Stanislavski System: The Professional Training of An Actor by Sonia Moore (this is a condensed version of the Stans system that is much easier for HS students)
• Respect for Acting by Uta Hagen
• Stanford Meisner on Acting by Stanford Meisner 
• Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays by David Ball
• Acting One by Robert Cohen (I know you use this one!)
• Freeing the Natural Voice by Kristen Linklater
• Ghostlight: An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy by Michael Chemers

Please throw any additional titles my direction so I can check them out. Thanks in advance.

mark

Hello. We have used THE STAGE AND THE SCHOOL for at least 30 years as a support text in our theatre classroom. It is a useful text but appears to not have been updated since app. 2002. I am having trouble finding new material to integrate into a four-year theatre program.

My district is willing to update so I need recommendations. I am wondering if others use an alternate foundational text in their theatre classroom. Maybe there are college textbooks that might work.

I know theatre is an active classroom and not especially text dependent. But we need some support material for our four-year program.

Here is the list I currently have but none of them are especially comprehensive like a text book would be:

• The Stanislavski System: The Professional Training of An Actor by Sonia Moore (this is a condensed version of the Stans system that is much easier for HS students)
• Respect for Acting by Uta Hagen
• Stanford Meisner on Acting by Stanford Meisner 
• Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays by David Ball
• Acting One by Robert Cohen (I know you use this one!)
• Freeing the Natural Voice by Kristen Linklater
• Ghostlight: An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy by Michael Chemers

Please throw any additional titles my direction so I can check them out. Thanks in advance.

mark

Hello. We have used THE STAGE AND THE SCHOOL for at least 30 years as a support text in our theatre classroom. It is a useful text but appears to not have been updated since app. 2002. I am having trouble finding new material to integrate into a four-year theatre program.

My district is willing to update so I need recommendations. I am wondering if others use an alternate foundational text in their theatre classroom. Maybe there are college textbooks that might work.

I know theatre is an active classroom and not especially text dependent. But we need some support material for our four-year program.

Here is the list I currently have but none of them are especially comprehensive like a text book would be:

• The Stanislavski System: The Professional Training of An Actor by Sonia Moore (this is a condensed version of the Stans system that is much easier for HS students)
• Respect for Acting by Uta Hagen
• Stanford Meisner on Acting by Stanford Meisner 
• Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays by David Ball
• Acting One by Robert Cohen (I know you use this one!)
• Freeing the Natural Voice by Kristen Linklater
• Ghostlight: An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy by Michael Chemers

Please throw any additional titles my direction so I can check them out. Thanks in advance.

mark

Hello. We have used THE STAGE AND THE SCHOOL for at least 30 years as a support text in our theatre classroom. It is a useful text but appears to not have been updated since app. 2002. I am having trouble finding new material to integrate into a four-year theatre program.

My district is willing to update so I need recommendations. I am wondering if others use an alternate foundational text in their theatre classroom. Maybe there are college textbooks that might work.

I know theatre is an active classroom and not especially text dependent. But we need some support material for our four-year program.

Here is the list I currently have but none of them are especially comprehensive like a text book would be:

• The Stanislavski System: The Professional Training of An Actor by Sonia Moore (this is a condensed version of the Stans system that is much easier for HS students)
• Respect for Acting by Uta Hagen
• Stanford Meisner on Acting by Stanford Meisner 
• Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays by David Ball
• Acting One by Robert Cohen (I know you use this one!)
• Freeing the Natural Voice by Kristen Linklater
• Ghostlight: An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy by Michael Chemers

Please throw any additional titles my direction so I can check them out. Thanks in advance.

mark