NEW BOOKS BY AATE MEMBERSBreak a Leg: Tips and Truisms for Theatre Teachers by Gai Jones is a fun, spirited look at our profession and wonderful, applicable tips which we can share with students. AATE members purchasing the book will receive a conference rate discount price. Go to http://www.gaijones.com/ for more information and/or to order.
The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers by Johnny Saldaña is unique in providing, in one volume, an in-depth guide to each of the multiple approaches available for coding qualitative data. Twenty-nine different approaches to coding are covered, ranging in complexity from fundamental to advanced levels, and including everything from interview transcripts to field notes. For each approach profiled, Johnny Saldaña discusses the method’s origins in the professional literature, a description of the method, recommendations for practical applications, and a clearly illustrated example. Also included is an introduction to how codes and coding initiate qualitative data analysis, their applications with qualitative data analysis software, the writing of supplemental analytic memos, and recommendations for how to best use the manual for particular studies. This book is an invaluable reference for all students, teachers, and practitioners of qualitative inquiry, and a useful textbook for beginning and advanced qualitative research methods courses in such disciplines as education, sociology, communication, anthropology, psychology, and health care. Find out more at Sage Publications.
Richard Carter of Community Shakespeare has written an adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing. It is sixth in the series of verse adaptations of Shakespeare's play, all written by Richard and developed by Community Shakespeare's youth theatre company. The others are As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Running times are 69 - 90 minutes. You can learn more and order here.
Dutch Theatre for Children by Manon van de Water contains three contemporary cutting-edge plays from a country notable for extending the boundaries of theatre for young audiences. In the first, "Hibernation" by Heleen Verburg, Jack (in a cozy hole), her parents, and her only friend, a stick insect named Brochitis, sleep the winter and summer away--but Jack wants to wake up. The second, "The House of Dreams," concept and direction by Moniek Merkz, text by Jan Veldman, contains n extraordinary cast of characters, rarely found in theatre for young people, who take their audience on a tour through a house that includes hallways, stairs, courtyards, a love room, and, ultimately, a theatre. The third, "On the Other Side" by Roel Adam, examines how the Old Bridge and the River, shattered by war, are both reality and metaphor to two children on opposite sides and cultures who try to make sense of their postwar world. The volume includes an overview of the theatre scene in the Netherlands, interviews with the authors, production photographs, and accounts of productions of the plays in their home theatres and in the United States. The book is available online through New Plays for Children.
Drama Activities for K-6 Students: Creating Classroom Spirit by Milton Polsky, Dorothy Napp Schindel and Carmine Tabone, is an important new addition to your arsenal of hands-on accessible guides. Published by Rowman and Littlefield Education, this 'peace education through drama handbook' focuses on classic and original stories, myths, poems, paintings and familiar writings that embody themes of peace. Expert ideas for transforming these varied works into plays and other dramatic activities are presented by the authors, all of whom are nationally recognized drama specialists. Conflict resolution, bullying, caring and sharing, inter-cultural understanding, cooperation and collaboration, are explored through hundreds of imaginative strategies developed and tested in classrooms throughout the New York City metropolitan area and beyond. Published in hard cover and paper back both here and in England, and targeted to classroom teachers, community leaders and drama specialists, the book is available through the publisher at: www.rowmaneducation.com/ISBN/1578864445 or at www.amazon.com. Or contact Dorothy at dnschindel@gmail.com OR Carmine at cvtab@aol.com.
Accompany Publishing, a recognized leader in integrated class plays and theater activities for teaching core curriculum, proudly announces the publication of the Stage Learning Series. Authored by Joey Madia, teaching-artist and award-winning playwright, this set of four books provides strategies and activities for bringing drama into the classroom to enhance reading, writing, leadership, creativity, team-building, and critical thinking skills. Packed with theatre games, exercises, and both short- and long-term class projects, the Stage Learning Series will help to bring fun and creativity into core subjects for more engagement and a better result. For more information, please visit http://www.accompanypublishing.com/stagelearningseries.html
Announcing the publication of a new anthology by Adam Blatner, Interactive and Improvisational Drama: Varieties of Applied Theatre and Performance. A number of AATE members are contributors, including Allison Downey, Daniel Kelin II, Gus Weltsek, and others. Check out the book's website:www.interactiveimprov.com/ or http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-41750-7 to purchase the book online.
In this anthology, thirty-two innovators share their approaches for ways people can use nonscripted and interactive drama in community-building, education, personal and social empowerment, therapy, and recreation. For drama students, their teachers, educators, actors, community workers, therapists, and even those in general population who like theatre.
