This book provides a practical, accessible, and inexpensive guide to using improvisation in drama, which lies at the root of actor training, educational drama and drama therapy, in a wide variety of situations. It is useful for teachers, organizers of drama workshops, therapists and trainers.

First published in 1974, Investigating Drama offers a holistic understanding of drama. An understanding of drama requires far more thana study, however thorough, of plays and playwright, stagecraft and techniques, for drama must always be seen in the context of the theatre at work. A descriptive coverage of the basic elements of drama is accordingly only half the purpose of this book, and the authors hope that their plea in the title for an ‘investigation’ will be taken literally....

Are you a teacher of musical theatre who struggles to plan and construct lessons? Are you looking for a structured approach to teaching musical theatre to students of all abilities? Do you know your Ivor Novello from your Stephen Sondheim?Despite being one of the most popular forms of performance study, Musical Theatre is often the most difficult to teach due to its part-practical and part-academic approach. With few books on the market directly aimed at teachers, it can be a chall...

Jesus is alive and well in theatre. An examination of our rich English tradition of dramatic portrayals of Jesus. Ranges widely from medieval Mystery Plays to Berkoff and from stage to broadcast media.

A call for Christians to reclaim the priority, privilege, and practice of reading.Christians are identified as people of the Word—submitted to the authority of God’s written Word, called to center our lives on it and not on the image-driven world that vies for our gaze. But how do we build such lives, and what do they look like?Tony Reinke’s answer is that we are to be readers of the Word of God and of the many other books that reflect God’s truth, goodness, and be...

Can the cruelty of life ends with the innocence of a child?Jessicas First Prayer is a story of love and forgiveness that has enchanted millions of readers around the world since its first edition.A reading pure and full of grace.A book for parents and children.A message will be brought to life.Prepare to hear this prayer for their souls.

The Allegory of Love is a study in medieval tradition—the rise of both the sentiment called "Courtly Love" and of the allegorical method—from eleventh-century Languedoc through sixteenth-century England. C. S. Lewis devotes considerable attention to The Romance of the Rose and The Faerie Queene, and to such poets as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and Thomas Usk.

This subject opens an absolutely new field for research and study. for those who are deeply interested in obtaining the best and richest of God's provisions for man.Those who have had the privilege of listening to Dr. Kenyon's lectures on this subject have long been asking that they might be put into print.Until now, the way has not been opened whereby this might be done, but the time has at last come when the desire in the hearts of the people is to be granted.The tru...

Here Jesus is portrayed through the words of 77 contemporaries who knew him - enemies and friends: Syrians, Romans, Jews, priests, and poets. This edition restores the original format with 2 paintings and 12 drawings.

Jan van Ruysbroeck - three of whose most important works are here for the first time presented to English readers - is the greatest of the Flemish mystics, and must take high rank in any list of Christian contemplatives and saints. He led a life of asuterity, eventually founding a congregation in Groenendaal. His writings were widely circulated in his lifetime and he influenced an entire generation of Christian mystics. He was beatified on December 1st, 1908, by Pope St. Pius X. The writin...

Keep A True Lentby Charles FillmoreThe New Thought Movement or New Thought is a loosely allied group of organizations, authors, philosophers, and individuals who share a set of metaphysical beliefs concerning healing, life force, Creative Visualization, and personal power. The New Thought Movement developed in the United States during the mid to late 19th century and continues to the present time. It promotes the ideas that God is all powerful and ubiquitous, Spirit is the t...

The author is ernard of Clairvaux, O.Cist (1090 – August 20, 1153) was a Frenchabbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian order. After the death of his mother, Bernard sought admission into the Cistercian order. "Three years later, he was sent to found a new abbey at an isolated clearing in a glen known as the Val d'Absinthe, about 15 km southeast of Bar-sur-Aube. According to tradition, Bernard founded the monastery on 25 June 1115, naming it Claire Vallée, whi...