Table of Contents

Foreword

Part 1

1. How to Use This Book
2. Know Your Students: The Skills Audit
3. Which Play? Guiding Students in Choosing the Best Material
4. Design Options
5. Performance Exams: Everything You Need to Know for a Smoothly Run Professional Exam
6. Performance Spaces: Intimate or Epic?
7. The Skills of the Actor: Language of the Theatre
8. Shakespeare

Part 2

200 plays

Index

Promotional Information

A drama teacher's guide to finding and staging the best performance material for the whole range of student abilities and requirements for 15 - 18 year olds.

About the Author

Jason Hanlan has built and led a drama department in a secondary school in Surrey, UK, and has been Head of a Performing Arts faculty in a large 11-18 state school in Royal Berkshire. During this time, he was also LEA advisor for Surrey secondary drama and Lead Teacher for Drama in Berkshire. He has worked for AQA drama GCSE as a moderator and senior moderator for 12 years. As part of this role he has been Coursework Advisor for teachers of GCSE Drama throughout the UK. He has been a senior moderator for AQA Performing Arts for four years and run teacher inset and training for Keynote Education, Lighthouse and Surrey county council. He is currently Profesor De Teatro at Colegio Las Candelas in Mendoza, Argentina. He also runs teacher training courses in Drama and English Literature in universities and foundations in Mendoza. Jason Hanlan is a member of National Drama, the UK’s leading subject association for drama teachers and theatre educators.

Reviews

This book reads like a welcome conversation with an experienced colleague in the staffroom, and it is full of insights. ... it'll sit close by on your shelf to delve in and out of for years.
*Drama & Theatre Magazine*