One on One: Playing with a Purpose by Bob Shuman

One on One: Playing with a Purpose by Bob Shuman

(Applause Acting Series). Kids of today face a different world and a different set of challenges then did the children of even 15 years ago. Playing with a Purpose features a collection of monologues that reflects these new attitudes and circumstances. Highly diversified in its view of the family and the child's place in the world, the monologues have been chosen from several sources: from contemporary playwrights and screenwriters; from YouthPlays, a new company that specializes in publishing cutting-edge plays for the youth market; and from such conservatories for young actors as The Playground, the Los Angeles-based training center run by Gary Spatz, the leading acting coach for performers ages 6 to 16. Playing with a purpose is an idea that arose from Fife's work with young actors over the course of several decades. The included monologues have been chosen and arranged to allow for a young actor's development. From Getting Started: Simple Situations and Circumstances to Intermediate: Adding Elements of Character to Advanced: Character Counts, each chapter includes pieces that will test the young actor's ability, while making use of the lessons presented in each.

Stephen Fife, MFA, (Santa Monica, CA) has written extensively about actor training for the New York Times, Village Voice, American Theatre, and many other publications; he has also worked with kids as an acting teacher/coach, writing teacher, and stage director over a period of 37 years, in a variety of different formats and programs in the New York City and Los Angeles areas. For the last five years, he has worked directly with kids in his company, the Young Actors Workshop., Bob Shuman, MFA, (New York, NY) is the owner of the Marit Literary Agency and the theater website Stage Voices, as well as a publisher, a playwright, and currently a professor at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in the Bronx. Shuman is coeditor of Duo!: The Best Scenes for Two for the 21st Century, and more., Eloise Rollins-Fife is a student at the Archer School For Girls., Marit Shuman (New York, NY) attends the Horace Mann School.

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ISBN 13	9781557838414
ISBN 10	1557838410
Title	One on One: Playing with a Purpose
Author	Bob Shuman
Series	Applause Acting Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Hal Leonard Corporation
Year published	2013-05-01
Number of pages	248
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