Theatre for Children: A Guide to Writing, Adapting, Directing, and Acting
- ISBN-10
- 1461664497
- ISBN-13
- 9781461664499
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999-03-15
- Publisher
- Ivan R. Dee
- Authors
- David Wood, Janet Grant
Description
One of the world's leading children's dramatists provides a practical handbook of the skills involved in entertaining and involving audiences of children. A marvelous contribution to the world of Youth Theater...a must. —Robyn Flatt, Dallas Children's Theater. He has often been called the National Playwright for Children and he deserves it. —Cameron Mackintosh
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- 1999
- 248 pages
- Paperback
- Rowman & Littlefield
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