Marshall Cassady

Art of Storytelling

Creative Ideas for Preparation and Performance

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Produktbeschreibung

Storytelling is a common form of communication that people engage in nearly every day. When elevated to an art, however, a talented storyteller has a spell-binding ability to bring a story to life. Now you too can learn the art and weave your own magic. The wonderful world of storytelling is revealed in this unique resource manual for both beginners and seasoned performers. Comprehensive in scope, it includes many ideas for finding, writing, adapting and presenting stories. The text is divided into three sections: Choosing Stories to Tell, Developing Original Ideas and Presenting the Story. Story examples and exercises embellish the text throughout and make it very readable. Each chapter concludes with discussion questions and activities. This is a quality comprehensive textbook for oral interpretation. (288 pages, 5¿ x 8¿, paperback)

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Christian Publishers LLC
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9781566080026
• ISBN-10: 1566080029
• Artikelnr.: 21681019

Autorenporträt

Marsh Cassady has written more than forty books including novels, short story and drama collections, haiku, biography, and books on theatre and storytelling. His audio and stage plays have been widely performed (including off-Broadway), and he has written and recorded a three-set audio tape on storytelling. A former actor/director and university professor with a Ph.D. degree in theatre, Cassady has worked with more than a hundred productions. Since 1981, he has conducted an all-genre writing workshop in San Diego and has taught various creative writing classes at UCSD and elsewhere. While teaching at Montclair State in the 1970s, he started a program of workshops, classes and special projects in playwriting. His own writing has won numerous regional and national awards.