What do you look for in a Drama and/or Stagecraft self-help book?

Question

I have taught high school and junior high school Drama for more than 20 years and have produced and directed school plays on a number of stages. I also am considering writing a self-help book for school Drama and community Drama groups. My experiences include recruiting and making Drama accessible to a wide range of students, building quality sets on a budget, use of lighting and sound equipment and a lot more. I learned basics of the craft in college but had to re-learn lots of things to make Drama work in school and in the community. I had to buy a lot of books to glean a few good new ideas and think I could write a better school and community theatre self-help book. So, what do you look for in a Drama self-help book?

Answer 1

Forget it. With your teaching experience you need to write a book based on your teaching skills. Don't copy others. Be true to yourself. You will write a best seller.

Answer 2

Well its an excellent idea. We are truly lacking in good books on both the subjects .

1) Drama - we have two aspects, the right hand side and the left hand side .

in the right hand we try to learn to imagine the character that we re going to portray. How best we can truly identify with the character.

In the left hand side we learn to work properly our tongue, proper diction, develop a good memory, different intonations, different walks, mimes etc..

A proper culture of the both will have gone far in your course in dramatics.

2) For the stagecraft  self-help book is also a must. this consists :

i)  of the  mike and recording section with proper arragements for slides and even movie projection on the back - drop.

ii) A revolving stage

iii) proper lighting equipments with flood and focus lights. We would like to have even different colour lighting.

iv) A whole set of curtains , some painted andothers even transparent or muslin like.

v) a good green room facilities of make-up equipment

vi) A department of costumes .

I have got a few sites and links from Google :

PERFORMING ARTS, Theater / Stagecraft, , - Landmark Bookstore ...PERFORMING ARTS, Theater / Stagecraft, , - Landmark Bookstore online - fiction, management, self-help, law, medical, religion: Powered by Rediff Books ...

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Resources by Subject - GeneralThe database covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry, including such areas as dance, film, television, drama, theatre, stagecraft, ...

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