CCPA Fast Track 2007 Textbook list

2007 Fast Track Text and Reading List

Scenic Design Rick Paul
Dear Brutus by J.M. Barrie
Samuel French
Costume Design Nan Zabriski
The Magic Garment, Principles of Costume Design, Rebecca Cunningham, 1989
Sound Design Joe Cerqua
Metropolitan Operas 27 Short Plays by Joe Pintauro
Listed on Amazon
Viewpoints Mary Overlie and Tanya Kane Perry
Training the American Actor, Arthur Bartow, editor, ISBN 1-55936-268-5
Read chapter, Six Viewpoints, by Mary Overlie
Stage Combat Neil Massey
No Text Required
Literary Adaptation Christine Mary Dunford and David Kersnar
The Viewpoints Book, Anne Bogart and Tina Landau
Theatre Communications Group 2005
*For ways of working with actors, composition and staging material
Chamber Theatre, Robert S. Breen
Wm. Caxton LTD 1986
*For theory and practical ways of adapting and staging fiction (and non-fiction)
Games for Actors and Non-actors, Augusto Boal
Translated by Adrian Jackson
Routledge 1992
*For working with actors/students and developing performance material
Great Reckonings in Little Rooms, Bert O. States
University of California Press 1985
*For phenomenology of theater and performance
Improvisation for the Theatre, Viola Spolin
Northwestern University Press 1983
*For working with actors/students and developing material
Literature and Its Writers: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
Compact Second Edition, Ann Charter, Samuel Charters
Bedford / St. Martins 2001
*Source for fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Most teachers have something equivalent.
Theatre for Community Conflict & Dialogue, Michael Rohd
Heinemann 1998
*For working with students/actors as well as developing and staging issue-based material