(p/b) solo // a guidebook for individual performance

In your final year of drama at school? Need to get an individual performance together? Then Solo is for you. At long last a book designed especially to help you create a powerful and effective performance for your end of school exam.Michael Anderson, a drama teacher with over 15 years' senior drama experience, starts by explaining what will make your individual performance work. He offers tips to help you choose a script and suggests exercises that will develop the skills you need to be successful, including how to enter and use the performance space. Learn how to create a character and prepare for the day of your performance. Along with a wealth of practical advice, Solo brings you a fresh, diverse range of Australian pieces that suit the format for your assessment. They come from a variety of genres and writers, some well-known, others previously unpublished. From Patrick White writing in the 1940s to Kate Mulvany in 2005, there's something here for everybody. So to find out everything you need to know from choosing a script through to delivering it, reach for Solo. (From the publisher)