Start with AARON SHEPARD'S absolutely wonderful, free, ethnically diverse, history-rich, culturally expansive scripts.  I have used his readers' theater scripts as oral reading exercises and even turned a few into stage versions for homeschool groups to produce complete with sets and costuming.  We had a blast, and you will, too!

Does your homeschooler need a monologue or want to develop a repertoire of them for auditioning in live theater?  You'll find everything you could possible want to know about monologues here , including the best resource books for each of the various types.

Two of my favorite titles for introducing the subject are Acting & Theater  and The World of Shakespeare, both done in inimitable Usborne Books style.  They're intermediate-and-up-level books I purchased for our acting library long before I became an Usborne distributor.  Also, check out Stories from Shakespeare for easy-to-understand story summaries of The Bard's works.

Any stage actor worth his/her salt should be able to quote the Bard of Avon.  Find a whole alphabet of Shakespearean quotations -- everything from "A" to "Z."  And profit from all these wonderful (free and very inexpensive) Shakespearean resources at Erskine's homeschool resources Shakespeare center  >  >  >

Theater games are part of the great, great fun of doing theater.  Theater-on-a-Shoestring offers you dozens of really good ones free of charge.            Click here for dozens of free plays (and a few inexpensive ones) that can be performed by your homeschool group.  One freebie I particularly like is "Kiss the Brown Bunny" because it requires only two actors and is a hoot for a couple of older kids to perform for younger ones.

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