Despite the popular myth that plays arrive at the theater fully formed and ready for production, the truth is that for centuries, most scripts have been developed through a collaborative process in rehearsal and in concert with other theater artists. David Kahn and Donna Breed provide the first codified approach to this time-honored method of play development, with a flexible methodology that takes into account differing environments and various stages of formation. Directors can use this unique guidebook for new play development from the beginning to the end of the process. Kahn and Breed explore ways of choosing new projects, talk about where to find new scripts, and explore the legal aspects of script development. They present a detailed system for theatrical analysis of the new script and show how to continue exploration and development of the script within the laboratory of the theater. Most importantly, they delineate the parameters of the relationship between the director and the playwright, offering proven methods to help the playwright and help facilitate the healthy development of the script. Breed and Kahn offer suggestions on casting, incorporating rewrites, and script handling plus how and when to use audience response and how to decide what step to take next. They also include extended interviews with developmental directors, dramaturgs, and playwrights, who give credence to the new script development process. In short, Kahn and Breed demystify a common, though often convoluted, theater process, providing a unique codification of ways to work on new plays.

Directors can use this unique guidebook for new play development from the beginning to the end of the process. Kahn and Breed explore ways of choosing new projects, talk about where to find new scripts, and explore the legal aspects of script development. They present a detailed system for theatrical analysis of the new script and show how to continue exploration and development of the script within the laboratory of the theatre. Most importantly, they delineate the parameters of the relationship between the director and the playwright, offering proven methods to help the playwright and to facilitate the healthy development of the script. Kahn and Breed offer suggestions on casting, incorporating rewrites, and script handling plus how and when to use audience response and how to decide what step to take next. They also include extended interviews with developmental directors, dramaturgs, and playwrights, who give credence to the new script development process.

These drama pieces support the emphasis on drama, speaking and listening in the English National Curriculum at KS3, as well as to provide links to citizenship studies. From many genres, the pieces are suitable for role play, examining points of view and collaborative work.

Academic Library Website Benchmarks is based on data from more than 80 academic libraries in the USA and Canada. The 125+ page study presents detailed data on the composition of the academic library web staff, relations with the college and library information technology departments, use of consultants and freelancers, budgets, future plans, website marketing methods, website revision plans, usage statistics, use of software, development of federated search and online forms and much more. Data is broken out by enrollment size, public and private status, Carnegie Class, as well as for libraries with or without their own web staff.

Protect, maintain and boost your positive energy around the clock. Power Up brings together multiple popular self-care and wellbeing practices in one place: how to cleanse and protect your aura; the power of daily affirmations ad mantras; how breathing techniques can help you feel engaged and energized; and the ability to change the narrative by using visualisation and manifestation. With bitesized exercises that are easy to incorporate into busy schedules, tips on little boosts to help pick you up throughout the day, and a handy Daily Energy Clock, Power Up will help create positive habits which are easy to stick to for a lasting impact on your daily energy levels.

Alaska has long been a nurturing home for artists, with its stunning natural beauty, rich cultural life, and unique communities. In recent years, artists in Alaska have had an additional source of support: the awarding of annual grants to craftsmen, musicians, performers, visual artists, and writers by the Rasmuson Foundation. Creative Alaska profiles the award winners from 2004 to 2013 in three categories: Distinguished Artists, Fellowships, and Project Awards. Richly illustrated accounts of each of the artists and their work illuminate the challenges and opportunities of the artistic life in Alaska and the powerful impact of the Rasmuson Foundation’s support.

What does it mean to program with confidence? How do you build self-testing software? What even is a test, anyway? Bestselling Go writer and teacher John Arundel tackles these questions, and many more, in his follow-up to the highly successful The Power of Go: Tools. Welcome to the thrilling world of fuzzy mutants and spies, guerilla testing, mocks and crocks, design smells, mirage tests, deep abstractions, exploding pointers, sentinels and six-year-old astronauts, coverage ratchets and golden files, singletons and walking skeletons, canaries and smelly suites, flaky tests and concurrent callbacks, fakes, CRUD methods, infinite defects, brittle tests, wibbly-wobby timey-wimey stuff, adapters and ambassadors, tests that fail only at midnight, and gremlins that steal from the player during the hours of darkness. “If you get fired as a result of applying the advice in this book, then that’s probably for the best, all things considered. But if it happens, I’ll make it my personal mission to get you a job with a better company: one where people are rewarded, not punished, for producing software that actually works.” Go’s built-in support for testing puts tests front and centre of any software project, from command-line tools to sophisticated backend servers and APIs. This accessible, amusing book will introduce you to all Go’s testing facilities, show you how to use them to write tests for the trickiest things, and distils the collected wisdom of the Go community on best practices for testing Go programs. Crammed with hundreds of code examples, the book uses real tests and real problems to show you exactly what to do, step by step. You’ll learn how to use tests to design programs that solve user problems, how to build reliable codebases on solid foundations, and how tests can help you tackle horrible, bug-riddled legacy codebases and make them a nicer place to live. From choosing informative, behaviour-focused names for your tests to clever, powerful techniques for managing test dependencies like databases and concurrent servers, The Power of Go: Tests has everything you need to master the art of testing in Go.

This report looks closely at how academic libraries are re-shaping their websites. The study is based on a survey of 56 academic library web staffs with data broken out by size and type of academic institution and other criteria. The 160 page study gives exhaustive data about academic library preferences in areas such as use of mashups, library social media sites, website staff and budgets, role of the college and library IT staffs, governance of the website, content entry policies, relations with the college IT and web staff, branding issues, college web conformity issues, preferences in content management systems, programming and scripting, division of web staff time among various priorities, use of blogs, listservs, email newsletters, rss feeds and other communication vehicles, use of and plans for federated search, search box presentation strategy, and use of cascading style sheets. The study also covers ease of use issues for library staff focusing on how easy it is to perform certain website-related tasks such as entry of the same content to multiple site locations, ease of inserting and positioning videos, and ease of inserting tabular materials, among other tasks. Other issues covered include but are not limited to: use of freelancers and consultants, sources of advice, use of social bookmarking tools and much more.