A five-time Moth GrandSLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story — and why doing so matters. Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.

A large-scale reference work covering the journalism industry in 19th-Century Britain.

Thirteen-year-old Nathalie Vaughan struggles to save friends and neighbours on the night of Canada's Frank Slide disaster.

A first book for middle school readers by the author of Little Troll finds young Mouse's privileged and carefree life shattered by his relocation at the hands of the villainous Mr. Button to grim Murstone Hall school, where Mouse receives help from an eclectic cast of characters while struggling to return to his family. Reprint.

(Book). The Actor as Storyteller is intended for serious beginning actors. It opens with an overview, explaining the differences between theater and its hybrid mediums, the part an actor plays in each of those mediums. It moves on to the acting craft itself, with a special emphasis on analysis and choice-making, introducing the concept of the actor as storyteller, then presents the specific tools an actor works with. Next, it details the process an actor can use to prepare for scene work and rehearsals, complete with a working plan for using the tools discussed. The book concludes with a discussion of mental preparation, suggestions for auditioning, a process for rehearsing a play, and an overview of the realities of show business. Included in this updated edition are: A detailed examination of script analysis of the overall play and of individual scenes; A sample of an actor's script, filled with useful script notations; Two new short plays, one written especially for this text; Updated references, lists of plays, and recommended further reading

In a volume containing 14 original plays – including three shadow-play adaptions of Gogol, Morton and Runyon classics – the author resurrects a sadly neglected theatre genre – the shadow play combining traditional shadow techniques with normal acting to create ‘full-bodied’ mainstream plays.

Richard Feynman was a Nobel prize-winning physicist. Catherine is a science-loving 15-year-old. Richard helped build the atom bomb. Catherine's just trying to survive school. When your life is falling apart around you, is talking to a dead physicist normal? Catherine thinks so, but it isn't until her life begins unraveling that she learns who she can really trust.

The Storyteller is a sweet and lovely tale about Curtis and Penny Hansin who, over the years, due to the many responsibilities which they now have, as well as trying to keep up with the daunting challenges that come with family life, have forgotten the importance of not only remembering the events of the past but also passing on those ancestral stories to the next generation. That is, until ten-year-old little Samuel reminds them. And so, after being taught by his great-grandmother Abigail from the moment he could speak, Sam makes use of his strong determined will, which he inherited from her. And with the heart of an explorer and the soul of a storyteller, he is determined to prove to his parents just how important it is to keep the conversation going. So sit back and watch how the past makes its way into the present while on its way toward the future. Streaking across timelines and long-ago memories like a comet. Carrying within its tail the many colorful souls whose dreams were once realized and whose lives were lived and who, by the gift of storytelling, will never be forgotten.

Marion Amberg, an award-winning freelance journalist and photographer, specializes in religion and human-interest topics. Before launching her freelance career twenty years ago, she edited and published a small-town weekly paper. Her work has appeared in more than 100 publications, ranging from Catholic Digest to Liguorian to Texas Highways. A number of her religious features have been cover stories on national magazines.