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This updated and revised edition of Shakespeare’s Heartbeat offers a step-by-step guide detailing how to demonstrate, play and perform sensory games based on two of Shakespeare’s most popular plays designed for autistic people of all ages. The original games of heartbeats, eye contact and spatial awareness were created at the Glebe School, Beckenham, with a group of twelve autistic teenagers who met and played with Kelly Hunter once a week over three years, 2002-2005. This second edition brings the book up to date with the additional knowledge Kelly Hunter has gained since then as the founding artistic director of Flute Theatre, the world’s only Shakespearean troupe to focus on the needs of autistic audiences. The book includes the following:A new chapter dedicated to performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest with autistic audiences, including Hunter’s adapted, interactive performance texts of both plays.A new resource for playing with younger autistic children and their families.A new resource for playing with those who require a lower demand approach.A new chapter with targets and techniques to understand the autism puzzle more clearly.New games based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest which have been created over the last ten years, in addition to the original games detailed in the first edition.This book provides an indispensable learning tool for theatre practitioners, drama students, applied theatre students, teachers, autistic people and their families.

Their scandalous deal! Billionaire Alessio can think of nothing worse than attending another fraught family event alone. So, upon finding Nicola moonlighting as a waitress to make ends meet, he strikes a bargain with her. He’ll pay this innocent to accompany him to Italy…as his girlfriend! A connection that’s impossible to hide from! When his helicopter crashes, a captivating stranger keeps Reid alive. Under the cover of darkness a desperate intimacy is kindled. So when Reid is rescued, and his Cinderella saviour disappears, he knows he won’t rest until he finds her!

An imperfect arrangement Royal assistant Hester knows playboy Prince Alek is totally out of her league. Then shockingly, out of the blue, he proposes a marriage of convenience! In return, she’ll have millions to help disadvantaged women. But their startling chemistry takes them by surprise! Alek sees the Queen that Hester could truly become—but the real question is, can she?•Aram Nazaryan needs one thing to claim the high-powered position he craves: the perfect wife. Although he isn’t a man to take orders, this billionaire longs to return home to the desert kingdom Zohayd. If it means marrying Kanza Aal Ajmaan…could that be a price he’s willing to pay? But then Kanza learns the truth. She may have married for love, but Aram’s vows are tainted by ambition. Will betrayal and mistrust end this too-convenient union?•King Theodosius must find a queen to keep his throne, but his less-than-romantic proposal letter leaves Princess Moriana ice cold. So, he decides to make her an offer she can’t refuse. If Moriana will consider becoming his bride, Theo will heat things up by initiating his innocent queen into the pleasures of the marriage bed…

Two warring households…can marriage unite them?The Visconti and Blackwood feud has spanned generations. So when heiress Evelina and billionaire Domenico are stranded together on a remote island they expect friction—not instant, soul-burning chemistry! Eve surrenders to it, vowing never to reveal their sin… Then the age-old rivalry threatens to destroy her family. Now, to ensure a truce, she must do the unthinkable… Marry her enemy! A royal revelation! The reappearance of Princess Claudia, kidnapped as a child, shocks everyone! Especially King’s aide Tomas, still tortured by guilt over not saving her all those years ago. Stunned by the beautiful woman Claudia’s become, he refuses to surrender to his red-hot attraction—until it boils over into a scorching night of passion. Now Claudia has news for the man who considers her utterly forbidden: she’s pregnant…

This updated and revised edition of Shakespeare’s Heartbeat offers a step-by-step guide detailing how to demonstrate, play and perform sensory games based on two of Shakespeare’s most popular plays designed for autistic people of all ages. The original games of heartbeats, eye contact and spatial awareness were created at the Glebe School, Beckenham, with a group of twelve autistic teenagers who met and played with Kelly Hunter once a week over three years, 2002-2005. This second edition brings the book up to date with the additional knowledge Kelly Hunter has gained since then as the founding artistic director of Flute Theatre, the world’s only Shakespearean troupe to focus on the needs of autistic audiences. The book includes the following:A new chapter dedicated to performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest with autistic audiences, including Hunter’s adapted, interactive performance texts of both plays.A new resource for playing with younger autistic children and their families.A new resource for playing with those who require a lower demand approach.A new chapter with targets and techniques to understand the autism puzzle more clearly.New games based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest which have been created over the last ten years, in addition to the original games detailed in the first edition.This book provides an indispensable learning tool for theatre practitioners, drama students, applied theatre students, teachers, autistic people and their families.

Children on the autistic spectrum experience varying degrees of difficulties; all of which can be understood as a disassociation of mind and body. Expressing feelings, making eye contact, keeping a steady heartbeat and recognizing faces are all part of the autism dilemma which can be explored through Shakespeare’s plays, because of the wealth of his poetic definitions of seeing, thinking and loving.Over ten years, Hunter worked with children on all points of the spectrum, developing drama games for the specific purpose of combating autism. Shakespeare’s Heartbeat is a step-by-step guide, detailing how to demonstrate, play and share these sensory games.The book includes:• games based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest• tips and advice for playing one-on-one with the children.This book provides an indispensable learning tool for those wishing to encourage children’s eye contact and facial expression, improve their spatial awareness and language skills and introduce them to imaginative play.

Children on the autistic spectrum experience varying degrees of difficulties; all of which can be understood as a disassociation of mind and body. Expressing feelings, making eye contact, keeping a steady heartbeat and recognizing faces are all part of the autism dilemma which can be explored through Shakespeare’s plays, because of the wealth of his poetic definitions of seeing, thinking and loving.Over ten years, Hunter worked with children on all points of the spectrum, developing drama games for the specific purpose of combating autism. Shakespeare’s Heartbeat is a step-by-step guide, detailing how to demonstrate, play and share these sensory games.The book includes:• games based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest• tips and advice for playing one-on-one with the children.This book provides an indispensable learning tool for those wishing to encourage children’s eye contact and facial expression, improve their spatial awareness and language skills and introduce them to imaginative play.

Cracking Shakespeare serves to demystify the process of speaking Shakespeare’s language, offering hands-on techniques for drama students, young actors and directors who are intimidated by rehearsing, performing and directing Shakespeare’s plays. For some artists approaching Shakespeare, the ability to capture the dynamic movement of thought from mind to mouth, and the paradox of using the formality of verse to express a realistic form of speech, can seem daunting. Cracking Shakespeare includes practical techniques and exercises to solve this dilemma – including supporting online video which demonstrate how to embody Shakespeare’s characters in rehearsal and performance – offering a toolkit that will free actors and directors from their fear of Shakespeare.The result of thirty years of acting, teaching and directing Shakespeare, Kelly Hunter’s Cracking Shakespeare is the ideal textbook for actors and directors looking for new ways to approach Shakespeare’s plays in a hands-on, down-to-earth style.

Cracking Shakespeare serves to demystify the process of speaking Shakespeare’s language, offering hands-on techniques for drama students, young actors and directors who are intimidated by rehearsing, performing and directing Shakespeare’s plays. For some artists approaching Shakespeare, the ability to capture the dynamic movement of thought from mind to mouth, and the paradox of using the formality of verse to express a realistic form of speech, can seem daunting. Cracking Shakespeare includes practical techniques and exercises to solve this dilemma – including supporting online video which demonstrate how to embody Shakespeare’s characters in rehearsal and performance – offering a toolkit that will free actors and directors from their fear of Shakespeare.The result of thirty years of acting, teaching and directing Shakespeare, Kelly Hunter’s Cracking Shakespeare is the ideal textbook for actors and directors looking for new ways to approach Shakespeare’s plays in a hands-on, down-to-earth style.