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Scene Self-Staging: Teaching Students to Block Theatrically and Independently

You need your students to work independently on a scene but when it’s time to present they seem to have forgotten everything you’ve taught them. Scene Self-Staging: Teaching Students to Block Theatrically and Independently gives students a process to follow to help them produce a fully staged scene with specific dynamic blocking and three-dimensional characters.

Scene Self-Staging provides an in-depth step-by-step process to help students master their scenes – from choosing a scene to script analysis to presentation. All material is geared toward independent, student-driven staging – and you can be as involved or as hands-off as you wish. Assessment suggestions are provided for each step, or you can just use the Performance Rubric.

Help your students stage their scenes to the best of their ability – and do it all without you!


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Scene Self-Staging: Teaching Students to Block Theatrically and Independently

by Lindsay Price Canadian Author

You need your students to work independently on a scene but when it's time to present they seem to have forgotten everything you've taught them. Scene Self-Staging gives students a process to follow to help them produce a fully staged scene with specific dynamic blocking and three-dimensional characters.

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