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Exercise Articles for Drama Teachers

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Tech Exercises for the Non-Technical Teacher
Classroom Exercise

Tech Exercises for the Non-Technical Teacher

The phrase “technical theatre” can be intimidating for some drama teachers. They may feel that they don’t have adequate experience to teach technical theatre, or that they just aren’t “tech-y”...
Exercise: Year-End Reflection
Classroom Exercise

Exercise: Year-End Reflection

We always ask our drama students to reflect on their experiences, and for good reason. Reflecting helps students gain a deeper understanding of the lessons taught, skills learned, and experiences...
Exercise: Effective Peer Feedback
Classroom Exercise

Exercise: Effective Peer Feedback

Do your students know how to give effective peer feedback? If not, they may not know what that actually looks like. If they don’t know what effective peer feedback is, how can they benefit from...
Exercise: Found Objects
Classroom Exercise

Exercise: Found Objects

This simple classroom scene exercise challenges students to not only prepare a scene for a staged reading performance, but to also include a variety of theatrical “extras” using items found in the...
Rehearsal Warm-Up Game: Switching Roles
Classroom Exercise

Rehearsal Warm-Up Game: Switching Roles

Here’s a warm-up game you can try at your next rehearsal: Switching Roles. Students will use an improv game to take on a different part in the play you’re currently working on. It’s a simple enough...
Exercise: Student-Led Warm-Up Games
Classroom Exercise

Exercise: Student-Led Warm-Up Games

Student-led warm-up games are a great way for students to demonstrate what they’ve learned in drama class and apply it in a practical setting, as well as to develop their leadership skills....
Brainstorming as a Group: Add Three
Classroom Exercise

Brainstorming as a Group: Add Three

Here is a brainstorming exercise that you can use with your students when they have selected a broad topic and are trying to narrow it down or flesh out their ideas. For example, they may have...
Exercise: Problem-Solving for Student Directors
Classroom Exercise

Exercise: Problem-Solving for Student Directors

Giving students the opportunity to direct is a great thing – it helps them to develop their leadership skills and creative thinking abilities, challenges them in a new theatrical medium, and helps...
How to Create a Program for Your Production
Production

How to Create a Program for Your Production

Show programs (also known as playbills) are the easiest way to share important production information with the audience. Programs are a method of acknowledging all the hard work done by the cast...
Can You Hear Me Now? A Peer-Led Volume Exercise
Acting

Can You Hear Me Now? A Peer-Led Volume Exercise

Isn’t it funny how some students are loud and enthusiastic during break time, but once they’re onstage, their voices seem to disappear? No, you haven’t lost your hearing – it’s one of the many...
Exercise: Same Lines, Different Meanings
Acting

Exercise: Same Lines, Different Meanings

One of the exciting aspects of rehearsal is experimenting with the text of the script and figuring out what the characters are saying and how they should say it. Each approach to the text will...
Dancing in the Drama Classroom: 3 Ways to Get Started
Classroom Exercise

Dancing in the Drama Classroom: 3 Ways to Get Started

For those students who love dancing, simply mentioning the word “dance” gets them up on their feet and immediately moving. For other students, the idea of pirouettes, step-touches, and fan kicks...
Exercise: Approaching Random Tasks in Character
Acting

Exercise: Approaching Random Tasks in Character

A common question that is asked of student actors when they’re analyzing their character is: “What was your character doing before this scene?” Or “What is your character going to do after this...
What’s Your Character’s Signature Gesture?
Classroom Exercise

What’s Your Character’s Signature Gesture?

What is a signature gesture? It’s a nonverbal, repeated movement your character is known for, that you perform in a particular way that is unique and identifiable. Common, well-known gestures...