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Staging Articles for Drama Teachers

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Staging Theatre in Non-Traditional Spaces
Directing

Staging Theatre in Non-Traditional Spaces

Theatre teachers are often faced with staging productions in less-than-optimal spaces. Whether it’s on a platform in the corner of a classroom or the stage in the cafeteria, theatre teachers have...
Creative Ways to Stage Theatre on a Tight Budget
Directing

Creative Ways to Stage Theatre on a Tight Budget

It’s a struggle to stage a production with little or no funds, but it’s not impossible! If your program is new or small, chances are you’re dealing with a tight budget. So how do you stage a show...
How to Teach Blocking without Boring Your Students
Directing

How to Teach Blocking without Boring Your Students

Blocking is fundamental to acting. Whether staging a two-person scene or 30-person musical number, how you arrange the actors onstage is an important part of the storytelling. Unfortunately,...
Creative Ideas for Staging Chase Scenes
Directing

Creative Ideas for Staging Chase Scenes

It’s always exciting to have action-packed sequences in your show, and chase scenes are both great fun and challenging to stage. Whether a character is being chased by a villain, chasing after a...
Pros and Cons: Food and Drink Onstage
Directing

Pros and Cons: Food and Drink Onstage

Eating and drinking are necessary for existence on this planet. So much of our life is centred around food: making it together, serving it for a special occasion, trying new dishes, challenges...
Blocking Exercise: Same Scene, Different Stages
Classroom Exercise

Blocking Exercise: Same Scene, Different Stages

When students are presenting scenes in drama class, the most typical setup is actors on one side of the room with the audience facing them on the opposite side, like a typical proscenium arch...
Creatively-Staged Scenes with  Middle School Students
Classroom Exercise

Creatively-Staged Scenes with Middle School Students

It’s exciting when well-known books, films, and television shows get turned into stage productions. Plays and musicals like The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, The SpongeBob Musical,...
All About Transitions: 5 Tips for Success
Acting

All About Transitions: 5 Tips for Success

In theatre, a transition refers to the process of moving from one scene or set to the next. It seems simple enough–grab “all the stuff” at the end of one scene and take it offstage, while the rest...
A Comparison of Rehearsal Blocking Techniques
Directing

A Comparison of Rehearsal Blocking Techniques

Teachers, when working in rehearsals with your students, are you more of a planner type or a go-with-the-flow type? Do you map out all the blocking and movements in advance, or do you allow...
How to “Pre-Block” a Scene
Directing

How to “Pre-Block” a Scene

When directing a show, it can be very useful to “pre-block” a scene ahead of time. “Pre-blocking” means to plan all basic character movements in advance of the rehearsal. This can save a lot of...
Do your students suffer from Wanderitis?
Acting

Do your students suffer from Wanderitis?

It happens all the time in young or beginning actors. You’re sitting in the audience and out of the corner of your eye you catch it – an actor starts to shift back and forth on their feet. Their...
Theatre in the Round – Staging
Directing

Theatre in the Round – Staging

The show I’ve been doing this summer is staged in the round. Well, the audience is arranged in a more square-like pattern, but “in the round” will suffice for our purposes. There aren’t many...