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Auditions Exercise Part 1: Perform on Video
Acting

Auditions Exercise Part 1: Perform on Video

The following exercise is the first of a two-part class exercise (Part 2 will come later this month), giving students the opportunity to practice audition prep in a safe environment. Although...
Exercise: Create a World
Classroom Exercise

Exercise: Create a World

Students often get hung up on the notion that in the theatre, sets, costumes, and props all have to meet the standard of the movies. The world of the play has to be three-dimensional and real. A...
Playwriting Exercise: Starry Starry Night
Playwriting

Playwriting Exercise: Starry Starry Night

This interactive version of van Gogh’s Starry Night by animator Petros Vrellis is so engaging. When I watch it, I feel like I’m been drawn into the picture, into the swirls of the night sky. It’s...
Apostrophe’s Video
Production

Apostrophe’s Video

“Are you sometime’s amazed at how many apostrophe’s s’ome people manage to fi’t into s’entence’s? Then you’re not the only one. That’s just the problem that needs to be solved in this outrageous...
Tuna Fish Advice
Featured Plays

Tuna Fish Advice

How do you rehearse a play like Tuna Fish Eulogy?Head over to the sample pagesto see what I’m talking about. This is no walk in the park. The play is in a ladder format, which means the actors read...
Chicken Road: After the Performance
Playwriting

Chicken Road: After the Performance

All theatre should be a theatrical experience. And that to me is what Listowel did with Chicken. Road. The director established a theatrical vision and vaulted the script off the page. The students...
Chicken Road: Talking to the cast before the show
Playwriting

Chicken Road: Talking to the cast before the show

Listowel District Secondary School took my brand new play (look for it to come out in May!) Chicken. Road. to their District Sears Festival. The play deals with the old joke “Why did the Chicken...
Video: Talking Jealousy Jane
Production

Video: Talking Jealousy Jane

Liberty High School performed a way out performance of Jealousy Jane in the fall for their district festival. The original script calls for five actors and little more than a couple of cubes....
Video: Talking Funhouse
Featured Plays

Video: Talking Funhouse

Oceanway Middle School has been working on my newest play Funhouse since September. They received Superiors at their District festival and were invited to perform at the Florida State Junior...
Spread the Love: Alice
Production

Spread the Love: Alice

This week we spread the love for Alice, adapted by Lindsay Price from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Recorded live on some very spinny teacups!
Spread the Love: Competition Monologues Book Two
Featured Plays

Spread the Love: Competition Monologues Book Two

Katie Dalrymple, theatre teacher at Florence High School helps Lindsay spread the love for Competition Monologues: Book Two. Recorded live at the Alabama State Thespian Festival.