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Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Vera, Frampton Nuttel, Mrs Sappleton, Husband, and Brother

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Melanie, Phoenix, Kensie, Kelsie, Kellie, Troll Genre: Drama

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Vices: Envy, Sloth, and Greed. Virtues: Kindness, Generosity, and Zeal

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Ariane, Essa, Kate Genre: Dramedy

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: What and Nothing Genre: Drama

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Jo, May, Helen. (all 16) Genre: Drama

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Steve and Bear (both 15) Genre: Comedy

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Beaker, Brawn, Belly, Bitter, Beauty (all 17) Genre: Drama

These story theatre scripts are ready for performance. Each story includes at least one narrator, and each one can be adapted further to meet your needs.

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Sweetie (male), Punkin (female) There are also two voices, male and female, of the couple in the next apartment.

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Ron (17), Jared (16) Genre: Comedy

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Catherine (17) and Cossett (14) Genre: Comedy

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Nolan, Link, Foster, Paloma, Macy, Xandra, Zuzu, Masks (5), Gray, Quinn, Jess, Ryder, Raven, Ms Berg Genre: Dramedy

This packet includes an introduction for the teacher, and cover sheet for the student, to assign the Playwriting Part Two packet for at-home distance learning, without technology.

This packet includes an introduction for the teacher, and cover sheet for the student, to assign the Playwriting Part One packet for at-home distance learning, without technology.

Use this profile to explore the details of your masked character.

This exercise helps to demonstrate the concept of status, and how the status of a character affects how they act and how they treat others.

Use this handy chart to review Commedia stock characters and their descriptions.

One of the ways that we can learn about status is by physically playing status in the body. Use these descriptions to physicalize high/low status with your students in the Status Walks Game.

Lazzi is a comic bit or piece of comic shtick based on character. In this handout, students learn where to start with Lazzi, with examples of Commedia characters and how they perform Lazzi.