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Part of Designing with Light: No Tech Required Unit

Exercise 2: Concept Creation

by Kerry Hishon

Students work in groups of 2 or 3 for this exercise on concept creation.
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# Stage Management & Technical Theatre # lighting
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Part of Designing with Light: No Tech Required Unit

Exercise 4: Shadow Puppetry

by Kerry Hishon

In this exercise, students will create a short shadow puppetry scene behind a sheet that is backlit.
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# Stage Management & Technical Theatre # lighting
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Part of Scenic Design Unit

Final Submission

by Karen Loftus

Students hand in script notes, ground plan, and renderings. An assessment rubric is included, as well as ideas for unit reflection and an extra credit project.
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# Stage Management & Technical Theatre # technical theatre
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Part of Designing with Light: No Tech Required Unit

Exercise 5: Notating and Communicating Your Concept

by Kerry Hishon

This exercise takes the concept creation ideas explored in a previous exercise and has students notate their lighting plans on a script.
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Part of Props Unit

How to Create a Master Props List

by Karen Loftus

To put students in a theatre production role and introduce one of the tasks of a prop master: a master props list.
# Stage Management & Technical Theatre # stagecraft
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Part of Technical Theatre: Leadership in Theatre Unit

Introduction

by Drama Teacher Academy

Students will analyze the various roles and skills of leaders within organizations that produce theatre.
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Part of Part Two - Rehearsal and Performance Unit

Performance and Strike

by Karen Loftus

This cover the necessary procedures for each and every show, as well as what has to happen once your show is over. Checklists for setup and breakdown are included, as well as performance reports, strike plan and worksheets.
# Stage Management & Technical Theatre # stage management # production
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Part of Part Three - Reflection and Assessment Unit

Troubleshooting

by Karen Loftus

The Production Classroom has its challenges. The scenarios included are designed to help you to think about some potential barriers to having a successful production.
# Stage Management & Technical Theatre # stage management # production
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Part of Mock Audition Unit

After the Audition

by Lindsay Price

How did students feel about their audition? Did they get a part? What is their response if they didn’t? This wrap up lesson allows students to unpack their experience with this unit and participate in a final reflection. This is not a full class lesson.
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# Acting # audition # acting
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Part of The Actor in Transition: From Presentational to Three-Dimensional Unit

An Organic Approach to Objective, Obstacle, Action/Tactic

by Rachel Atkins

This lesson introduces the idea of “Objective/Goal, Obstacle, and Action/Tactic” as a powerful building block for actors and to introduce the concept of working with verbs as tactics.
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Part of Theatrical Arguments: Pursuing Objectives, Communication, and Conflict Unit

Improvised Arguments

by Rachel Atkins

In this final lesson, students explore two different characters whose opposing points of view or arguments create a conflict. They will identify the objectives or arguments for each character. They will act out a scene between those two characters multiple times, playing both characters. Finally, they will write an argument from one character’s point of view – and support it with evidence.
# Acting # acting # improv
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Part of Monologue Writing Made Easy Unit

Analyzing Monologues

by Matthew Banaszynski

Students will plot out the steps of the story mountain by using existing monologues.
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# Playwriting # Acting # monologue # playwriting # acting
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Part of Virtual Introduction to Stanislavski Unit

Analyzing the Play and Given Circumstances

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This lesson marks the shift from working on exercises to working directly on the scenes. Students will revisit their scenes and do some preliminary analysis about the plot, style, and main ideas of the plays these scenes come from. They will learn about given circumstances and their importance. Students will complete a character analysis in order to give them information about the given circumstances of their character to use in scene work.
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Part of Commedia dell'Arte Unit

Appetite

by Todd Espeland

This lesson introduces the second tool: appetite. An appetite is a primal need that drives a character in a scene.
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# Acting # commedia
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Part of Script Analysis: The Actor's Perspective Unit

Applying Analysis to Performance

by Karen Loftus

Students continue their exploration of script analysis by applying objective, obstacles, tactics, and stakes within an open scene. They learn that they must apply their script analysis to their performance.
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Part of Mock Audition Unit

Audition Etiquette

by Lindsay Price

Students will continue their journey toward the Mock Audition by exploring audition etiquette. How can an actor’s attitude and behaviour affect an audition?
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# Acting # audition # acting
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Part of Indigenous Storytelling Unit Unit

Abenaki Creation Story

by Allison Green

Students listen to the Abenaki Creation Story and explore through plot graphing and recreating.
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Part of Free Play Makeup Unit

Makeup Assignment

by Josh Hatt

In this class period, students must decide what makeup application they are going to strive for and determine what skills they need to make it happen.
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# Stage Management & Technical Theatre # technical theatre # makeup
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Part of Indigenous Symbolism in the Drama Classroom Unit

Indigenous Symbolism: Art to Drama

by Allison Green

This lesson defines symbolism and explores Indigenous art and its characteristics.
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# Character Development # indigenous # bipoc
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Part of Play Adaptation Project Unit

Pre-Knowledge and the Definition of Adaptation

by Lindsay Price

In this lesson, students will participate in a couple of hook activities for theatrical adaptation and discuss the definition for adaptation that we will apply throughout the unit.
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# Playwriting
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