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04 - Stories on Stools

This section will assemble the concepts that have been presented so far to build a simple performance on the stage. This style of story theatre is called stories on stools and it is at the same time deceivingly simple and astonishingly creative.

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05 - Dialogue Strategies

There are a number of different ways to present dialogue – from simple to complex – and combine those dialogue forms with a variety of staging styles. These different pairings will give you an assortment of options to use when you’re deciding how you want to stage your stories.

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06 - People as Props

How would you like to bring every aspect of your story to life using just your actors? This is one of the most complex forms of story theatre, but it’s also one of the most exciting. Once you understand the concept of people as props, you will understand how it is possible to stage any story, no matter how complicated, in a creative, dynamic, living way.

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07 - Imaginative Props

If you want to incorporate props into your story theatre performance, consider using them in an atypical, not necessarily realistic manner. Props can engage the audience’s imagination and allow us to build scenes, sets, and entire worlds out of objects we have readily at our disposal. When you combine imagination and props, amazing things happen.

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08 - Adapting to Different Performing Spaces

This section will provide some tips for adapting your performance for the different spaces you may encounter. This information will help you avoid potential pitfalls that could derail your production.

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09 - Story Theatre in the Classroom

Story theatre incorporates all components of theatre into a compact form, including research and adaptation, acting and performance, interpretation and design, and directing.

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10 - Story Theatre and Community Outreach

Once you have perfected the process of story theatre, it’s time to think beyond the walls of your classroom. What community performance opportunities exist in your area?

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11 - Sample Fables for Adaptation

There are four Aesop’s Fables in this section. How would you adapt them for story theatre?

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12 - Story Theatre Fable Examples

The scripts in this section are sample adaptations of the fables in the previous section. How do these scripts compare to your adaptations?

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Carla-Jayne Samuelson at Ghost River Intensives

Join Lindsay Price as she speaks to DTA member Carla-Jayne Samuelson, one of the winners of the DTA Travel Scholarship in 2018, about her experience at Ghost River Intensives in Alberta.

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00 - Overview

This the overview to the toolkit, which breaks down the process of learning how to direct into specific tools. Each tool comes with exercises, assignments, handouts, and Reflections.

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02 - Tool of the Script

This tool covers finding a script and directing proposal, the first, second, third, and fourth read.

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01 - Tool of Self

This tool includes three parts: well of knowledge, leadership, and research, as well as activities to explore the tool of self.

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03 - Tool of the Actor

The Tool of the Actor often puts the student-director in the role of the actor in order to fully understand how to direct them. The Actor's Purpose, the Audition Process, and Communication & Assisting are key tools in this section.

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04 - The Tool of Rehearsal

This section covers an overview of the rehearsal process and walks students through creating a rehearsal schedule/calendar.

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05 - Tool of Space

The next tool is the Tool of Space. As student-directors work on staging their play in rehearsal, it’s more than moving actors and set pieces on and off. How do you use the space to its greatest theatrical potential?

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06 - Tool of Design

Student-directors need to know how to communicate with designers. This section covers how directors can communicate efficiently, and how they can approach the design process when these tasks fall to them.

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07 - Tool of Self-Evaluation

The last tool is evaluation. But it’s not having other people critique what the student-director has done, rather it’s choosing a method of self-evaluation.

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