Playing to the Audience - Games for Students

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Practicing the Basics: 3 Games to Help Students Play to the Audience

What is THE most important part of an actor’s job? To tell a story to an audience! No matter what, the audience needs to be able to experience what’s going on during the performance. Actors must...

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Nancy Arndorfer, Merrill High School

I sincerely enjoyed directing your creation. There were lots of wonderful characters and I had a great bunch of students with creative ideas. Many of the plays I read before I chose one have similar themes but yours piqued my interest in the first couple of pages.

J. Berry

I was not an experienced drama teacher and found myself (a Music major) teaching Drama and directing productions. DTA was an answer to my need of direction and focus. The materials are there in every subject area and concern. These have been a lifeline for me.

Eden Rush School of Arts & Sciences Tallahassee, FL

I wanted to let you know that we just finished our production of School Daze. My middle school students performed it at an in-school assembly (audience was K-8) and it was wildly popular. The staff and parents loved it was well. I had several people who stopped by to tell me that they particularly loved how "real" the play was. Characters like Marty/Edwin, MacGregor/MacDougal and Cara/Tammy allowed my students to go full out with characterization. Thank you for stocking plays like this - large and flexible casting, lots of short scenes, quick and active, with content that doesn't talk down to my students. These plays are hard to come by, especially with content appropriate for a public middle school.