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Episode 188: Drama Teachers: An awesome festival op! Playwright Wendy-Marie Martin (Breathless) created an amazing 10 play festival that takes place around the world. It’s all about creative thinking and collaboration! Not only will she share how she put together such an event but also how you too can get...

Ready for some fun with Greek mythology that also gives your students a chance to stretch themselves through physical action? Circus Olympus by Lindsay Price is all of that plus three plays in one – full length, one-act, and a twenty minute competition piece. The characters and staging are fun...

Some improv games call for an action to start the scene, but many improv scenes require a character with a specific job or occupation to get the scene going. Here are fifty gender-neutral occupation prompts that you can use to help your students create some fun characters. Try using them...

Have you ever stood in line at the grocery store and found yourself casually glancing ahead in line, and then back in line to see what those fore and aft have in their carts? Do you ever try to figure out what kind of person they are based on what...

Episode 95: Audio Drama in the Classroom In this podcast we talk about how to use audio drama for project-based learning, as a play review activity, an interesting exercise for directors and more! Show Notes • Sonic Society • Colonial Radio Theatre • Celtx – writing scripts software • Decoder...

Have fun with the five senses! Students write a different header on five different pieces paper: 1. Sight (objects) 2. Sound 3. Smell 4. Touch (Textures) 5. Taste Go through the headers with the class and give them an example for each. Then have students create an their own examples...

Episode 73: Using Audio Drama in the ClassroomInterview with Jack Ward. Audio Drama can be used for a project-based learning unit, as a play review activity if you can’t get your students to live theatre, as an interesting exercise for directors, as cross-curricular or advocacy work (e.g. to reach out...

The Bright Blue Mailbox Suicide Note by Lindsay Price is an incredibly theatrical high school play that runs the full gamut of emotions. Jake finds a suicide note in his mailbox. He doesn’t know who it’s from, or to whom it is addressed. His friends speculate, joke, and lose interest...

If you need something fast and simple to fill those final 10 minutes of drama class, we’ve got you covered! Try these 10 time-filler activities to keep your students occupied until the bell rings. If you need even more ideas, there are 10 more suggestions in the giveaway at the...

*Welcome to our Featured Play Spotlight. * If you believe that Shakespeare’s characters deserve to celebrate the holidays too, then the “what if” holiday extravaganza, Shakespeare’s Super Snowy Seasonal Sleigh Ride Stage Show! by Lindsay Price is for you! Shakespeare’s characters are festive. Very festive. And they deserve to be...

The stage can be a lonely place when you’re performing a monologue. It’s just you. Well, you and your wits. And your anxieties. Maybe your fears, too. Sure there’s an audience, or maybe a stern-looking judge, or a roomful of fellow competitors. But if something goes wrong, or you need...

Directing first-time actors is both exciting and challenging. New performers often arrive with enthusiasm, curiosity, and a desire to belong. But they may also carry anxiety, uncertainty, or misconceptions about what theatre demands. For many, this is their first time stepping into a space that asks for vulnerability, discipline, teamwork,...

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Here at Theatrefolk, we love a good prompt collection! We’ve got outdoor prompts, job/occupation prompts, location prompts, and this collection is all about food! Don’t worry — all of these prompts are school-appropriate, and diet culture-free. Use the following fifty prompts for improv scenes or playwriting exercises, and you’ll find...

Welcome to our Featured Play Spotlight. If you’re a fan of the classics but have wondered it would be like to tell the story through the lens of the absurd, you’ll love To Kill A Mocking Birdie by Clint Snyder. Birdie would like you to meet her parents: a goldfish...

The following exercise challenges students to explore character movement by focusing on the speed of movements. This exercise is mental and physical — students will brainstorm a list of characters that move fast and a list of characters that move slow. Then, students will get up as a group and...

Getting to try on a new costume for the first time is one of every student’s favourite parts of the rehearsal process. A costume helps so much to tell the story of the show, and helps students really become their characters. But before that, it is useful for students to...

Episode 144: Looking At Theatre in a New LightIn this episode we have two interviews that explore theatre in a new light. That’s the wonderful thing about theatre – it is malleable, it’s changeable. You can approach the act of theatre is so many different ways. It can happen in...

Kristi Ross-Clausen, Production Stage Manager at the University of Wisconsin – Madison is constantly thinking about theatre safety. She’s taught drama and been behind the scenes for both local and Broadway productions. She did her master’s thesis on high school theatre safety, and she shares with us some basic theatre...

Lindsay and Craig spread the love for Humbug High: A Contemporary Christmas Carol. TranscriptWelcome to Spread the Love. This week we’re going to continue in the holiday spirit with Humbug High: A Contemporary Christmas Carol. Humbug High is, as I’m sure you’ve guessed, a modern re-envisioning of the original story...