CATEGORY 1: PERFORMANCE PROJECTS (IF YOU LIKE TO PERFORM)

If you want to perform a scene from the featured play with a partner or a group, you will need the performance project and to fill out the 5 hour rehearsal process as you rehearse together…

2-4 PERSON SCENE PERFORMANCE PROJECT
5 hour rehearsal process for a 2-4 person performance project

If you want to perform a monologue from the featured play by yourself, you will need to print out the monologue performance project and go through the steps to analyze and rehearse your monologue. Be prepared to turn in your paperwork of analysis on your monologue showing your work as you apply the process steps to your preparations…

MONOLOGUE PERFORMANCE PROJECT
How to analyze and rehearse a monologue for performance

CATEGORY 2: PERFORMANCE or TECHNICAL PROJECT (A PERFORMANCE & TECHNICAL PROJECT)

Using one item to show characterization project (individual & group)

CATEGORY 3: WRITING AND ANALYSIS BASED PROJECTS (FOR WRITERS & DEEP THINKERS)

PLAYWRITING PROJECTS
Play Reading Projects
Character Analysis Project
Create a Character Map

CATEGORY 4: TECHNICAL THEATRE PROJECTS (FOR TECHIES & VISUAL ARTISTS)

Costume Project
SCENIC DESIGN PROJECT
PUBLICITY POSTER PROJECT

NEED MORE HELP OR INSPIRATION for set design?

How to design a set for theatre
design challenge: designing & making a set
Set design for Comedy of Errors
wicked scenery: design concept
behind the scenes of wicked: set design
working in the theatre: scenic design
set design: misery
set design: hamilton
Lion King: Set Design

Need more help or inspiration for costume design?

WORKING IN THE THEATRE: COSTUME DESIGN
Behind the Scenes: "How to Succeed" Costume Designer Catherine Zuber
Wicked costume: design/build
national theatre costume design: follies
National Theatre Costume Design: His Dark Materials
50 years of costumes at the national theatre

need more help or inspiration for PLAYWRITING?

PLAYWRITING: process
playwriting: characters
playwriting: narrative
playwriting: dialogue
playwriting: scenes
playwriting: style
playwriting: stagecraft
playwriting: top tips

 

Click on the button below. Watch the video and answer the questions!!! Click submit at the end to register your answers!

WHAT IS THEATRE & WHY DOES THEATRE MATTER?

some more food for theatre thought... 

The Top Ten Reasons Why Theatre is Still Important in the Twenty-First Century

#10 Human Beings
The performance of theatre is a universal cultural phenomenon that exists in every society around the world. Human beings are the only animal species that creates theatre. Understanding theatre helps us understand what it means to be human.

#9 Self-Expression
Theatre teaches us how to express ourselves more effectively. It develops our ability to communicate our thoughts and feelings to others, improving our relationships and improving the world around us.

#8 Self-Knowledge
Theatre teaches us about ourselves. It helps us understand how our minds and the minds of others work. It helps us to see how the environments in which we live affect who we are and who we will become.

#7 History
Theatre is a great way to lean about history. Rather than learning history from reading it in a dusty textbook, theatre makes history come alive right before our eyes. Theatre makes learning about history fun.

#6 The Body
Theatre reminds us that, even in this ever-changing digital age, there is a human body at the center of every digital transaction. Accounting for the body in the design of the future will help us make technology that works for us rather than us working for technology.

#5 Globalization
Theatre helps us understand people from cultures other than our own. We can learn a lot about people from cultures all around the world by studying their performance traditions. In doing so, we can learn to be less ethnocentric, and more accepting of others.

#4 Self-Empowerment
Performance permeates every aspect of our everyday lives. Power relationships are constructed through performances. Understanding how performances unfold around us can help us to recognize and take control of the power dynamics that affect us.

#3 Social Change
Theatre is a cultural space where society examines itself in a mirror. Theatre has long been looked at as a laboratory in which we can study the problems that confront society and attempt to solve those problems.

#2 Education
Theatre is a great way to learn. Going to the theatre teaches us about people, places, and ideas to which we would not otherwise be exposed. Learning in a theatrical setting makes learning fun.

#1 Creativity
Theatre helps us to develop our creativity. 

by Dr. Kevin Brown

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ARISTOTLE ELEMENTS INFO PACKET
SHORT STORY MOVIES TO WATCH
A quick guide through the basic elements of dramatic structure. Elements Include: Exposition, Inciting Incident, Rising Action, Climax, Denouement
ALL ARISTOTLE WORKSHEETS & FINAL PROJECT

NEED MORE ARISTOTLE IN YOUR LIFE?

Aristotle SAVED theatre and has forever defined it for us. Click the button below to watch a video and answer some questions about our favorite Greek thinker, Aristotle...

ARISTOTLE'S ELEMENTS OF THEATRE
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Greek Theatre is where IT ALL BEGAN! Click on GREEK THEATRE CRASH COURSE, watch the video, answer the questions on the form, and be ready for some TRAGEDY...

GREEK THEATRE CRASH COURSE

And for the most famous Greek tragedy ever, or as I like to call it, the original HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER... 

OEDIPUS REX (the king)

FULL TEXT OF OEDIPUS REX
ANTIGONE (abridged & adapted script)
Antigone Full Original Version
antigone at the national theatre
MEDEA: ABRIDGED SCRIPT

 

Medieval Theatre features three types of plays: Miracle, Mystery, and Morality. Watch the following video and answers the questions as they pop up!

Medieval Theatre: Mystery, Miracle, & Morality
EVERYMAN SCRIPT
EVERYMAN PROJECT GUIDELINES
Second Shepherd's Play Script

 

 

Commedia Dell'Arte will be a fresh break from all that Greek tragedy and the sacred seriousness of Medieval Theatre. So get ready to laugh it up at poop jokes... 

INTRO TO COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE

DottoreThis Elder is know as the bumbling professor. Often he is a blowhard idiot parading around as a well-learned man. Dottore can be a scientist, lawyer, physician, linguist, or any academic type of class. Often he is a father of one of the Innamorati.

The Servant of Two Masters Script

 

French Neoclassicism & Moliere’s Tartuffe


Molière didn’t follow all the rules of Neoclassic Plays very well, which was why he wasn’t really beloved at the time by the church and French monarchy… but is now more adored and celebrated for his skill in writing satirical comedies.

Tartuffe Script

 

Let’s get MELODRAMATIC!!!

EXAMPLES OF MELODRAMATIC THEME SONGS

NEED more melodrama? Here are some CARTOONS…

 

 

A Doll's House
Trifles
FINAL ABSURD PROJECT
Beckett's shortest play: Breath (the annotated script)
Directed by Damien Hirst.