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Digital Teaching Tools: A Wind in the Door
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With this new adaptation comes new lesson plans!
These lessons from playwright Peter Royston will round out an ensemble’s experience rehearsing this play or help your students get solid grasp of the script when analyzing the text in class.
Digital Teaching Tools: I Hate Valentines Day
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Round out your rehearsal process with these helpful discussion questions from playwright, Sonya Sobieski.
These play analysis questions can be made into a worksheet, rehearsal handout, or group activity.
Digital Teaching Tools: Tuck Everlasting
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Whether it’s middle school theater class or the high school play, practicing theater in school helps guide us through all of the ups and downs that life brings us.
Here are some ideas for using TUCK EVERLASTING in your classroom to get you started, be it virtual or in-person.
New Takes on Classic Tales: Shakespeare, Clearly
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Distance Learning gives theater teachers the opportunity to dive into theater history, Shakespeare, and more!
Expert director Jon Jory's "plainspoken" adaptations of the Bard's classics maintains the theatricality while making Shakespeare accessible to young actors and audiences.
New Takes on Classic Tales: Wild Waves Whist
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The pandemic has made fall plans harder to chart than the choppy waters of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Thankfully we have playwrights like Patty MacMullen and her Tempest adaptation WILD WAVES WHIST to keep us grounded!
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