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Exaggeration

by Anna Porter

Students will play with exaggerated resistance through a pantomime Tug of War and Object Toss. Students will further explore exaggerated emotion through a mirror exercise with a partner where they will progressively exaggerate an emotion physically. They will demonstrate their understanding of both exaggerated resistance and emotion by performing a short skit based on over the top soccer injuries.

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Pantomime Story and Performance

by Anna Porter

Students will create a simple pantomime story and prepare a pantomime for performance.

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Personal Style

by Holly Beardsley

In this lesson, students will reflect on their personal style, learn clothing vocabulary, and identify how to apply personal style to creating costumes for a show. They will also learn the difference between a costume designer and a costumer.

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Clothing Vocabulary

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Versatility

by Holly Beardsley

How do you take existing pieces and create a costume? One of the keys to successful costuming is knowing how to adapt staples into a variety of different costumes for different productions. As highlighted in Lesson One, when it comes to costuming, sometimes what you come up with won’t be the perfect costume. It’s important to learn to work with what you have. This lesson allows students to continue working on their clothing vocabulary document.

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Costuming Vision

by Holly Beardsley

One issue that costumers run into is that because they’re pulling together from existing pieces, the costumes’ overall look can lack unity. The best way to achieve unification is by creating and executing costumes through a costuming vision. In this lesson, students will answer questions in order to develop a costuming vision for a show.

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Period Costuming

by Holly Beardsley

Sometimes a costumer not only has to put together clothes for a modern production, but they have to create a period look. This lesson identifies the items of clothing most associated with specific eras and how to emulate those eras using modern clothing. This lesson also enforces that costuming is an illusion. You work with what you have to create the atmosphere of an era. What can you do to create the illusion of the original?

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The Colour Wheel

by Holly Beardsley

Costuming with colour is another technique to unify a look for a show. It’s a great way to visualize theme and mood. How do different colours make you feel? What colours are associated with different moods? Can colour be used to identify a group? Students will first assess character types and use the colour wheel to create a costume look. Their task for the lesson is to assign colours to different groups in a play, based on relationship, mood, and era.

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Culminating Assignment

by Holly Beardsley

Students will apply what they have learned to two possible culminating assignments.

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Uta Hagen's Nine Questions

by Matt Webster

Introduce your students to Uta Hagen and the nine questions she uses for character development.

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An Organic Approach to Objective, Obstacle, Stakes, and Action/Tactic

by John Minigan

To introduce the idea of “objective/goal, obstacle, stakes, and action/tactic” as a powerful building block for actors and to introduce the concept of working with verbs as tactics

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Scoring and Beats

by John Minigan

To introduce the idea of “objective/goal, obstacle, and action/tactic” to simple scenes by scoring those scenes and playing the scored text.

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Status Monkeys

by Anna Porter

To learn how status influences characterization and character actions by participating in “Status Monkeys” and other interactions based on status

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Project

by Matt Webster

To demonstrate comprehension and understanding of content and concepts through the analysis and performance of an open scene.

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The Rashomon Monologue

by Lindsay Price

Students will learn the Rashomon plot device, then put it into practice through improvised character monologues.

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The Criteria of a Good Monologue

by Lindsay Price

Students will learn and then identify the elements of a good monologue. They will assess an existing monologue together as a class, and then they will work individually on a monologue.

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Monologue Writing: The Need to Speak

by Lindsay Price

Students will complete exercises that demonstrate how a character’s need to speak results in a better monologue. They will then write a monologue that applies this knowledge.

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Monologue Writing: Character Specific Voice

by Lindsay Price

Students will complete exercises that demonstrate how a character-specific voice results in a better monologue. They will then revise their monologues to apply this knowledge.

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Project: Performing Monologues

by Matt Webster

For this culminating project, students will perform their original monologue from the previous lesson.

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Shakespeare: Finding Emotion and Action in Text

by Anna Porter

Students will use textual analysis to explore how to uncover the clues that Shakespeare left in his text. They will apply this knowledge to a monologue.

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Shakespeare: Tableaux

by Karen Loftus

Students interact with Shakespeare’s language out of context to create expressive tableaux that tell a simple unrelated story.

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