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Commedia Stock Characters

Use this handy chart to review Commedia stock characters and their descriptions.

# Commedia # commedia # character development

Commedia Exercise: Opposite Day

This exercise helps to demonstrate the concept of status, and how the status of a character affects how they act and how they treat others.

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Group Up

This warm-up is great to integrate at the beginning of a year or term, to start creating community and cooperation within a class.

# Warm-Ups # group activities # warm-ups

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Journal Writing Checklist

Use this checklist to help students assess their progress in a journal writing assignment.

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Compare and Contrast (Shakepeare)

In this Compare and Contrast Exercise students will read a scene in its original form, read an modern adaptation, and then compare and contrast the two. What are the similarities and differences?

# Scenes For Classroom Study # analysis # Shakespeare

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Picture prompts are a great way to initiate student writing. They don’t have to have an idea, they simply respond to the picture. Have students study the picture and answer the provided questions. Each picture includes a character or a story element question.

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Backward Critical Thinking Exercise

Instead of having students answer questions, what happens when they have to devise the questions? Give students 20 answers. Divide students into groups and have them come up with the questions that would result in the provided answers.

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Who's Who in the Theatre?

This handout lists all of the roles and positions that make up a theatre company.

# Rehearsal and Production # production # rehearsal

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Pre-Devising Brainstorming Exercise

Try this exercise for generating ideas.

# The Classroom # playwriting # devising

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Poster: 10 Things that Require Zero Talent

Print this poster out to hang in your classroom - it's a list of 10 things students can do that require ZERO talent.

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Spanish Version

# The Classroom # Quotes & Posters # poster

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Vocal Warm-up

Learn a great vocal warm-up "What a to-do" from DTA instructor Todd Espeland. It promotes diction, projection and breath control.

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Vocal Warm-up What a To-Do

# Video # Warm-Ups # warm-ups # musical theatre # voice

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Masterclass with George Ledo: Scenic Design

Masterclass is a series of one-on-one interviews with experts, creators and innovators in the world of Theatre that you can study in-depth, or share with your classes. Think of this series as ‘Inside the Actor’s Studio’ for Drama Teachers. This Masterclass with George Ledo is all about Scenic Design, and is hosted by Matt Webster.

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# Masterclass # set design # emergency lesson plan

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Musical Theatre Vocal Warm-Up

This warm-up takes students through the 3 key components of warming up the body before singing: Stretching, Breathing, and Resonator and Articulator exercises.

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