Theatre Production II

Activities

THEATRE REVIEWS

• ​Critics and Social Media
• How to Review a Play
• Watch a Show
  • Phantom of the Opera
• Write a Play or Musical Review
  • Brainstorming
• CriticWorks​​

SCRIPT ANALYSIS

• How Read a Play
  • 5 Tips to Help you Read a Play Script​

ACTING BASICS

• ​Memorization
• Stage Directions & Blocking
  • ​​How to Block a Play and Give Stage Directions
    • The Complete and Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O’Neil Vol.1: Long Day’s Journey Into Night Act Two Scene One. ​​
• Read a Play
  • A Raisin in the Sun
    • Characters, Synopsis, & Discussion Questions​​
  • ​​Blocking Check Rubric for A Raisin in the Sun
• Improvisation
  • 20 Rules of Improv
    • Tina Fey's Rules for Improvisation
    • 15 Reminders for Every Improviser
  • 4 Types (Situational, Character, Physical, Language)
    • Situational
      • Death in a Minute
      • Thank Goodness You’re Here
      • Honey, if You Love Me
      • No You Didn’t
      • Scenes from a Hat​
        • Scenes from a Hat prompts
      • Popup Storybook
    • Character
      • Da Club
      • Hitchhiker
      • Party Quirks
      • Dating Game
      • Super Hero
    • Physical
      • What are you Doing?
      • Freeze
      • Half Life (Diminishing Returns)
      • Remote Control
      • Sitting/Standing/Lying
      • Helping Hands
      • LCD (Chain Death Murder)
    • Language Improvisation
      • Da Do Run Run
      • ABC
      • Foreign Language Film
      • Questions​ Only
      • Two Line Vocabulary
      • Sound Effects
      • Dr. Know-it-All​

PLAYWRITING

• ​You Should Write a Play
• ​Writing Advice from 16 Masters of Dramatic Form
• How to Format your Script
  • Sample Templates for a Script
    • NYC Playwrights Template
    • Broadway Educators Template
    • Playwrights Center of Minnesota
• Famous Playwrights

THEATRE HISTORY

• Roman Theatre​
  • ​Watch a Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• Broadway
  • Broadway: The American Musical - Episode Two: Syncopated City​
  • Broadway Musical Songs (one a day)
• Current Events​​
  • Playbill.com​
• ​​Vocabulary
  • 60 Words

PERFORMANCE

• Audition Monologues & Resumes
  • Audition Monologue and Resume Assignment
  • Projection
    • Breathe Control Exercise
  • Script Selection
  • How to Rehearse a Monologue
    • Line Check
    • Performance Check
  • Audition Monologue and Resume Rubric
  • Monologue Reflection
• Duet Scenes
  • Duet Scene Rubric (Blocking/Lines/Performance)
  • Scene Selection
  • How to Rehearse with a Scene Partner
    • Line Check
    • Performance Check
  • Performances
  • Reflection
• ​Fairytale Genre
  • ​Fairytale Genre Rubric
  • Plot Elements (Beginning Middle and End)
    • Dramatic Structure - Freytag's Pyramid​
    • Lion King Example
    • Conflict
  • Rehearsal to Performance Strategies
    • Performance Check
  • Performances
  • Reflection
• Music Video
  • ​Music Video Rubric
  • Plot Element Review
  • Door Assignment
  • Movement
    • Acting with the Body
  • MJ Music Videos
    • Bad
    • Beat It
    • Billie Jean
    • Black or White
    • Smooth Criminal
    • Thriller
  • Brainstorm as a Group
    • A Better Way to Brainstorm:How to Get Students to Generate Original Ideas
  • What Are You Doing?
  • Rehearsal
  • Performance
  • Reflection
• Radio Commercial
  • ​Write Script
  • Qlab
    • ​Getting Started with Qlab
    • ​Qlab Education
    • ​Qlab Tutorials
      • Download Cues and Music
  • Intro to Microphones and Patching
  • Rehearse
  • Perform
• ​Radio Show
  • ​​Radio Show Rubric
    • Read a Captain Midnight Script
      • ​​Episode 167
      • Episode 168
      • Episode 169
      • Episode 170
      • Episode 171
      • Episode 172
      • Episode 173
    • ​Voice & Diction Vocabulary
      • ​Voice Acting Videos
    • ​​Sound Equipment
    • Performance
    • Reflection
• Television
  • ​Water Container Activity
  • Clay Ball Activity
  • Brainstorm as a Group
  • Rehearsal
  • Performances
  • Video Playback
  • Reflection
• ​TV Commercial
  • ​TV Commercial Rubric
  • Select Objects to Sell 
    • BBQ Grill
    • Luggage
    • Purse or Briefcase
    • Refrigerator
    • Guitar
    • Washer & Dryer
    • Garden Tools
    • Pillow
    • Pots & Pans
  • Fourth wall
  • Video

Theatre Production 2 Curriculum