Teaching Theatre Journal

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Teaching Theatre Journal

Spring 2012

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Four steps to help your students connect to a character’s actions
By Peter King

Peter King heads the theatre program at The Park School in Baltimore, where he recently directed a production of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun. Here, King discusses how Practical Aesthetics helped his high schoolers embrace their characters.

For more on as-ifs, see Peter King’s article in the Winter 2002 issue of 'Teaching Theatre.'
Breaking with Realism, Part 4: The main event
Breaking with Realism, Part 4: The main event Virtuosity, extreme symbols, priority shifts, borrowed structures
By Michael Bigelow Dixon

This is the fourth and final article in a series that champions non-realistic theatre and provides exercises designed to give student playwrights creative options beyond the forms that typically dominate their educational and entertainment experiences.

Browse a collection of artistic manifestos, ranging from Futurists and the Dada movement to more contemporary ideas.
Promptbook: ‘MythUnderstood’: Actors, veteran and beginner, make mythical magic in the mouth of Hidden River Cave
In the mouth of a cave nestled in Hart county, Kentucky, theatre artists from Kentucky and New York City came together to bring the chaos and excitement of Greek mythology to life.
By Ryan Emmons and Julie Congress
Check out the website for No. 11 Productions and learn more about ‘MythUnderstood.’

News and Notes: Arts Advocacy Day update, NCCAS adds media arts to Next Generation arts Standards Project, new reports on arts education from USDOE and the NEA, and the AEP launches ArtsEdSearch.org.