You know how it goes: "If someone told me 10 years ago that I would be such and such, I wouldn't have believed them in a million years." I know the feeling. Very well. This notion of unexpected outcomes came to the forefront of my mind this week because I found myself saying that above [...]
Tag: teaching drama
Have you read MacBeth? Who Cares? Have you SEEN MacBeth?
My favorite Shakespeare troupe, the KL Shakespeare Players, bring back their delightful Shakespeare Demystified series to penangpac starting this Thursday evening. I've caught many of their fun renditions over the years, and I'm sure this one will be up to the challenge of presenting the Bard's MacBETH in relevant and understandable ways for the modern [...]
Readers’ Theatre: Anne of Green Gables
The main, yearly project for my Intro to Theatre Arts class is our Readers' Theatre. It's a performance where the actors keep the scripts in their hands, and they act it out as best as possible with as many props and set pieces as possible. For this project, I make it completely student driven. Inha [...]
Theatre Production – So Many Hats
I'm back into full-swing theatre mode. So much of my day revolves around theatre and drama, and, of course, I love all of it. But it is a telling sign of what's to come. Here's a quick run-down of all theatre related items I did today. A colleague came to talk to me about a [...]
“If we could only do the arts everyday and forget about things like science.”
I had a delightfully long drama rehearsal with two young actors this afternoon. We put in a good hour and a half on a nine minute sketch we are working on. As we finished, one of the actors commented how she has to go home and wade through a 13 page biology study guide for [...]
