Theater

This workshop is an introduction to how actors use movement and the physical body to tell stories and express emotion. Through playful exercise, students learn to use movement to convey the rich themes, conflicts, and relationships within Twelfth Night. This resource contains a Short Video with the actors discussing this topic, an example in the Full Workshop Video, an Excerpts Video containing examples from the full play, and a walk-through in the Lesson Plan.

Kim Joiner explains how she planned a unit on the Holocaust that included art and drama activities and a field trip. She describes the elements of the unit, from the initial overview for students to history and art lessons, field trip preparation, and the final art project and presentations.

Through verse, members of the Spoken Word Club at the Santa Fe Indian School articulate identities both modern and traditional.

Explore the impact of participation in the justice system on court-involved youth in this video from Stargate Theater: A Defining Act. The documentary follows the story of a group of boys who produce a play based on their experience growing up in neighborhoods with high incarceration rates. Support materials ask students to research the justice system, analyze statistics, and write a creative response similar to the youth in the film by writing a letter to the justice system.

Stargate Theatre: A Defining Act is a documentary film that shares the story of the Stargate Theatre Company, a groundbreaking program that immerses court-involved youth in the theater arts as a mechanism for coping with and overcoming negative factors in their lives. Founded by the prestigious Manhattan Theatre Club, Stargate provides its members with transitional employment, work-readiness training, and literacy education in a creative theatrical environment. Told through the voices of the Stargate company members, along with the teaching artists and professionals who lead them, Stargate Theatre: A Defining Act follows these young men from auditions to the final performance of their original play, “Deeper than Skin.”