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RE: BiPOC scenes & plays for high school

Posted By Nathan Rosen 04-16-2024 12:44
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Consider Admissions by Joshua Harmon. Or Pipeline by Dominique Morriseau Nathan Rosen English teacher Guilford Park High School 8500 Ridgelys Run Road Jessup, MD 20794 410-313-7430 Wilde Lake High School 5460 Trumpeter Road Columbia, MD 21044 410-313-6965 Howard County Public School ...

RE: Advice on Becoming a Theatre Teacher

Posted By Nathan Rosen 02-24-2023 08:19
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https://community.schooltheatre.org/communities-nav/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?MessageKey=d3b8440a-bcc6-42b6-a2ec-cf20699fdce3&CommunityKey=35d3756e-031c-447e-a020-14aeb57718f1&tab=digestviewer Based on that discussion, it looks like becoming a secondary English teacher with ...

RE: Play Needed for large cast

Posted By Nathan Rosen 01-10-2023 09:48
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Consider Stage Door by Kaufman & Ferber If you do, here are a few thoughts: do NOT move the intermissions. The playwrights placed them very carefully (I messed that up when I did the show 25 years ago). There are some lovely moments of comedy but the overall mood is dramatic. Really shows off the ...

RE: Acoustic Shell?

Posted By Nathan Rosen 09-05-2022 09:20
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What was the college class? Sound design? Acoustics? Something else? ------------------------------ Nathan Rosen Atholton High School theatre teacher/director Columbia, MD USA ------------------------------

Hairspray Set Pieces

Posted By Nathan Rosen 05-06-2022 13:08
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Hello folks, We did Hairspray this past March and are located in central Maryland. I was gifted several items by another production but have had no luck in finding someone to take them from me. Items include the giant Hairspray can, the jail (up to 40 feet wide), the vertical bed with prison wall ...

RE: Registering Students

Posted By Nathan Rosen 05-06-2022 08:02
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One way that a teacher could have students enter the data to create a csv file would be to set up a Google form. If you use Google docs but don't know how to use forms, I suggest trying it out. Google's guidance and various videos allow it to be something you can teach yourself to use. Google forms ...

RE: BiPOC scenes & plays for high school

Posted By Nathan Rosen 04-26-2022 05:55
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Pipeline Dominique Morriseau Nathan Rosen Theatre Arts teacher/director Atholton High School 6520 Freetown Road Columbia MD 21044 Best of Howard 2021 in Performing Arts, Honorable Mention http://www.atholtondrama.org "Wherever you go, there you are."

Quick and helpful responses from MTI

Posted By Nathan Rosen 04-28-2021 10:35
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Hi all, We read plenty of complaints about the licensing houses, so it seems right to share compliments as well. Adam at MTI has quickly answered my two recent emails with quick and helpful action. We were able to quickly and easily schedule a new date in 2022 for a production of Hairspray we ...

In person programs for summer 2021?

Posted By Nathan Rosen 04-12-2021 10:02
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Hi all, Has anyone collected information on what summer 2021 musical theater programs will be offered in person this year? Online is better than nothing at all, for sure, but with vaccines available for folks over 16, there should be more options now. Not looking for anything unsafe, but what ...

RE: Front light on the quick and cheap

Posted By Nathan Rosen 03-25-2021 08:41
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First of all, are there any other lights around in the building you might be able to borrow? Otherwise, consider Halogen work lights. Some of your students may have some at home in garages or basements. ------------------------------ Nathan Rosen Atholton High School theatre teacher/director ...

RE: Makeup in Stock and Covid - Now What?

Posted By Nathan Rosen 12-17-2020 08:56
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Some years ago we switched to personal makeup kits. Our students buy them, unless there is financial hardship, and then the production buys it. Students keep the kits after the show, no matter who paid, and bring them back for the next show, most of the time. While we do have some stock items ...

RE: Greek Plays: Ideas?

Posted By Nathan Rosen 10-14-2020 08:47
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About 20 years ago, we produced the Sophocles version in colored togas and paper mache masks. I am personally fond of the Fitts and Fitzgerald translation, but there are some others that are also excellent. Good poetry helps. We had different actors play Antigone each time she appeared, sharing ...

RE: Plays for 9 characters

Posted By Nathan Rosen 09-24-2020 08:54
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Regarding The Dining Room, it's worth mentioning that just because the script makes it clear that all of the characters are white people living in New England between 1880ish and 1980ish, that does not mean that the actors have to present as that ethnicity. One lovely aspect of the play is that there ...

RE: Method acting

Posted By Nathan Rosen 06-19-2020 09:51
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Is it your intent to suggest that the whole thing was a bad idea and bad for acting and actors? Because that's how it comes off. You probably ought to include Lee Straberg, the Actors Studio, and Elia Kazan as well. People trained in this acting discipline dominated serious acting in New York and ...

RE: Free stage models for use with SketchUp

Posted By Nathan Rosen 04-26-2020 14:17
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Me too for SketchUp zoom ------------------------------ Nathan Rosen Baltimore MD ------------------------------

RE: Any Excellent Books on How to Teach Shakespeare out there?

Posted By Nathan Rosen 01-01-2020 15:46
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Shakespeare Set Free (https://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-set-free) These books are about using a performance-based method to teach a number of Shakespeare's plays. The methods could easily be adapted to teach scripts that they have not produced various hand outs and lesson plans for: Volume ...

RE: High School Plays

Posted By Nathan Rosen 12-13-2019 08:09
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Regarding Stage Door... we had a lovely, successful production of it here back in another century. HOWEVER, it is a play of some length with both very comic and very dramatic moments, and for gosh sakes, keep the two intermissions. In my production, I moved to just one intermission (between the scenes ...

RE: Drowsy Chaperone

Posted By Nathan Rosen 05-31-2019 08:49
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Hi Rob, We did Drowsy with more than 40 in the cast. That worked just fine. There were lots of servants in the household. I would urge you to consider how the expanded cast gets on and off the stage. They can't all go through the fridge. Our apartment had walls that could open like doors. That ...

RE: Fuenteovejuna

Posted By Nathan Rosen 03-05-2019 08:28
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Fuente Ovejuna just had an excellent performance at Towson University this past fall using the translation by Adrian Mitchell. https://events.towson.edu/event/fuente_ovejuna_by_lope_de_vega#.XH55F1NKiqA My personal preference on translations is to read some of it, and see what "feels" like what ...

RE: Audition change up

Posted By Nathan Rosen 01-16-2019 08:38
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Consider an improv game of some kind. What I often do is a simple exercise I call a "one line scene." Its purpose is for two actors to demonstrate committed physical choices. Here's how it works: The actors must create a scene for two characters who are somewhere, doing something. Keep it ...