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Anne Elisa Brown

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RE: Stone Table Set Piece for The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

Posted By Anne Elisa Brown 10-21-2022 12:37
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Wow!!! Thank you so much for the directions and pictures. The pictures help a lot! ------------------------------ Anne Elisa Brown Director of the MHS Drama Department ------------------------------

RE: Stone Table Set Piece for The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

Posted By Anne Elisa Brown 10-21-2022 09:50
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Thank you so much! This is great advice. I will share it with a few people and see if we can make this happen!! I really appreciate this! ------------------------------ Anne Elisa Brown Director of the MHS Drama Department ------------------------------

RE: Stone Table Set Piece for The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

Posted By Anne Elisa Brown 10-19-2022 12:37
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Hi George, I appreciate your advice. Unfortunately, I have no background in set design or even building. I don't even know how to use a saw properly. I am a full-time Spanish teacher and the theater director for a small high school. I was given the job as an extracurricular because no one else would ...

RE: Stone Table Set Piece for The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

Posted By Anne Elisa Brown 10-19-2022 08:43
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Thank you for your reply. I was hoping that this forum would be a place to get ideas about other productions. :-) ------------------------------ Anne Elisa Brown Director of the MHS Drama Department ------------------------------

RE: Stone Table Set Piece for The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

Posted By Anne Elisa Brown 10-19-2022 08:41
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Thank you! I will check it out! ------------------------------ Anne Elisa Brown Director of the MHS Drama Department ------------------------------

Stone Table Set Piece for The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

Posted By Anne Elisa Brown 10-18-2022 14:59
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Hi Everyone, I am looking for ideas for building a stone table set piece for The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. It doesn't necessarily have to crack. I direct in a very small school with limited resources and just don't know where to start. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!! Anne ...

RE: Failure: A Love Story

Posted By Anne Elisa Brown 01-10-2019 11:22
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Thank you for responding! I have a similar idea to put a small student jazz ensemble o stage and have the action happen around them. I also plan to have large clocks all around the stage. I was wondering how you did the scene with Jenny June swimming in the river. Did you have a boat for Mortimer Mortimer ...

Failure: A Love Story

Posted By Anne Elisa Brown 01-08-2019 15:13
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Hello Everyone! I am wondering if anyone has directed Failure: A Love Story by Philip Dawkins. I am looking for any staging ideas, prop lists, pictures, or just good old plain inspiration! I am going to direct this in the spring and would love to hear from anyone who has done the show.  Thank you!  ...

Adding extra characters to one act

Posted By Anne Elisa Brown 11-06-2018 10:52
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Good Morning!  I have more students auditioning for the one act play than there are parts. I don't direct in a big school and am always short on male actors, so I don't want to turn anyone away. Luckily, the play I chose calls for extras. I was wondering if allowing the extras to ad-lib lines is an ...

Casting Children's Theater Camp

Posted By Anne Elisa Brown 02-22-2018 10:25
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Hello Everyone!  I am running a children's theater camp next week. We only have Monday-Saturday from 3:30-5:30 to put a small show together and I was wondering if anyone had experience casting children's theater camps. We always cast the first day after a read-through and explanations of the characters. ...

RE: Set design training in your drama teacher program?

Posted By Anne Elisa Brown 02-21-2018 10:46
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Lisa, I am 100% with you! I got my BA in Theater in 1999 and didn't become a teacher or a theater director until 2009, so even though I was trained in some tech, it was nearly 20 years ago, with very different light and sound technology,  and always supervised. As an undergrad with an emphasis on acting, ...

RE: One Act Competition

Posted By Anne Elisa Brown 02-01-2018 15:52
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Hello, I'm a little late to this discussion thread, but my theater students and I are about to head off to our State One Act Festival tomorrow and perform. I have found that in my 8 years of directing one acts, the experiences have been mostly positive. I do also wonder how theater, or art in general, ...

RE: Scheduling Conflicts

Posted By Anne Elisa Brown 01-22-2018 14:59
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Hello,  What are your typical rehearsal start and end times for high school troupes on mainstage productions? Our rehearsals typically go from 3:30-5:30 five days a week (as the activity schedule allows.) There are usually a handful of days that we can't rehearse due to another activity taking ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Posted By Anne Elisa Brown 12-15-2017 10:12
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Hello Everyone,  I am doing "The Hound of the Baskervilles: A Comedic Thriller" this spring and am wondering how to create the hound or if anyone has done this production before and has props that we could buy. Does anyone have any advice or ideas for creating a believable hound or for staging the production ...

RE: Participation/Costume Fee?

Posted By Anne Elisa Brown 12-13-2017 10:49
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After reading all of your comments, I have come to the conclusion that I think you are all wonderful directors! It sounds like each director is doing what he or she believes is right for his or her particular group of students. I think that each program and each school has its own unique set of circumstances ...

RE: Participation/Costume Fee?

Posted By Anne Elisa Brown 12-12-2017 16:09
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My school doesn't have a theater booster club, and we are not permitted to keep any of the box office sales, so I do charge a $40 costuming fee per student, per show. The students don't get to keep their costumes, but the fee covers repairs, dry cleaning, makeup, and meals for our dress rehearsals. I ...

RE: Middle Schoolers

Posted By Anne Elisa Brown 12-04-2017 13:54
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I second what Victoria said about giving some of the students tech jobs. Many of the students who seemed a bit reluctant at first as 7th graders, have gone on to be in our high school productions as actors and tech crew. My theater program has grown due to the middle school theater class. I will say, ...

RE: Middle Schoolers

Posted By Anne Elisa Brown 12-04-2017 13:11
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Hi! I taught a seven-week long Intro to Theater course to 7th graders for four years. I know EXACTLY what you are dealing with. The way my class was set up, every 7th grader took the class for seven weeks and then performed for the entire 7th grade at the end. The parents/families of the performers were ...

RE: The Love for Three oranges

Posted By Anne Elisa Brown 11-28-2017 14:14
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Hi Kathleen,  I do have a couple of questions about "The Love of Three Oranges". I also have the Hillary DePiano script. It says that the run-time is 90-120 minutes. I am wondering why there is such a large range in the run-time. How long did your production run? Also, which parts did your administration ...

RE: need advice why theater is important in education

Posted By Anne Elisa Brown 11-09-2017 13:44
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Hi George,  Thanks for responding. :-)  We do a lot of self-promotion. I have learned to contact the papers, post about our goings-on on Facebook and other social media, put up fliers, posters, etc. I guess my main complaint, although I may not have expressed this well, is the attitude my district ...