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RE: Sword use in The Lightning Thief

Posted By Ellen Koivisto 02-02-2024 12:27
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Leather gauntlets/gloves are standard for stage combat as they protect both the hands and the weapons. Even gardening gloves can work, and they, too, come in different sizes. Wood reproduction swords can be cheaper and are easily painted metallic colors. Splinters are the biggest concern. There's ...

RE: checkerboard floor help

Posted By Ellen Koivisto 01-26-2024 13:26
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We have a bunch of dance floor squares, that attach to each other via velcro on the sides, that are white on one side and black on the other. We use these anytime we need to create a patterned floor. They do lay on top of the existing floor, they do nothing harmful to the floor beneath it, they take ...

RE: 6 women scene/ play suggestion

Posted By Ellen Koivisto 12-24-2022 00:27
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Men on Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus As It Is In Heaven by Arlene Hutton ------------------------------ Ellen Koivisto CA ------------------------------

RE: Layering sound from multiple devices on zoom webinar?

Posted By Ellen Koivisto 11-16-2020 14:58
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Hi Karen, Check with you school or district re. the webinars. Our district holds the zoom license for everyone, and our admins have access to webinars (it's how they do community meetings and back to school night, for instance). Our admin let us borrow her webinar ability for the shows. But changing ...

RE: Layering sound from multiple devices on zoom webinar?

Posted By Ellen Koivisto 11-15-2020 13:15
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It's slightly different if you're host or participant, but go into Settings and scroll down to In Meeting (Advanced) and switch to allow Original Sound if you're the host.  All the participants then need to go into their Audio settings (I believe in Advanced options) and switch to Original Sound and ...

RE: How to present rewarding streaming performances

Posted By Ellen Koivisto 11-14-2020 23:41
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Last spring, we streamed prerecorded shows onto YouTube as premieres, with live comments.  This year, so far, we did a live radio play on a Zoom webinar with the cast as participants, SMing in the chat to participants only, and a live Q&A run for the attendees by a theatre student.  We're now setting ...

RE: Looking for a play for 6 girls

Posted By Ellen Koivisto 11-05-2020 15:00
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Well, there's Six.... ------------------------------ Ellen Koivisto San Francisco CA ------------------------------

RE: Thoughts for next season

Posted By Ellen Koivisto 06-05-2020 11:37
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The plays of Emily Mann, Ping Chong, the Tectonic Theater Project, The Exonerated — documentary theatre plays are great for performance with physical distance.

RE: making scripts available in Google Classroom.

Posted By Ellen Koivisto 04-30-2020 12:35
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I'm looking into this, too, and have been strongly steered to our library -- both the school library and the city library system. ------------------------------ Ellen Koivisto San Francisco CA ------------------------------

RE: Macbeth - gender roles flipped

Posted By Ellen Koivisto 08-20-2019 12:57
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A number of years ago, I heard from a teacher who'd done a gender flipped Macbeth.  She and her cast did tons of research on the ancient Celts, where the women were warriors and leaders, setting the play firmly in that time.  It all worked logically with the script and made all kinds of things in the ...