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Check out RAISING THE CURTAIN for your beginning and intermediate students. It has some advanced experiences. www.perfectionlearning.comI also recommendTHE STUDENT ACTOR PREPARES for advanced students. www.gaijones.com Best in Theatre education. Gai Laing Jones

I have long used a variety of materials I gather myself for my theatre classes, but I am interested in whether there are some good textbooks or compilations of materials out there to have in my classroom as a resource. Do you use anything like this? Would you recommend? For context: I teach theatre read more

A one act play called "The Wall" is pretty amazing! Sent from Gmail Mobile

I'm reading Kate Hamill's Pride and Prejudice with my students and am curious if any of you have directed it at the high school level? We have a class of 16 with 11 girls and 4 boys so P&P is a good fit gender-wise. All but one of my students seem excited about it, but I have one who is quite concerned read more

following this. Have some middle schoolers who need this.

I don't think that this is the play you are looking for but The Children's Hour has similar themes of words and consequences. I've also directed Gossip, but The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman moved me more - the ending is heart breaking. I think it is loosely based on a true story: https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1854 read more

Definitely has a similar sound as the play The Struggles. That one made our audience cry. It was powerful. It was a look inside a girl with dyslexia and ADD. It was one of those WOW gut punch stories. The same company (Pioneer Drama) has a show called Gossip. Makes the concept very tangible with read more