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Hi All!

I am looking for a shorter play to use for students to read, analyze, and direct scenes from.  Something like Almost Maine with 2-4 actors in each scene.  Any suggestions?

Also, my high school is across the street from one of our K-8 feeders.  I want to do more to continue to build a pipeline.  They just hired a theatre teacher at the K-8 building this year so I am hoping that helps.  I already do a middle school teaser for students for our musical and have my intro kids create and perform children's plays from children's books and present them in the elementary school classrooms.  Any other suggestions in terms of building your programs and increasing your enrollment from feeder schools would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

In my directing unit in theatre 1, I use Andre's Mother. It's a great little piece for four actors. It's only 2.5 pages and takes place after the funeral of a young gay man who died of AIDS. The title character has no lines but is onstage the whole time. I have the class read the piece, then get the class' input on how to set up basic set pieces onstage. Then we work through blocking it together. I get lots of suggestions and we work through trial and error to find what works. Every 20-30 minutes I swap out the four actors and we continue to work until we have a finished product.

After this I assign a group project with neutral scenes so that everyone directs two other people, and acts under the direction of two students. 

Hi All!

I am looking for a shorter play to use for students to read, analyze, and direct scenes from.  Something like Almost Maine with 2-4 actors in each scene.  Any suggestions?

Also, my high school is across the street from one of our K-8 feeders.  I want to do more to continue to build a pipeline.  They just hired a theatre teacher at the K-8 building this year so I am hoping that helps.  I already do a middle school teaser for students for our musical and have my intro kids create and perform children's plays from children's books and present them in the elementary school classrooms.  Any other suggestions in terms of building your programs and increasing your enrollment from feeder schools would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

I know it may be a little older script, but Feiffer's People still has some great short scenes as well as monologues.

In my directing unit in theatre 1, I use Andre's Mother. It's a great little piece for four actors. It's only 2.5 pages and takes place after the funeral of a young gay man who died of AIDS. The title character has no lines but is onstage the whole time. I have the class read the piece, then get the class' input on how to set up basic set pieces onstage. Then we work through blocking it together. I get lots of suggestions and we work through trial and error to find what works. Every 20-30 minutes I swap out the four actors and we continue to work until we have a finished product.

After this I assign a group project with neutral scenes so that everyone directs two other people, and acts under the direction of two students. 

Hi All!

I am looking for a shorter play to use for students to read, analyze, and direct scenes from.  Something like Almost Maine with 2-4 actors in each scene.  Any suggestions?

Also, my high school is across the street from one of our K-8 feeders.  I want to do more to continue to build a pipeline.  They just hired a theatre teacher at the K-8 building this year so I am hoping that helps.  I already do a middle school teaser for students for our musical and have my intro kids create and perform children's plays from children's books and present them in the elementary school classrooms.  Any other suggestions in terms of building your programs and increasing your enrollment from feeder schools would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Hi All!

I am looking for a shorter play to use for students to read, analyze, and direct scenes from.  Something like Almost Maine with 2-4 actors in each scene.  Any suggestions?

Also, my high school is across the street from one of our K-8 feeders.  I want to do more to continue to build a pipeline.  They just hired a theatre teacher at the K-8 building this year so I am hoping that helps.  I already do a middle school teaser for students for our musical and have my intro kids create and perform children's plays from children's books and present them in the elementary school classrooms.  Any other suggestions in terms of building your programs and increasing your enrollment from feeder schools would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Hi All!

I am looking for a shorter play to use for students to read, analyze, and direct scenes from.  Something like Almost Maine with 2-4 actors in each scene.  Any suggestions?

Also, my high school is across the street from one of our K-8 feeders.  I want to do more to continue to build a pipeline.  They just hired a theatre teacher at the K-8 building this year so I am hoping that helps.  I already do a middle school teaser for students for our musical and have my intro kids create and perform children's plays from children's books and present them in the elementary school classrooms.  Any other suggestions in terms of building your programs and increasing your enrollment from feeder schools would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Hi All!

I am looking for a shorter play to use for students to read, analyze, and direct scenes from.  Something like Almost Maine with 2-4 actors in each scene.  Any suggestions?

Also, my high school is across the street from one of our K-8 feeders.  I want to do more to continue to build a pipeline.  They just hired a theatre teacher at the K-8 building this year so I am hoping that helps.  I already do a middle school teaser for students for our musical and have my intro kids create and perform children's plays from children's books and present them in the elementary school classrooms.  Any other suggestions in terms of building your programs and increasing your enrollment from feeder schools would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!