Play Production for Secondary Teachers

Diane Howard, Ph.D

Class Schedule:

Week One- Educational Theater
Week Two- Judging, Managing U.I.L. Contests
Week Three- Short Plays
Week Four- Long Plays
Week Five- U.I.L. Set
Week Six- Auditioning
Week Seven- Blocking
Week Eight- Staging
Week Nine- Organizing a Production
Week Ten- Blocking/Directing Greek Theater
Week Eleven- Blocking/Directing Shakespeare
Week Twelve- Blocking/Directing 17th C. Comedy
Week Thirteen- Blocking Realism/Naturalism
Week Fourteen- Blocking Theater of the Absurd

• Students will practice and perform skills necessary preparing productions for the Texas secondary school competitions.
• Students will demonstrate knowledge needed for directing, managing, and judging and directing U.I.L. competitions.
• Students will prepare and turn in a notebook of notes, charts, and scenes from class.
• Students will prepare and produce a final directing in style lab:
  They will prepare scenes from the styles covered in class. They will  bring copies of a UIL-appropriate scenes from scripts from assigned styles. They will select performers in advance from within or outside of our class.  At the lab performance that is to be open to the public,
  they will guide their performers in read-throughs of the scenes. They will be prepared to guide their actors in appropriate acting styles for their scenes. They will then block and direct the scenes.
  Finally, they will present how they would use the UIL set pieces for their scenes.