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"...above all, a work
for young people must not talk down to its audience, because they
can always tell. Kids are tougher than any theatre critic. They
will easily expose a playwright who doesn't deliver a story that
is tight as a trap but also lyrical, focused while being fast-moving,
believable but still fantastic, while it challenges them and makes
them question . . .."
Frumi Cohen
"The nervous system
of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And
if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment,
the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances,
sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness."
Tennessee Williams
"The health of a nation,
a society, can be determined by the art it demands. We have insisted
of television and our movies that they not have anything to do
with anything, that they be our never-never land; and if we demand
this same function of our live theatre, what will be left of the
visual-auditory arts -- save the dance (in which nobody talks)
and music (to which nobody listens)?"
Edward Albee
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 Internet
Resources for Drama and Theater
General Sites
Lesson Plans in Drama and Theater
Shakespeare for Students
Interactive Sites for Students
American Alliance for Theatre and Education
http://www.aate.com
Dramania
http://www.proteacher.com/cgi-bin/outsidesite.cgi?external=http://www.public.asu.edu/~atbrl/
dramania.html&original=http://www.proteacher.com/080010.shtml&title=Dramania!
Story Arts Online – using storytelling in the classroom
http://www.storyarts.org
Theatre History
http://www.theatrehistory.com
Reader’s Theatre Editions – Free
scripts for readers theatre ages 8-15
http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/RTE.html
PBS Changing Stages: A View of the Theatre of the 20th
Century
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/changingstages
PBS Masterpiece Theatre
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece
Children’s Creative Theatre - ThinkQuest
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/site_sum.html?lib_id=2636&team_id=5291
History of Stage Musicals
http://www.musicals101.com/erastage.htm
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The Drama Teacher’s Resource Room
http://www.sasktelwebsite.net/erachi
Drama Lesson Plans at Lesson Plan Central
http://lessonplancentral.com/lessons/Art/Drama/index.htm
Drama Lesson Plans
http://www.theatrelinks.com/lessons.htm
Drama Lesson Plans (Teach-Nology)
http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/arts/drama
Lesson Plans for Teachers - Theatre –
Collection of lesson plan sites
http://www.lessonplans4teachers.com/drama.php
Celebrating Sondheim – Teacher
Resource Page
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/exploring/mt/sondheim/artsedge.html
Creative Drama and Theatre Education Resource Site
http://www.creativedrama.com/
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Shakespeare Lite – ThinkQuest
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/site_sum.html?lib_id=856&team_id=23293
Shakespeare: Chill with Will – ThinkQuest
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/site_sum.html?lib_id=1014&team_id=19539
Plays for Children, Schools and Families
http://www.childrenstheatreplays.com
National Theatre of London – Links
for Kids
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/?lid=1705
Theatre History Web Sites
http://www.win.net/~kudzu/history.html
Shakespeare: Subject to Change – Multimedia, Cable
in the Classroom
http://www.ciconline.com/bdp1/000_home.asp
Lynch Multimedia: Shakespeare and Learning for Kids
http://www.lynchmultimedia.com/index2.html
PBS Dreaming Shakespeare
http://pbskids.org/lions/dreaming
Folger Shakespeare Library
http://www.folger.edu/Home_02B.html
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Sites for Students |
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Drama Mapping Activity – Read Write Think
http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/student_material.asp?id=12
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