Intro.

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IMPROVISATION PANTOMIME COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE: INTERNATIONAL:

UNIT HUMANITIES: MONOLOGUES:
Mask Work & Building on JAPANESE THEATRE:
UNDERSTANDING Introduction to Text Work
Character Development Exploring the Role of
ANCIENT GREEK
Theatre in Other Cultures
CIVILIZATION, GREEK
THEATRE & PLAY
ANALYSIS:
History & Analysis
Through ​Agatha Rex
Q1 ​Aug. Sept. Q2​ Oct. – Nov. Dec.
Timeline Q3​ Jan. – Mar. Q4 ​Apr. - May

What are the most
Guiding Question
essential, fundamental
skills we need to build in
order to be highly
successful in theatre
class?
Lesson Breakdown 1. Community building
activities
2. Intro to Improv/Rules
of Improvisation –
“Yes, And”
3. Physicality
4. Specificity
5. Spontaneity
6. Viola Spolin
7. Game Review
8. Knowledge Check:
Improvisation
What impact does How can mask work help us How can understanding
How can the breakdown of How can I effectively
exaggerated physicality to better create and the role of theatre in other
a dramatic structure better present a dramatic work in
have on theatrical develop characters? cultures enhance our own
enhance our front of an audience?
performance? performance skills?
understanding of the text?
1. Introduction to 1. History of Commedia 1. Vocal Development &
1. History of Japanese Noh
Pantomime/​Status dell’arte 1. Introduction to Technique
Theatre
Ancient Greek
2. Emotion/​Emotion Walks 2. The Art of Physical Civilization 2. What is a
Comedy 2. Kabuki
3. Gesture/​ Magic Clay 2. Guided research monologue?/Monologu
3. Shadow Puppetry e vs. Soliloquy
3. Exploration of Stock 3. Bunraku
4. Guided Pantomime Characters/How important presentations: impact
is the use of physicality in of the Greeks nm 3. Monologue Analysis
5. Through the Door 4. Bunraku Performance
Commedia dell’arte? 4. Antigone
Project
6. Pantomime overview/Greek 4. Objective & Obstacle
4. Commedia Mask Work
Practitioners Tragedy
5. Vocabulary & Parts of 5. Tactics
7. Slava’s Snow Show 5. Commedia Lazzi & Duets
the Stage
6.​ ​Commedia Scenarios 6. Agatha Rex​ reading 6. Workshop-style
8. Simple Action
Performance Showcase* and analysis rehearsal
9. Pair Pantomime 7. Understanding
Aristotle’s 6 Elements *7. Monologue Showcase
10. Silent Film Project of Drama
8. Understanding Mask
Work
9. The Role of the Greek
Chorus
10. Knowledge Check:
Vocabulary, Parts of
the Stage, & Aristotle
11. Agatha Rex
Performance Project