Much to my surprise, I was able to navigate my introductory drama students through Oedipus, which seemed on-point for many students (ba dum tsss). I only taught it for two years, then switched to a speech/debate class and team, which did pretty well, but was not supported by the school, since I did not want to do endless bake sales (i.e.…
Much to my surprise, I was able to navigate my introductory drama students through Oedipus, which seemed on-point for many students (ba dum tsss). I only taught it for two years, then switched to a speech/debate class and team, which did pretty well, but was not supported by the school, since I did not want to do endless bake sales (i.e. fundraising) on top of the time and energy to build and manage a team. To answer your question, no favorite, but as I have heard said, a directors favorite production is always his current one. As a teacher, I tried to focus on essential acting skills, first, and foremost, then the content would present itself. Our first year, we did Bye Bye Birdie and the second year, we did Grease.
I was the proverbial high school jock, but got talked into participating in one school play, Archibald MacLeish's J.B. I was one of the comforters. Wish I had done more.
I confess I am not familiar with that particular play. Yes, I, too, was a jock in H.S., but gave it up for speech/debate, since I thought I wanted to be a lawyer.
Much to my surprise, I was able to navigate my introductory drama students through Oedipus, which seemed on-point for many students (ba dum tsss). I only taught it for two years, then switched to a speech/debate class and team, which did pretty well, but was not supported by the school, since I did not want to do endless bake sales (i.e. fundraising) on top of the time and energy to build and manage a team. To answer your question, no favorite, but as I have heard said, a directors favorite production is always his current one. As a teacher, I tried to focus on essential acting skills, first, and foremost, then the content would present itself. Our first year, we did Bye Bye Birdie and the second year, we did Grease.
I was the proverbial high school jock, but got talked into participating in one school play, Archibald MacLeish's J.B. I was one of the comforters. Wish I had done more.
I confess I am not familiar with that particular play. Yes, I, too, was a jock in H.S., but gave it up for speech/debate, since I thought I wanted to be a lawyer.